[Leica] Will to Live

[etruscello at yahoo.com (Thomas Pastorello)]

No offence Tom but this kind of stuff, positive as I
am about digital I find crushingly disheartening. It
takes out my will to live. Although I hate 
to overstate things. I hope your D2 has gone on to a
better afterlife with a new master.

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon


Mark --
   The last thing I want to do is diminish your will
to live.  On all things photographic I admire your
wisdom as well as your work.  In spite of my love of
the process, I moved out of the darkroom to better
meet my vision of what the final product should be.  I
feel like a hypocrite saying this because I've often
told my students that life is best lived as a process
-- a journey to be savored, not a destination to be
reached.  Yet, for me beauty is part of life's meaning
and I get closer to a beautiful product digitally than
chemically.  You are a darkroom artist.  You are
blessed to be able to relish the journey and be fully
rewarded at your destination.  This should enhance
your will to live, while I struggle to find that will 
on life's side roads to meaning.     Tom



	
		
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