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I don't photograph cities because I want to show their beauty or anything like that. Often people who see my cityscapes use them to critique the urban environment and its planning and development, and that's often the whole point of the photos to begin with. So it would be a slap in the face to landscape photographers who travel to beautiful and faraway locations awaiting the sunrise and sunset, right place, right time, while someone like me just walks out of their front door or hotel room, wrong place, wrong time, and gets the same attention. Or I photograph random people on the street while others thoughtfully photograph people in a studio with a carefully chosen subject and lighting.
Standards are important, and giving cityscape and street photos the same treatment as nature, landscape, and portrait photos would be sending the wrong message to the wider art and photography community. Photography as a whole is often not considered art to begin with, and so drawing attention away from the beauty of landscape, nature, and portraits would only make it more difficult for people to take photography seriously as a medium.
Likewise, I won't post my abstract photos here expecting the same attention given to majestic or exotic landscape photos of New Zealand or Iceland. I am grateful there is even a forum section for abstracts at all. That is already better than any other photography forum so it would be stupid demand more or expect more.
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