Hi Bob...
-> > Why?
-> 
-> Because we didn't have YOU here to do it right!  

Watch it mister....we have fresh snow here! 
-> 
-> We had to work with pre-ordained space allotments, column
-> width and inches in depth, meaning to compose to fit what advertising was
-> running for a particular edition.  Information of that sort came down from
-> the composing room, daily. 

That's interesting.  Around here they seem to gather the news, pictures and
ads and then fit the stuff into the pages. The editor, of course, sometimes
uses his "scissors", to shorten articles or resize photos. As far as I can
see, it's the ads that take precedence.  It's not as bad as it used to be,
but when I questioned that years ago, they told me that without ads there
could be no paper.  It told them that without news, nobody would bother
buying it, so the ads wouldn't be seen anyway.  I would not have bought
that paper back then myself.  I got it free because I wrote for it.  To
this day, more than twenty years later, I'm still getting it for free.  I'd
buy it now though, it they pulled that plug.
-> 
-> >On one occasion, when
-> > some big event was happening here, three of us were issued film by
-> mistake.
-> > The publisher was not thrilled,
-> 
-> Sounds like his budget was tighter than a new pair of shoes!  Heck, film
-> bought in bulk should be quite inexpensive so two extra rolls wouldn't make
-> much of a spash.  

It was more like 5 rolls of film and that was just for one event.  Budget
or not, that's excessive.  But hey, the editor can't say he had nothing to
choose from, eh. 
-> 
-> > ..but I was as I was thrilled to discover
-> > they printed more of my pictures than they did of those taken by the other
-> > two...official photographer included.  It was only after that that I
-> became
-> > more interested in photography than writing.
-> 
-> There are scads of semi-competent people holding down jobs of all sorts so
-> it isn't surprising that photogs are included, too!  

Was there an insult in there somewhere?  Sounds like you didn't think I
could get a better picture unless the guy was incompetent.  Ah, but I'll
consider the source, and the grin, and believe you really didn't mean it
quite the way it came out. :)
-> 
-> > Shooting what other people want has never been my idea of fun.
-> 
-> True, but it enables us to do a lot more of the kind of work we really want
-> to do, and still pay the rent plus eat regularly, too

Luckily, I'm a kept woman  :)

Karen
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