There's a Plenty

Here is the season when families get together to celebrate Christmas. A time when some will return home to visit the folks. For me that' would be going back to the country. Fresh air, big sky, and lots of peace and quiet. The image of a country home is iconic to America. I'm grateful to live in a country where land is plentiful and beautiful.

The land of photography is plentiful as well. Recently, photography Peter Lik sold his image "Phantom" for 6.5 million at auction setting a record for a photographic fine art sale. Peter is receiving a lot of negative feedback about his image not being art, and some have gone as far as stating that landscape images is not fine art.

The Artsy folks think Peter needs to be playing in their sand-pile as Mr. Lik creates his own.  He has no images in major galleries, and they go on to say that he has no official ties to the sanctioned photography community. Well,  I guess he doesn't need it.

Today it's nearly impossible to succeed in Fine Art Photography through traditional means, i.e., gallery, etc. Ironically the two most successful American Fine Art Photographers I know about are Peter Lik and Alain Briot. Neither of which are sanctioned by the photography community.

Peter Lik is an immigrant that comes to America and falls in love with the Landscape and makes a life of photographing it. He engineers a career creating and selling stunning photos while innovating technology and exercising marketing mastery.

This record breaking sale inspires me. The message for me is, if you know what you want, you find a way to get it, and "There's a Plenty".

David is a NC based photographer. Please subscribe.