He he oh no I assure you I am not dogma my snapz !! I think its great if this subject can be debated sensibly and yeah we do need to think about this very important aspect as we move into the digital age. Hell I want us all to be creative and have no strong views about using digital effects outside of the camera I do it often I just happen to think that there are more than one platform to exhibit this work and can find nothing wrong with the term digital photographic art or whatever rather than call it photography if the effects or whatever are used where it looks like a photographic image then OK. Whenever these effects are used be it with a camera or scanner some very creative images can be produced many scannings as exhibited in Computer Arts Mag for instance are in many ways superior to what can be accomplished in a camera in the first place and the way technolgy progresses these images are making photography as we know it redundant. Perhaps the term photography is no longer applicable to the new digital age and we need to look at what term we use when we think about all of the ways it is now possible to produce images.

Danny O'Byrne  http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt