This past weekend I needed to go to another photography gallery. I was searching online for local galleries I could visit. And I found the Wild Rose Photography Gallery and visited the site on Saturday November 28th. After all, the past two exhibits I attended were what you I guess could call “well-known” artists. I wanted to see what the differences, if there were any, between these “well-known” artists compared to a diamond in the rough artists located in Escondido. I’m very sorry to say that I am disappointed. This Wild Rose Photography Gallery is nothing impressive at all. Photographs with decent imagery were paired with landscapes with a tint of oddly used infrared filters. To me, using infrared filters is like walking a very thin line between greatness and disaster. Unfortunately in this case, it was not impressive. Of course it was a gallery of landscapes with some floral, but nothing amazing, nothing great, nothing I would want to aspire to be. If anything, as bad as it sounds, I took away of mundane aspects of photography that I did not want to emulate. The landscapes had some cool lines, the floral photography had some cool close-ups, but once again, nothing that an amateur like myself could not replicated. I know it sounds cynical, but I want to be blown away by the color, composition, and subject matter by every photography I see. I know this is not possible with every gallery I visit. But I at least want to come away thinking to myself that the drive was at least worth it.
