www.johnwhorne.com
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when a camera is not in my hand, a pencil, a brush or a keyboard usually is. lover of all things nikon, moore's drawings/sculptures, waterhouse's paintings, parrish's watercolors, rodin, shiele's drawings, loreena and all music
celtic, rock, jazz, big band, eclectic, indie, euro, alternative.
(e-music RULES!)

adopted 'person' to: boscoe, nell & true
www.johnwhorne.com
danceartist.deviantart.com/

when a camera is not in my hand, a pencil, a brush or a keyboard usually is. lover of all things nikon, moore's drawings/sculptures, waterhouse's paintings, parrish's watercolors, rodin, shiele's drawings, loreena and all music
celtic, rock, jazz, big band, eclectic, indie, euro, alternative.
(e-music RULES!)
adopted 'person' to emmitt, boscoe, rudy, tess & nell!

Nikon F2
Nikon D70
Nikon 50mm 1:1.4 (manual)
Nikon 50mm 1:1.8AF D
Nikkor 100-300mm 1:5.6
Nikon 35-80mm 1:4-5.6 D
Nikkor 35-105mm 1:3.5-4.5 AF
Do Not Own, Do Not Use Flash attachments of ANY sort at any time!

i decided when i was in school that if i saw something i really liked & wanted to shoot that it made no sense to
change the outcome with a flash. i chose to use film and lenses that would compensate for those places that were
traditionally 'challenged' or 'too dark'.
i shoot & create from the point of view: it feels right.
far from the technical, tho' the techniques need be pure & accurate, i am not one to get caught up in that morass, and i teach art the very same way. this 'holistic' approach works for me, and apparently for my students, so well that i am continually surprised that others do not use it. oh well, perhaps i am just too simple minded, truth be told, worse things could be said about my me or my work. at least it provokes a response, good or bad, it needs to present a premise that requires a reaction - that is the goal of art ....... but honestly i don't worry about that much either, just create, photo, write what 'feels' appropriate to me at the time.

maybe that is why my work cannot be revisited. you cannot remake what you have made - it will never be the same, the feeling, inner attitude, zone of the artist changes as does the subject. i think that is the real difference between crafts and art. don't get me wrong - i love much of the work that will be classified as crafts, but it is not fine or high art. simply because for a work to 'qualify' as fine art it requires elements from the artist - if you can find the way to imbue a part of yourself into your work you have made the plateau. whereas if you are 'going thru the numbers' regardless of medium, it is craft. so wood, clay, pencil, stone, acrylic, oil, pastel works can reside in either camp - it has nothing
to do with the medium and less to do with the subject. the difference is resides with what the artist brings to & leaves within the project.