Many years ago, CA State Univ turned down Ansel's offer to donate his archives. Do you suppose they are sorry enough over that decision to accept mine?
Jack --- On Mon, 10/6/08, Joseph McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Joseph McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Philosophy > To: pdml@pdml.net > Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 4:58 PM > Donate everything to either "your" University, or > to the archives of > the town you spend the most productive time in > (photographically) or > throw it all in a box and ship it to the Smithsonian. Let > them throw > it out! :-) > > But don't do it until you're given only months to > live. > > Accidental death is not your concern. > > Joseph McAllister > Pentaxian > > On Oct 6, 2008, at 16:52 , Jack Davis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I always take a studied look at everything I shoot > immediately upon > > processing/downloading. I learned a long time ago not > to throw > > things out because of an initial feeling my > expectations were not > > meant. I've sometimes found that the image stands > on its own when > > I'm further from the moment. > > BTW, at what point can you bring yourself to throw out > thousand of > > envelopes of prints/negatives/slides/CD's that > you're certain will > > never again be tussled through? > > I consider it a kindness not to leave the job and its > attendant > > guilt to my survivors. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
