Amen! There was a cute article in my local newspaper
yesterday aobut how in North America one of the biggest selling
series of books is the "Dummies" line. Started years ago with
titles such as "Dos for Dummies" or Wordperfect for Dummies"
and now includes everything form "Sex for Dummies" to
cooking, stamp collecting, etc.
The whole point of the article is hopw in today's society
people do not want things to be difficult, everybody wants everythign to
seem easy. No sense of taking a long time to learn a craft. I've been
in the darkroom for 15 plus years now,a nd I am still learning, still not
happy that I have reached my maximun potential. I still toss out
more prints than I keep.
I am just startign to dable in and learn about the alt-process,
and if it takes me another 15 years to master one particular form, so be it.
Isn't that perhaps one reason many people are here - a sort of mini -revolt
against the "press one button and let the computer think for you" society
we seem to live in today?
joe
http://www.multiboard.com/~joneil
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