Welcome to the 29th Edition ****
of
Last Week in the Gallery 2009

Be sure to visit the full collage with integrated links

HERE

**Yet another week of great photography from the members here at Renderosity.

Congrats to all who were selected !!
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Thanks for including one of my images, I am honoured to be featured, and many congrats to all the artists selected,  and many thanks to the team for their hard work and good work on the production Bruce!

Kudos to all the selectees this week -- great shots all and good work to the folks behind the scenes!

Thanks for choosing one of my fotos-- I'm honored to be with so many  great people--thanks also to the staff for the great work you do!!

Fantastic work this week, guys! Thank you very much for including my image.

Wowww ... what a great collection!  Lots of variety, and mostly shots I had been awed by during the week.  Congrats to the photographers, and thanks to the staff for putting this together!

Many thanks for selecting my pic this week - I am truly honoured and was not in the slightest expecting it.  I mereley uploaded it as a sentiment rather than because of quality so this is a really nice surprise and has put a small smile on my face this morning.
Thanks again to you all for the hard work you do in bringing this to us each week.
Hugs xx

excellent collection of photo art and i had the pleasure of viewing them, I may not have commented on them but i did have a good look. congrats to all and keep up the art of the camera.

Why do I allways smile each time this happens? :-)
Thanx Operators for the selection and thanx to all others for viewing, commanting & favs
Congrats to all selectees!
Thom

Fantastic selection of great art Bruce and the team!!! As always you guys have done a stellar job!

Congrats to all the wonderful artist recognized here... You are truly deservant. Well done!!

Hugs, Carin xx

Another fab week showing off a lot of talent. What more can be said? :)

Another collection af fine art work, congrats. to each selected. Thanks again to the staff for all your hard work, you guys do a great job!!

I really loved the diversity in work and I am enjoying watching the development of new styles and styles being perfected. This collage is a shining example of truly exemplary work.

Excellent selections !!  Congratulations to ALL, and thanks to the team for all their hard work.

All very nice and well done. However, I have to say that there comes a point that a manipulated photo becomes a graphic.  I feel there are a few here that cross that line.  Just my observation with 2 cents added. 

If a camera was used it's a photo in my opinion no matter how harsh the manipulation ;-)

**Congrats to all the photographers that were selected!

Kudos to the staff for there fine efforts!**

Quote - If a camera was used it's a photo in my opinion no matter how harsh the manipulation ;-)

Exactly, your opinion.  As a photographer and graphic artist, there is a difference between the two.  They do need to be judged on their own merits, separately.  Photography is photography, and graphic artistry is graphic artistry.  They should be separate. I have taken classes in art, graphics, graphical arts, Photoshop, and photography.  There is a difference to all the instructors I have ever taken a class with.  Photography here is really not showing the merits of photography, but how much manipulation to a digital image can be made.  I still object to classing them all together this way, when there is a 2D section here, and photo manipulation section.

I see there is a discussion about what is photography. Perhaps this could continue as a new thread in the Photography Forum. I think it could be a very good and interesting discussion and probably receive more coverage and opinions there than here. Maybe someone would like to open that discussion in the forum?

I used the search for a photography forum, and guess this is it.  Here are the guidelines, and several of those images do not fit the guidelines, so what are they doing here?  The issue at hand has been bolded by myself in these:

Please read the following guidelines before uploading image to the Photography Gallery

 Please review the thumbnail guidelines before uploading and images that contain nudity and or violence
**The Photography Gallery is for original photographs ONLY
** Do not upload images you “found” on the internet
If you are NOT the photographer but have permission to upload a photo, please choose the snapshot gallery
If you are using stock photo’s for manipulations, please choose the mixed medium gallery
If your image contains non-photographic elements, please choose the mixed medium gallery
If your image is processed to the point where it no-longer resembles a photograph, please choose the 2D Gallery

Yes, this is the forum but you can start a new thread. At the top of this page, just above the Subject line, it asks what you'd like to do. Click on  New Thread. then you can start that discussion and ask everyone to join in. Last Week in the Gallery is not really the place for this discussion. It's to view those selected for recognition.

Congratulation to all !My favorite 3 of 30 are:
The Network by timtripp
Dobro by pushinfaders
Warning......by beachzz
Greetings.............................Wojtek