Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 10/8/2001 12:23:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, skid@... 
writes:

<< I remember once, when I had just done a limited edition portfolio of (B&W 
silver prints) of flowers.  It was
 part of a collaboration with a garden designer (we were doing a book 
together...It was never published).
 Anyway, I went to one of his gardens, that he had designed for one of his 
'rich ladies', to photograph a
 particular plant.  This woman, whose garden it was, said that she was 
completely overwhelmed by the beauty of
 the flower prints in the portfolio, and wondered why her photos didn't look 
like mine...After all, she used
 the same camera and film that I did.  Well...after a while, we went out to 
the garden (which was
 breathtaking), and I start to shoot.  All of a sudden, she got this 
wonderful smile on her face, and she said:
 "I've figured it out!  You use a *tripod*...That's it!" (A true story) >>
That's unbelievable it reminds me of another story I heard;
A woman is at a dinner party and the host, upon hearing that her guest was a 
photographer, asked if she had any pictures with her. The photographer did, 
so she showed them to her host, who upon seeing them exclaimed how beautiful 
they were, and that she must have a really great camera. The photographer 
just smiled and said nothing. At the end of the evening, as the guests were 
preparing to leave, the photographer thanked the host, mentioned that the 
dinner was simply marvelous, and that the host must have a really great set 
of pots and pans.
George J Kunze