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Old 25th September 2021, 08:21 AM
John King John King is offline
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Default Lost art? or not a requirement.

Have we, or others, lost the art, or is it because the digital do everything apart from fry a full English breakfast camera phone has taken over and people are quite content with squinting at a tiny screen in full colour and in 2 months deleting them all.

Another product of the 'I want it and I want it now' mentality. A family or friends picture printed onto paper by whatever method has far more value to me than any digital image from a phone. I have thousands of negatives, some going back as far as the late 1960's. They were of me, my friends and where I was and a reminder of what I was doing. Now they have true worth.

No it is not a lost art, it is a loss of a sense of values.

It has been said time and time again that more pictures are taken each year now than were ever taken in the 100 years of the 20th C, but current ones are lost, deleted or when the device fails, that's the end. Family, Friends and places recorded but not printed are lost for ever.

(I am in a grumpy mood this morning)

Last edited by John King; 25th September 2021 at 08:26 AM.
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