Well I must say it sounds like a job(s) that we all (most)take quite seriously. what a life! being a photographer, having a free bar and top grub on demand. I cant think of a better combination, except maybe converting the loft into a house of ill repute. Photography my not be the best job in the world, but I think it comes pretty close. its a shame that it all gets bogged down in having to make it pay for mortgages and kids etc.. I am just about to get my first digi camera so I am looking forward to the simplicity it will bring(sarcasm) if its that easy I should have done it ages ago. having rented for so long I thought it was time to take the plunge, sounds a bit like the bar stool I sit at .. rented too long... any one know a decent pub for sale, preferably with a big attic and restaurant. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Childs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:04 PM Subject: [PRODIG] A Sunday Musing - Digital Photography - it's soooooooooooo easy!
> > Hi all > > Having first passed this note via list mom and following a number of > comments that my musings have got a bit thin of late - here is one to think > on. > > Following recent postings of the technicalities and complexities of digital > photography, I hope you will accept this posting as a light hearted thought > bringing together a real situation where those outside the box believe > photography is so easy, compared to those who once inside the box, suddenly > find it very complicated! > > Recently, we were invited to an 'olde worlde' pub in deepest Norfolk, > Eastern England, to sample the restaurant of the new owners who had only > been in charge for three months. Finding out we were photographers, it > wasn't long before the publican and his partner engaged us in conversation > on - guess what - digital photography. > > His partner has made a very successful career as a consultant for a number > of well known companies in the food industry and also has a degree in > photography. Indeed, not to be out done by stories of my travels around the > globe she recounted that she had been in South America recently on a > culinary programme. So you are giving it all up to run this pub I asked? Oh > no! came the reply. I will do both jobs at the same time. > > Then it was the turn of the man of the house. It turns out that he was a > very clever IT guy for a multi-national corporation and along with his > partner and being in his fifties, decided it was time to give it all up and > run a pub in the country. Clever or foolish, I wasn't sure, so I politely > opted for the former, until he announced that he had also enrolled for an > HND course in digital photography at a very well known college of > photography. Oh, I said, you are developing a hobby as well then. > > No, he said, I am going to take up photography professionally. You know, do > a bit of photo-journalism, landscape work, a bit of fashion and of course > sell images through a library. > > So you see, photography is so unbelievably easy that you can, with no > knowledge at all, be an instant success whilst running a pub and a > restaurant as well. It think it is called being ambidextrous, to carry pints > in one hand, focus a camera with the other and check the histogram with your > foot. > > Why didn't I think of this before? Why do you guys on this list have so much > trouble understanding the complexities and technicalities of digital > photography in all it shapes and forms? For heavens sake! All you have to do > is to take a course in running a pub and digital photography is laid bare > before you. > > The mind simply boggles at the number of people who think that what ever > they have done in the past, their goal is to end their lives being an > outdated David Bailey. I am beginning to believe that there is a correlation > between photography and the lottery. There are many who think that the > digital world is a passport to instant riches for very little effort - and > all it needs is that momentary spark of genius, like putting six numbers > down on a card. > > Maybe things were not going as smoothly as they should, when the drinks > order arrived wrong, and the food sat on the plates going cold, whilst we > frantically tried catch someone's eye to say we needed ironmongery to pick > it up with. Still, fingers came before knives and forks. > > In the meantime I have enrolled at medical school to become a brain surgeon, > so that I have a subject to take photographs of at the same time. > > Yours jaundiced, but with kindest regards to you all. > > Norman > > Norman Childs > > Mobile: +44(0)7831 519217 > Tel: +44(0)1256 767611 > Fax: +44(0)1256 767612 > Website: http://www.greenshoots.co.uk > > > =============================================================== > GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE > =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
