October 23, 2007
Photography: Smithsonian's Nature’s Best 2006
more images of nature collected by the Smithsonian Museum http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/natures%5Fbest%5F2006/gallery/index.html
~How soon until these 2006 photographs begin to look obsolete? How does that happen? Who knew photographs had a 'shelf-life' a 'freshness code'. It depends on the technology not the subject matter?
Nature's Best images are an exotic animal or locale, a professional photographer and lab and a staff of magazine editors away from anyone who can afford a visit to the Smithsonian Museum or the price of a magazine. Why would anyone bother with the view from one's window or the living creatures one might see around one's town, when most every natural thing pales in comparison?
Posted by Stubbornson at October 23, 2007 08:07 PM