Originally posted by Ray:

Aaron:
I still fail to see how you know plenty about etiquette; I've yet to say that, because you don't like artwork of the human form, you are somehow less of a person than anyone else.. The opposite of that has certainly been made clear on how you feel. I am a dirty mouthed, dirty minded person because I interpret the human form as anything other than disgusting, or demoralizing. Duly noted. Stating things like, "filling your mind with smut", "Garbage in, Garbage out", "they are nothing but a private moment shared between he and his wife that he is now demoralizing others with.", and my personal favorite, "I don't understand why anybody would even PRETEND to post slutty pictures of his/her spouse." I fail to see where you were NOT personal about this.




Don't take my statements out of context. If the pictures aren't okay to post directly on CEG or from a photo hosting site such as www.fototime.com, then they are a little racier than I would prefer to see. Hence my comments. Again, the personal aspect of this comes because these are your pictures we were talking about.

On top of that, I didn't say that you are a dirty mouthed dirty minded person because of the way you interpret the human form...I in fact stated that the more you take in that is immoral in form can taint your mind as to how you look at the body. When posting pictures like you are alluding to, you most likely, are turning this into a "look at Ray's hot wife" post instead of "look at the artistic aspect of this shot of my wife" post.

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You, as someone who admittedly states you don't see the hoopla in this artistic method, pass judgement; not only on ME/my wife(for doing this in the first place), but also on work that I have invested a good deal of time, effort, money, and heart in to. It is art. That is the smallest sentence I can state.. It.. is... art. Whether you like it, think its repulsive, or just don't get it, it is still art.

Ray



If you don't like criticism, then keep your pictures off the board. I didn't judge you or your wife. Again, I already told you I haven't seen the pictures and don't hope to. And in all honesty, you can spend as much time, effort, and money on your artwork. It's your business. You brought it into this open forum though, making it everybody's business. I never slammed you or your wife for artistic expression, but rather let you know that I can't stand people who would parade around naked for the enjoyment of others. It doesn't make sense and is not art in my opinion.

And like you said, I can let things go under the bridge, but I will not change my response to issues like this.

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