Some Photographs Sell For Huge Amounts Of Money,

I am thinking of say the American flag being raised on the top of a mountain in the Second World War, iconic image's,

but the one above I have to say does nothing for me, especially as it was digitally made taking out any intrusive features – dog walkers, cyclists, a factory building, till the bleak landscape was achieved, so it was with some surprise that I read this computer enhanced photo went for, wait for it, $4.3m (£2.7m) at a Christie's auction in New York, setting a new world record for a photograph,



is it worth the money? it is a arty type of thing I suppose, incidentally the picture was taken and digitally enhanced by German artist Andreas Gursky, it is called Rhine II, so if you missed this one perhaps Rhine 1 is still out there, now here's a thought you could commission Rhine III!

moving on to a picture that maybe billions have seen, the Microsoft's XP background picture taken by former National Geographic magazine photographer Chuck O’Rear, he was so entranced by the green of the grass and the white clouds in the perfectly blue California sky that he pulled over and got out his camera and took the shot, although the 69-year-old photographer signed a confidentiality agreement so he can’t say how much he got paid – it is reportedly the second most expensive photo licence ever purchased, I wonder what the first one was? but back to the question of 'touching up' pictures digitally, when does a picture cease to be a photograph but become a digital computing exercise?



I have to say that all the pictures we post on the blog are 99% as they come out of the camera, the odd one we crop out some of the background and that is it, no tricks, colour enhancing or manipulation, now if any one wants to use one of our shots in a commercial way let us know!