Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/30

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Subject: [Leica] The Culture of Photography
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 13:45:59 -0400
References: <CAH1UNJ3GvULx7F+NgeOSHbtq3OLa2v4W2QTaXvpnX6SqR+VzrA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ4y7gxZYihLjkiTnTv3A1cPQTK+-prEjSE3L3yoYO-qZQKcfw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ3Pgh7M-RT4j=f0SD2_Jwm7BrHMCRAPTpEe_r8veaSemNF_rg@mail.gmail.com>

Photography as a hobby is alive and well.  Photography as a profession is
no longer a possibility for most.

Tina


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> A retired photographer who made his living by supplying equipment to SF Bay
> area labs, and was very successful at it, had his business drop 80% in one
> year.  Ouch.  The disruptive technology that killed him was not the digital
> camera or internet, but the Canon color copier.
>
> Technological change tends to be exponential.  Scary.  Finding a secure job
> is not the same for my kids as it was for me.
>
> For a feel-good piece to offset the hard realities of the problems of
> change, I recommend this:
>
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/photography_as_art__a_lifelong_passion.shtml
> .
>
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>
>
> 2014-05-30 9:45 GMT-07:00 Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>:
>
> > Yep.
> >
> > TFS.
> >
> > --Bob
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-30 11:14 GMT-05:00 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>:
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/05/culture.html
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jayanand
> > >
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-- 
Tina Manley
http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com


In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] The Culture of Photography)
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