I recently posted this image, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater , in my gallery. I have to warn you before looking, this is a dark version of the rhyme and is a bit bloody. I've been doing a series of Dark Tales and Twisted Rhymes in my gallery and they are a bit morbid.

Anyway, I was tickled by the wonderful coments I received on this series and especially on Peter. They've been very encouraging and I really appreciate the response. Then someone wrote this about the Peter image:

"That's really sick humor, sorry someone has to say this-but this is pretty sick."

I felt stunned when I read this. At first I thought it was meant to be a joke, but the more I read it, the more I understood it not to be. I felt as if this person was attacking me. It made me want to shrink into a corner as if I had posted some sleezy porn. I admit the image is morbid as is the humor in it. Call it dark, call it grotesque, call it black, call it grim or twisted, but sick?

You can see a pair female legs in fetsh boots, a hint of stain, and a bit of pumpkin in the thumbnail of the image, and it's clearly marked as containing violence. So it's not like you don't get a warning that this is not a pinup image. I don't mind that he didn't like the subject matter of the image, but I don't see the point in posting a rude remark. It certainly wasn't any kind of constructive criticism.

I took a peek at the gallery of the person that posted the image. The person is talented. This person seems to like to do scantily clad women, often large breasted, pinup type images. Who the hell is he to pass judgement and insinuate that I am some kind of sick person for having a sense of humor that he doesn't appreciate. If he had something to say about my lighting or posing or a way to improve the image it would have been fine. Why not just say that my technique was good but the subject matter wasn't his cup of tea would have been ok. But to just post a snide remark because he didn't approve of the subject matter serves no purpose except to be insulting.

I'm not going to ask the mods to remove the comment. I'm not like that. All I ask is that everyone stop and think when they are commenting on an image. If what you have to say is not constructive, helpful, or encouraging and serves no purpose but to cast judgement or be insulting...better to not say anything at all.

It's all fun and games...
Until the flying monkeys attack!!!