Sadly, they weren't mine. The prints were by Fine Art landscape photographer Peter Lik and purchased by an unnamed private collector. One print sold for a world record $6.5M sticker price, the two other prints comparative bargains at $2.4M and $1.1M. Peter Lik, normally garners a mixed reception from photographer comments online, some of the kinder ones are 'marketing genius' and the negative comments are fairly extensive in breadth and depth of critique. I can confidently predict, the print sale will generate a fairly lively discussion in the worlds news media, art forums, photography forums, peanut galleries ...
The good news, aside from Peter Lik's healthy bank balance and the announcement a mere fortnight before Xmas never a bad time to raise your profile as a seller, is that it will raise the profile of landscape photography and perhaps somewhere there might be an intelligent discussion on the craft of landscape photography as Fine Art.
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