I’ve been called out on some blog I had not heard of before for a comment that I never made. The comment was apparently left by someone else named Sean, but the link provided goes to a blogger profile that is not mine. While I didn’t leave the comment, I’m certainly in agreement with it and feel badly that I didn’t think of it first.

I’m not interested in debating the global warming aspects of this post. Either you’re intelligent enough to follow and understand the math presented at climateaudit.org, or you’re not.

What irks me is the following:

Wow a nature photographer who is also anti-environmentalist. What an interesting contrast, I wonder how he reconciles that?

I’m not a nature photographer. I am a fine-art photographer who occasionally includes what could be called nature photographs in my oeuvre. No reconciliation is necessary.

One of the recurring themes in my work is the ephemeral nature of man’s presence on this planet. It doesn’t take too many walks through the prairies where I live to realize just how easily man’s accomplishments are reabsorbed into the earth. Pioneer homesteads collapse and rot. Stone buildings crumble. Metal vehicles and equipment rust into nothingness. Nature will triumph and erase all our works, good and bad, save for the odd trace left to be found by whatever species replaces us long after we’re gone.

So I’m not worried about climate change or any other kind of change. If nature can be described in a single word, that word is “change”. My job is to preserve slices of time in photographic amber, to capture them before the change comes upon them and they’re gone forever. I’m not documenting nature, I’m documenting the present and attempting to hide it away from nature. This is obviously a far cry from nature photography. [spit]

The person who made this judgment evidently didn’t look very hard at my work or make any effort at understanding it.