(Yes, I know it is not a rose. I don't know what it is, but I do know it is not a rose.)
Would smell as sweet. To Romeo it made no difference if one was a Montague or a Capulet. In today’s photography the digital divide has created different words for what is captured by the camera. Images are the virtual manifestation of a scene captured by a digital camera. Photographs remain an artifact, a physical manifestation of a scene captured by a camera. The terminology seems a bit picky but I think it represents the change of photography from the physical to the virtual realm.
I used to process my negatives. Now I have a workflow for my digital files. I used to file my negatives in a box. I still have files, but they are digital files. I store them in an archive on redundant disc drives. I could go on, but there is more than a trend here.
I have no problem with this expansion of the photographic vocabulary. Its precision helps clearly define what we experience and what we create. It’s something else we need to keep track of as we continue the Creative Journey.
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