Unloved in Newport Beach...

... and now underappreciated in Scotland. What is going on here? I may have to go and do some illegitimate sunsets at Laguna, or maybe some drive-by architectural shots in LA... or... my mind is swimming in deep revenge. I know, I'll bop on over to YouTube and listen/watch this.... that's how they treat us now. Sheesh, I remember a time when photographers were respected, looked up to even... now its gone, gone, gone.

Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Watson snaps on photo centre: "ONE of the world's leading celebrity photographers has attacked the Scottish Executive over delays to plans to transform the former Royal High School into Scotland's national photography centre.

Edinburgh-born Albert Watson fears civil servants are more keen to see the venture in Glasgow and that it would be a mistake if Edinburgh lost out on the project.

He has agreed to donate part of his huge collection to the project, but fears it could become a political football between the two cities. Watson says Edinburgh has a cast-iron case because of its capital city status, its museums and galleries, and links with photography.

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson - widely recognised as the founding fathers of modern photography because of their pioneering work in the 1840s - developed their skills at Rock House, a studio at Calton Hill.

Watson has entered the fray on the issue on the eve of the first solo exhibition"

Oh hell... you knew I would post this, didn't ya?