There's something romantic about hauling out the old Sinar 4x5 P-Expert kit and the 50lb tripod, loading another 20 lbs of film-holders and piling it all into the jeep in search of the lost landscape.... Ansel's images filled me with awe over 25 years ago. I thought he was too good to be from this planet. I lived, slept and dreamed the zone system for years. I taught it with such enthusism too. I'd spend whole weekends in the darkroom without sleep and love it Now I look at those same images and find that I've grown out of them. I've moved on. I don't know when it happened... But I now look at half of Ansel's and 70% of my work from the 70's and 80's and ... YAWN. They're still a part of me and I apprreciate all they gave me, but I don't know if I want to go back there. Herschel Mair Head of the Department of Photography, Higher College of Technology Muscat Sultanate of Oman Adobe Certified instructor + (986) 99899 673 www.herschelmair.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
