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My name is Joshua Hopkins.

My email is nikanon@mac.com

"I have a question for you... Do you have a microwave oven?

Well, then, if you have a microwave (and you probably do) then why don't you throw away your stove? Why don't you just take your prepackaged, frozen meals out of the freezer, pop them into the microwave oven and have your dinner, hot and ready, in 3 minutes?

Sure, I could do that but I prefer to cook my own dinners. I like to pick my own ingredients. I like to vary the recipe depending on my own desires of the moment. I want to be able to add some extra spices if I want. If I ate microwave dinners instead, I'd eat the same thing as everybody else and I would have very little latitude in varying the recipe. What latitude I do have is limited to things I don't like to do, anyway.

Of course, I eat microwave dinners. There are times when I just need a fast meal. I'm hungry and I don't have time to cook. Microwave dinners aren't bad, per se. They just aren't good to eat all of the time.

The analogy works the same: Digital cameras == Microwave dinners.

And, of course, I have a digital camera. There are times when I just need a fast picture and I don't have time to "cook." Digital pictures aren't bad, per se. They just aren't good to take pictures with all of the time."

-Randy S. (username Worker 11811 on Apug.org)




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"I like having something to hold in my hand," McCurry said. "With digital photography, it's just a hard drive. With Kodachrome, the film is real. You can touch it, put it in a drawer, and come back to it later. It's tangible. It's an object. With digital, the pictures only exist in a hard drive, in a memory chip." - Steve McCurry

Read more: www.kansas.com/2010/07/14/1403115/last-kodachrome-roll-pr...

"Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality....Well, observe that you never heard that accusation in defense of innocence, but always in defense of guilt. You never hear it said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you always hear it said by a rotter about those who treat him as a rotter, those who don't feel sympathy for the evil he's committed or for the pain he suffers as a consequence. Well, its true-that is what I do not feel. But those who feel it, feel nothing for any quality of human greatness, for any person or action that deserves admiration, approval, esteem... You'll find that its one or the other. Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. Ask yourself which, of the two, are the unfeeling persons. And then you'll see what motive is the opposite of charity... Justice" - Ayn Rand


"Mr. Mortensen says that the work of the purist lacks subjective interest. Either he must be unobservant, or he is unfamiliar with the work. Photography is an objective medium, true enough, but the most objective photograph is capable of arousing a profound subjective reaction in the mind of the spectator." - Willard Van Dyke

"Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technic, composition, or idea, derivative of any other art-form. The production of the "pictorialists", on the other hand, indicates a devotion to principals of art which are directly related to painting and the graphic arts. The members of Group F64 believe that photography as an art-form, must develop along lines defined by the actualities and limitations of the photographic medium, and must always remain independent of ideological conventions of art and aesthetics that are reminiscent of a period and culture antedating the growth of the medium itself." - Group F64

"Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smokestacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole - which is life. Life rhythms, felt in no matter what, become symbols of the whole. The creative force in man recognizes and records - with the medium most suitable to him, to the object of the moment - these rhythms, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts by acquired rule results in sterile inventory. To see the thing itself is essential; the quintessence revealed direct, without the fog of impressionism, the casual noting of transitory or superficial phase. This then; to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Signifigant representation, not interpretation. I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned, complete in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure. The shutters release, which automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the print, which is but a duplication of all that i saw and felt through my camera." - Edward Weston