Teach what you know

Great postproduction. Most of the images, including this one, are manipulated in Ps and/or other commercially available soft wares, which is fine. We live in a digital world. I, for example, use Photomatix, Ps, Lr and many other soft wares whether the effect I want is Photorealistic or Hyper-Real HDR in my images...However, I always make sure to mention what medium I have used, if ever, in post-processing. It would be unfair to other photographers who will despair to capture such a shot that is impossible with any kind of camera in the market or those only available for scientific off-market-high-tech NASA gizmos. Most enthusiast soon will give up (witnessing it quite often) as a result of feeling not good enough for this. The problem with photography information and knowledge, as in every field of art and science, is that it is fractional, incomplete and scattered about every which way; in books, magazines, biased minds, up, down, right, left… Knowledge is out there, but not everyone knows how or able to get it. It’s our responsibility, we artists, to guide novice as we were guided by those before us. To teach what you know is an art, but to hide what you know will only burry you from within. Nobody can be you, and you cannot be anybody. If Ansel Adams, Warhol and Picasso had told us all the secrets and knowledge they had possessed could we be ONE?