In reply to Mark Bull:
> Don't reckon it would get many votes on here!
Nope.
But, bearing in mind that I did this thread recently
Modern Art is rubbish?
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=481670
I can see some artistic merit in this photo.
I'll try and explain.
The photographer has turned the Rhine - a 766 mile long, organic, powerful, gigantic, unstoppable mass of water, life, industry, business, energy, that has carved it's place in history of the countryside through which it flows - into what is an apparently abstract simple geometric pattern of lines and colours, but is also a fairly regimented pattern, too.
It takes all the power, all the energy, all the fluidity, all the life, all the history, all the mass and all the total wetness out of it, and shows it in a form where none of that is apparent.
He's nullified the Rhine, almost completely.
I'm certainly not going to argue that it's "worth" £2.7m, as that is ridiculous. It does have some artistic "value" though, as I see it, as it has - to my eyes - turned the Rhine into a geometric abstract.
It would be better if it was in B&W though!