Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "JackG" <jackg@p...> 
wrote:

> "There is a gesture in those roadside offers - the short red 
school bus, the
> $1,100 pickup - that I can't help admiring. At first they look like 
pure
> dismissal, a way of unloading disused pieces of equipment or 
making a little
> extra money on stuff that was just lying around anyway. But they 
are really
> invitations. They show a confidence in the passer-by and in 
time. Someone
> will park on the shoulder and take a slow walk around that feed 
wagon,
> perhaps even crawl underneath it to check the running gear. 
Maybe not soon.
> But when it happens, the doorbell will ring or the dogs will 
bark. A
> stranger will present himself, someone from farther up the 
road, across the
> ridge, down the valley. The price was firm once, back when the 
wagon was
> new, a price anyone could understand. But now the wagon 
belongs to a
> different economy, which is as much a matter of tact and 
understanding as it
> is dollars and cents. It's a matter of knowing what things that 
have lost or
> long outlived their prices are really worth, stranger to stranger, 
neighbor
> to neighbor"
> 
> Happy New Year to everyone,
> 
> John in OKC


Hey John,
I´m only a German and my English is clumsy, but I have got the 
impression: you seem to be a writer. So what the hell are you 
doing on a photographers web-site??
Bernd