Well.. firstly.. my reasons for the peice:

I was browsing dA a lot today, more-so than usual. I saw hundreds of works from loads of different artists.
Now, before I say this, and I say it with care, some of the stuff submitted to deviantART is just so pointlessly crap. People submit works with anything in it like 'oh ill take a picture of building, and it's art!'. It's just annoying.
However, yes, some artists feel this is their way of putting themselves across to the world, and they spend time doing it, and yes, sometimes its alright.. but, I just felt the need to say that I do not believe this to be art.

I feel that art is something else, composition, colour, light, beauty, yes they all contribute, and many conventional artists will say that all of these placed in to one peice is ART. I don't think this is the case either.. art is something you see of beauty in an object, or a scene or and animal, and it is how you capture that moment, the picture could be in black and white, sepia, or over-saturated, its the moment that you capture that is the art, it is the momento, the memory, the actual object/animal/scene etc.. that you capture that MAKES the art.

So i ask you to look around dA at some of the submissions, and sometimes what you are about to submit, or have submitted. Do this and ask yourselves...

ART?

Nick