Thank you for the Tice link, Dave. Though I am famliar with his name, not really deeply so with his work, I'm ashamed to admit.
However, it does make me think how life can be with photographers. Whilst doing it as a job, success was measured by how well one was staying alive and/or meeting some personal peaks of ambition or failing to do so. Later, business over and times and circumstances totally different, the little fire still burns, but in a different colour and thrives and powers on a different gas.
There's a sense of satisfaction that can be found after a shoot, however mundane, when the pics are first seen on the monitor. No longer is there a serious appraisal of how well or otherwise one has followed the requirements that declare the status of the work, but an open and almost detached look at what's there, and a totally new dimension: into what can I turn these things?
And that, I am forced to admit, slightly grudgingly, is entirely because of digital.
The reality is that but for digital, with and/or without its limitations and differences, I couldn't be photographing today.
Rob
