Fine Art Photography to Me?

If you look up "Fine Art" here's what you get. "Creative art, visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content."

So what does that mean? To me, it means a photographer can modify an image the way Ansel Adams transformed his images in the dark room. Compare that with an automotive or wildlife image that may be taken for a magazine. That has more of a journalistic purpose.

I want my photos to be appreciated for the way they look. So with Fine Art Photography, anything goes just as with the two images below, the original and finished.

I've always wanted to do a drag racing image that showed movement and action close up. You can just imagine the sound of a dragster at the point the butterflies are cracked open sucking massive amounts of air, and the power is laid down.  Meet "Deep Throat" This is a new image that is available printed on photographic paper, available in several sizes on my website at this link: https://www.johnstraubimageworks.com/p175506786

Out of camera...

Finished image...