heres a copy of the letter my cousin sent to them..good on him!
Dear Sir,
I stumbled across the Angels With Attitude site here:
angelswithattitude.faithweb.com/photo.html
At first I thought it was some kind of joke site, a competition to see who could airbrush the life out of their childrens' photos and make them look like plastic dolls. Seriously. I'm not saying this to deride you. I really did. Then I thought it may have been an extreme retouching excercise with the children as haples victims..
Can you believe how horrified I was when I read the rules?
"Will be judged on facial beauty, expression & fashion, and overall appeal of photo. These should be professional pictures, but should not be extremely or overly retouched. (We are judging the child - not the retoucher!) "
How can you say this, and consistently vote to the top pictures which are so grotesquely painted over? Skin has no features whatsoever, eyes are blue-white and in many cases, obviously made larger by the photo retouching program. Eyelashes are obviously fake or airbrushed, the tear ducts of most of these children seem to be nonexistent. The retouching job on most of these photos is so extreme it would look out of place in some tacky mens magazine, fashion spread, or even animated movie. Yet you still ignore your own rules and allow them to win?
Shame on you.
I wish to enter this simple photograph of my daugher, Lucy. In the appropriate category.
She is 9 months old on this photograph. it has NOT been retouched, airbrushed, painted, mangled, manipulated or otherwise had the life ripped out of it by any overzealous wannabe cartoon editor.
It is a 'professional' photo in so far as I am a semi-professional photographer, and it was taken with a professional camera by myself.
Peter.