Miley Cyrus Link Bait

I just finished reading an article on webpronews.com titled, "This Article is Miley Cyrus Link Bait," astutely penned by Jason Lee Miller, and I have to say that this Jason cat is right on the freakin' money!

Everyone from Vanity Fair to Disney to Billy Ray to Annie to the media (ESPECIALLY the media) ought to be ashamed of themselves! They all colluded, in one way or another, in selling a (very) marginally provocative photograph of a 15-year-old girl as out-n-out smut for the sake of commercialism.

Personally, I don't have much empathy for the girl. She'll be crying all the way to the bank for years to come. What really bothers me is the way this kind of shit further empowers the already overly-empowered morality police. Especially the way it directs them at photographers and certain genres of photography. (Of which I am a regular practitioner.)

The pretty girl photo at the top is Lexi from last week. I gave it a B&W treatment cuz I was feeling a tad on the artsy side tonight-- perhaps a by-product of those two chili dogs I wolfed down? I lit Lexi with a 32" silver Larson "reflectasol" hex umbrella, a small soft box boomed from behind her, and I took advantage of some sunlight pouring in from a white, tranluscent skylight above her. MUA was Melissa.