Critique
What a lovely day it is here; it’s the toadflax end of summer now. The bee eaters and hoopoes have flown south but the sun is beating down and the sky’s the colour of a cornflower. Just perfect. It’s not the sort of day you’d want to spend inside a gallery but galleries do crop up in today’s chat. And that’s kind of inevitable whenever you discuss art. Especially art with a capItal A. Ever happy to put my head above the parapets, I’m going to layout ideas on how we might critique nature photography, why it’s not taken seriously by the galleries and why some, at least, I think should be.
As always, I’d love it if you’d share your ideas on this topic, below. Oh and, please, help us along the way , would you, with a review and a rating, ideally a 5 star one. It all helps other folks to discover our place down by the stream.
The plagiarised barn owl photograph
Steve McCurry Afghan Girl story
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November 8, 2025