[Rick Mullin]

In a sense I should recuse myself, primarily on the basis of my previously stated thinking that we should have a separate critique area for photography, which is utterly different from painting, drawing, music, dance, drama, and cinema. And from poetry.

That said, I don't know what is gained over a straightforward, especially black and white, photograph when you get into all the compu-futz. What you have shown us are truly horses of a different color. But why are they a different color? When Der Blaue Reiter painters picked their emblem and moniker, they were looking to a painting in which color defined a world in a way in which photography cannot. It wasn't a push-button definition.