"I would challenge you to create your OWN statue, place it in any position you see fit, and take a picture of it. I would be much more impressed."

Sorry, the logic of this statement is completely lost on me.... following your suggestion, then we should make anything that we photograph that is designed or made by someone else, just to get the photographs we want?  Can you say that you have EVER done that for any of your photographs? 

Can you say that you discredit  every picture of something man-made because the photographer did not make the subject?  If so, then you are true to your statement but very narrow minded and missing out on a lot of good work - if not, then your statement is inherently hypocritical, is it not?

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