Perhaps not anymore.
Over half a century has passed since the great Ansel Adams used to wander in the Yosemite Valley with his pick-up truck carrying his beloved and bulky accordion camera on its tripod. His masterworks of ‘pure’ photography are unique even today – just look at them!
However in these many decades photography has become quite another thing.
Today it begins after the click: it’s entirely digital. You can transform the image by changing sky, light and colors, sharpening or defocusing, adding people to the front with just a pinch of digital magic – people that never saw that beautiful landscape with their own eyes. There are tons of apps to choose from, some of them really great.
But – call me a traditionalist if you wish – I believe that in spite of that ‘real’ photography is still alive and kicking. The photos of my gallery here are good natural shots – though sometimes drastically moved back in time by turning them black and white. I like them very much and I think they could tell something to you too.

And still – why not to explore and master other technologies as well, to recreate the feeling of real painting? Or to create something new and subtly different to hang in the living room, by daring use several tools the traditional painter wouldn’t even consider.
I’m not thinking of photos overpainted with digital brush strokes to recreate a dull portraiture, as so many self-proclaimed artists use to. I’m thinking rather of works as rich, vibrant and bold as the traditional art, but with something different and intriguing.

The computer is just a TOOL

Many people could be very critical hearing about art created digitally by computer.
I suppose that also at Gutenberg times something like that might have happened (“printing instead of writing manually with difficulty and patience, Oh what times! ”) or when writers begun writing novels on the PC instead of on the typewriter… not to mention quill and ink.
As far as I’m concerned to me the computer is just a brush (well, perhaps a little more complicated), but a tool is a tool is a tool, the art comes out of my hands 🙂
Feel free to have a tour and enjoy yourself!