Formaly good artistically Meh

So last night while I was search for photographers I ran across another gentleman who had his stuff at photo.net. Because I was short on time and his images were attractive I decided to bookmark the page so that when I went to write this blog about his work I would know exactly were to find it. However looking over his work this morning I decided it really wasn't anything that great. So the question I ended up asking myself is why I bookmarked him in the first place. Granted I was in a rush the day I did it but there were also allot of other artists that I skipped over that day. I finally came to the conclusion that the reason I bookmarked him was because of the formal qualities of his images. Almost all of his images were perfect in terms of image quality. They were perfectly cropped and lighted as well as lacking in anything negative such as color casts or dust. However with them being perfect they just weren't interesting. I had seen these images before time and time again by other artists and because of this when I actually started looking at the images instead of just skimming over them they were not able to hold my interest. I'm not sure if this is because I'm an art student or because they are the same old type of images however this showed me the power of both a well printed image and the importance of a artistic subject. Without a quality print a viewer would never know there was art to be had and would just skim over the images. On the other hand without an artistic subject matter their is nothing to keep the viewers interest. Yes it might attract them however it wont keep them becasue there is nothing to stimulate the mind. The key is to create the best of both worlds. To make something that is both artistically interesting and formally appealing.