While I would hardly consider my response to your ...

2006-11-25T20:34:00.000Z

While I would hardly consider my response to your "creepy photographer" post to be "flaming." I like to think I expressed my view in a level-headed and respectful manner. It may not have been a view you particularly wanted to *hear* but it was hardly "flamimg."

As I said before, I would hope that your husband's experience with the camera club [much documented in this very blog] would serve as a cautionary against judging other photographers [and models] out of hand. It would be easy for someone like myself, Don Nelson or your husband to say "well I'm not like those other photographers," but in the end we do ourselves a disservice by doing so: We simply enable those forces who would like to see *all* of us dissappear by giving them a foothold in the overall discourse...a foothold we cannot allow those negative forces to have.

I routinely defend photogaphers whose work i don't care for, because my personal preference shouldn't be the deciding factor in the validity of anyone else's art.

If you find a certain photographer "creepy" all well and good: Refrain from working with him, block his email, etc. But as I've said numerous times, *all* photographers who do what we do have *someone* who thinks they're "creepy" -- What would you feel reading another model's blog only to find your *married* to a "creepy photographer"?

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While I would hardly consider my response to your ...