When you can create landscapes from anywhere on earth ... on your tabletop? Money quote from artist Didier Massard:
Several years ago, I was involved in landscape photography. There were many places in the world where I’d never gone that I wished to photograph. I realized that they would not at all look like the images I had of them. Reality was different from my imagination. So I started building and photographing in a studio what I had in mind.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/12/why-travel/222504/
