Patricia,
I appreciate your appreciation...
Peter
Et moi aussi, Patricia!
How's life these days? Mine moves, stops, turns around and makes sure that I'm still here and paying attention to it. I've come to another of those Damascene on-the-road moments: I have stopped caring about technique pretty much completely - I just go play and hope for the best, and that serendipitous moment when what I'd hoped to find might actually have been there to some degree. Better, I often think I might be seeing something as a possiblity, snap it, and then find that moment of truth later on in the computer's head, a moment where I find not what I'd hoped, but something quite else. That's a pretty huge advance from the pro days, when what I hoped to get had pretty damned well better
be there!
You know, it all makes me feel so sad for those still trapped in the impossible search for that technical advance that will give them that one missing link to great pictures. There is no missing link. All that was needed was found decades and decades ago; it's what you do with what you already happen to have, that's the secret. Nothing to do with money, brands, nor anything else so deceitfully tempting. Nothing I do today, for better or for worse, I couldn't have shot with my very first Exakta Varex back in the 50s. Only difference: I can do it on digital and save money that I certainly wouldn't be spending on film!
Anyone not believe me? Just look at Ernst Haas' pictures on film; Saul Leiter's too.
Rob
