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Biliana,

 

Thank you for illustrating my point about your obsession so clearly.

 

Do I need to answer any of your further questions? A fool can ask more questions than a thousand wise men can answer, as an old Chinese saying goes. Ah, what the heck, I'll give you some. I'm not in a bad mood.

 

- I don't know Marcus in any other way than from the information that can be found here on Photo.net. He has not asked me anything. As said: I felt that I should come to his aid, even if he wouldn't think he would need it. I explained my reasons. I don't care what country you are from and what protocol for asking one's help you have there. I solely act upon what I consider plain humanism.

 

- It seems you can't read. You did *covertly* accuse Marcus of pedophilia. What if you hadn't known Ellen is his daughter? Where's the exact distinction from someone else's daughter if it comes to exploitation? Marcus did not want to reveal how he was related to the girl, nor how the image was conceived. He wanted us to look for the photographic qualities of the picture. Unbiased. I did and I just saw a very beautiful portrait. Nothing less, nothing more. Especially nothing more. I really wonder what those warped fantasies about "exploitation" come from.

 

- So now I am the sick man who enjoys looking at naked little girls? Biliana, you are so predictable in you craze. Are you really that stupid? If this picture would have shown a boy, a man or a grandma, could it not have been just as beautiful? I'm enjoying the photograph. Maybe I would enjoy the girl herself as well if I knew her. But I don't.

 

 

I think I'm going to shoot some stark naked girls soon. Well under age and definately not my own. And then I will print them large and hang them on the wall to enjoy them. No, I won't post them here. Sorry Biliana, for taking such a golden opportunity to pick on someone away from you.

Biliana, I am a frequent visitor of Photo.net. This is a public place. Your choice has been to write to Marcus in this public place where I am reading too. If you wanted to keep it between you and him you could have emailed him directly, but you didn't. I was enjoying Marcus' photos, but the comments from several people about his "controversial" choices disturbed my enjoyment a lot. I very much disagreed with them. Despite that fact I kept silent because people have the right to have their own opinion and I don't think it's always needed to fight every opinion that differs from mine. Until I saw your comments in about every place where the naked shoulders of a child were shown. That really, really upset me a lot. This was no longer discussing Marcus' pictures, but simply harrassing him. When people are being harrassed in public, most of the time bystanders don't act. Well, I was raised differently by my loving parents. They taught me to come to people's aid, especially if they aren't given a fair chance to defend themselves. In this world it is impossible for people to defend themselves against accusations of pedophilia, even if they are completely innocent. There is always a certain group of people that gets beyond any reason if this word is being used. In covered words you are accusing Marcus with that horrible label. Doing so is very foul play. Whatever he says to that, his reasoning will be dismissed as the words from a predator or something like that. Marcus deserves to be able to continue to work the way he was doing. I feel it to be my duty to defend him. So here I am, stepping between you - the harrasser - and Marcus, your (presumably innocent) victim. Back off!

 

(Why is it that these self-proclaimed child-protection activists always think they hold the patent to the one and only just morality, even if it results in a totally distorted view at the world around them? Signing with the word "peace" while you started a fight is not only completely inapropriate, but it also shows a striking specimen of self-righteousness.)

Biliana, get a life! Why do you need to troll this portfolio with your poisonous comments each time you see the uncovered shoulders of a child? Can't you see that this girl's personality only comes out stronger because shee feels entirely at ease, despite the fact that she is not clothed? Does Marcus really have to give you any explanation for his choice, while the picture itself explains his reasons very obviously? It is about time that you offer your apologies to him for smearing your nasty slander over his fantastic images, thus possibly hindering him in his further development as a great portrait photographer. Or does it turn you on to feel the power to break a thing of beauty down to discussions about your own perverted mind?