I just find it angering and hurtful when I was proud of some of those shots, to get onto a forum and find these idiots mentioning how flat they are, yet ignoring anything good in them. That is what I got...flat! What about the rest, it is like people have to find something to fault before they will comment on something. It has to be absolutely perfect to get a 'wow' or a 'great'.but if it is a little short of perfect, it gets shot down.
And for me to dare to post images of myself nude, considerng my longterm issues with my body..and then have another female come and describe it as a lowering of myself... surely there is a line between art and smut? I just see the lines, curves and shapes, the shadows and the light when I shoot my body. That is my aim, to create symmetry, not smut.