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Re: [OM] IMG: Baalbek and Roman Ruins - Bob

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Baalbek and Roman Ruins - Bob
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:58:45 +0100
Where can I buy the follow the wise guy xxl t-shirt ;-)

I-could-have-written-what-you-have thankful Philippe


Le 17 févr. 14 à 18:00, Bob Whitmire a écrit :

> I have adopted a semi-Buddhist attitude toward this. I don’t care.  
> My images exist for the pleasure I derive from creating and  
> processing them. Second to that is the pleasure others derive from  
> looking at them. The key word is “second”.
>
> Whether my images survive is not my concern, nor will it be. When  
> I’m gone, they most likely will be gone shortly thereafter, except  
> among those who have purchased or been given prints.
>
> If my house burns down tomorrow, I’ll probably lose them all. I  
> don’t care. I’ll just start over. Or not. Sure, I can’t duplicate  
> existing images, but it doesn’t matter. Everything is insured,  
> though, so at the very least I can take the money and go lie on a  
> beach somewhere in the South Seas and tell myself, “That would make  
> a nice photo. Too bad I don’t have a camera anymore.”
>
> Upstairs, I’ve got boxes of photos from various ancestors that,  
> while interesting, are essentially meaningless because anyone  
> capable of identifying the people pictured has long since returned  
> to dust. Some of them are good pictures, from a photographic point  
> of view, and I have enjoyed looking at them. But I know that  
> eventually, someone is not going to be willing to store them anymore  
> and out they’ll go.
>
> If I take images of my as-yet-unborn grandchild, I’ll be sure to  
> print the best ones on the best archival materials I can find or  
> afford. Then this whole process can move forward a couple of  
> generations. But it won’t matter to me.
>
> Nothing lasts forever.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Feb 17, 2014, at 11:12 AM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I do not read very much anywhere about the issue of image
>> permanency from this time forward.
>
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