Mores change, concepts change, "traditions" change. I guess we just acknowledge it and move on. 7/3/04 1:15:26 PM, Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This seems so...small-minded. Mean-spirited. Something like that. > >Hear hear! > > >> Don't you think your photos can stand out on their own? >Well, side by side yes. >Joe public (the technophile majority at least) are so obsessed with >the speed and technology of the instant result that by the time the >prints are ready, even a week later, they are old hat. Frankly >quality is not the biggest factor: for today's generation. > >So if you can get your prints out by the end of the "service" straight >from your inkjet ... sure they will be better. But aunt maud does not >give a stuff. She's there to show off her new camera/printer combo. >It's indeed getting to the stage where there are so many wannbee >photographers in the audience there are no pure participants left to >photograph [thinks: is it just n >me or do others hate seeing wedding guests holding cameras in the >formal photos? ]. > > >Personally, I just don't take my camera to anywhere I want to attend >as a guest: I'd rather just take part. > >Bob > >
