I guess I'm an old dog. (Well, I'm only 44 so it's not the years but it's
the mileage:-)) and I have been burned many times. Back in the 70s when I
first got into this, I was flying half way around the world to look for
answers and experts. I found them about half the time. In some cases it was
disastrous... I remember one case where this gentleman passed himself off
as an expert with a certain photographic process. I wanted to see one of
his prints, or at least slides of his work before committing myself to one
of his expensive workshops. I would have been glad to pay for shipping and
handling but there were always some excuse, like the prints were tied up at
some exhibition or they were too large to mail, "seconds" could not do
justice to the real work, etc. I was told I had to take one of his
workshops and fly there to see his work. Eventually, I did. The minute I
saw his first print I realized I had blown a week of my time and about
$1500, for nothing:-( I guess this was just part of the tuition fee
pioneers have to pay when going through a learning process:-(
Today, of course, we have the Internet and offlist correspondence, so this
sort of situation would have no need to happen;-)
Luis Nadeau
awef6t@mi.net
http://www.micronet.fr/~deriencg/nadeau.html
"months in the lab, will save you hours at the library..."