Re: OK to have fun/color

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I can think of several very fine photographers who work fluently in color:  
Jay Maisel, the late Ernst Haas, Joel Meyorwitz, Arthur Meyerson, Jack  
Dykinga, Bernie Imes, David Doubilet, Richard Misrach, Joyce Tenneson, sam  
Abell, Jodi Cobb, William Albert Allard, Sandy Skoglund, these are names off  
the top of my head. Color is harder to master, paradoxically because of how  
easy it use as a crutch (to paraphrase Elliot Erwitt  "seen any stuning black  
&white sunsets recently?") and also because it is so easy to just accept  
color but really it is no less abstract than monochrome. (BTW if you tone  
your images are they still black & white? What about split toning?)  The  
modern day Ansel Adams color work has been so overworked PhotoShopped to  
"restore"  them that we have to take AA's decision to not show them during  
his lifetime as his comment on their original quality.