[The Lizard of Oz]

Great post!

The reason is just what you'd think -- most photographers are f'ing terrible. They have neither the interest in conveying the most accurate and informative representation of a place, nor the skill to do so if they wanted to.

It doesn't help that the higher level photography world, like many other artistic worlds, is dominated by gay men and females. Gays can be skilled but they are mincing and tight and are often more interested in creating a certain kind of impression than in conveying information. And women often have no idea about what the hell they're doing. Heterosexual men are often found only on lower rungs of this world and their skills are correspondingly low-level.

This is why that thread about Peter Hurley, the "squinching" photographer who posted youtube videos about some tricks used to get good head shots, was so exceptionally fine -- a rare example of a heterosexual dude skilled in this stuff at the very highest level, and able to communicate his knowledge clearly and eloquently.