If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
