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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hap Newsom" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: Tomatos & Cameras

Hi, Hap!

> >
> Hokey Smokes! I'd be looking in the newspaper to see if there were any
folks
> selling stuff! I'd be going to garage sales...just to see if they had a
> garden I could buy from!
>
> > Actually, there is a 'farmer's market' that opens a couple of days a
week

> >
> > The daily paper has stopped running pictures of all the family turmoil
for
> > survivors of those who have been killed -- many being innocent
bystanders
> > hit by stray bullets from rival gangs.  The recent news on TV showing a
> > cab driver being robbed and beaten is just the tip of the iceberg..
> > That area has been a trouble spot for years.  Several hundred people
> > there every weekend ..play their car stereos wide open and drink, use
> > dope, and block a US Highway so motorists have to go around it.  The
only
> > reason the cab driver episode got filmed was because some of the people
> > there had camcorders to photograph the teen girls stripping and dancing
on
> > the top of cars, which also is a weekly passtime for the low life trash

>
> Certainly sounds like you've got a bad situation there Bob! You must be
> thinking about moving to a better area!

Where I am was one of the last sections of town that hadn't been turned into
another ghetto, but that was in the mid eighties when I returned here from
Atlanta.  Now there are only the high priced home owner neighborhoods where
dwellings start at half a million and up that have no such problems.  We
middle
class folks have to put up with whatever the government forces on us, and
yet
try to maintain a work ethic lifestyle.

> Have you been doing any photo stuff lately?

You bet!  And as the weather gets better there will be a LOT more.  I now
run
150 gigs on the hard drives and have five printers laboring off three
computers.

Digital cameras are really very nice.  I do miss all the fun darkroom stuff
from
film processing to printing my own color and doing my own slide processing,
but without the digitals and computers I would not be doing any photography
at all.  Getting processing done locally is a nightmare.  The custom labs
ruin more
film than they do right at times, and too often at that.  The only way to
get decent
stuff done, farmed out, is by sending it to Missouri or Texas.

Presently I enjoy doing my darkroom work on a keyboard.  If you know how to
do it the old way, doing it with computers is easier.  In many cases it is
better.
A 16x20 print film transparency is a tad out of reach but the routine stuff
including
retouching, color and density corrections, cropping, etc. are all faster and
much
preferable done the digital way. 

BobD
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> hap
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