Digital BW, The Print

Fabulous quote, James!  I too have been a lurker off and on (in my
case for quite some time).  It's great to have something humorous to
chew on now and then.  Thanks for not being a purveyor of high flown
rhapsodies! I do appreciate both, though - otherwise I wouldn't have
been such a longterm lurker.  I just get weary of not having anything
much to say while I slowly get used to technologies for which I don't
quite have adequate time.
Chris
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, James Zall
<jzall@r...> wrote:
> Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, writing about the members of the London
> Photographic Society, in 1857:
> 
> "The very talk of these photographic members is unlike that of any other
> men, either of business or pleasure. Their style is made up of the
driest
> facts, the longest words, the most high-flown rhapsodies. Slight
> improvements in processes, and slight varieties in conclusions, are
> discussed as if they involved the welfare of mankind. They seek each
> other's sympathy, and they resent each other's interference, with an
ardour
> of expression at variance with all the sobrieties of business and the
> habits of reserve..."
> 
> [from Classic Essays on Photography, ed. by Alan Trachtenberg]
> 
> 
> I've learned a lot from the people on this list. Thanks.
> 
> Jim Zall
> lurker