Artist Reply: Betty, I always like it when people say my photographs look like paintings. It makes me feel that the quality of light and atmosphere approach the blurring zone between reality and created reality. I have seen paintings that look like photographs but once I see they are paintings it is usually anticlimactic. I think it's better to mistake a photograph for a painting than the other way round. But I will say that many of your paintings would make beautiful photographs if one could capture that same quality of light on film or digital chip. I guess with the software these days, anything is possible.