Mark's Pages

January 22, 2005:

That the best of them convey motion: a cloud sweeping, a moon rising. That the combination of motion and rich color form an accomplished personal style, not in a league with Ansel Adams yet nevertheless polished and emotional and effective. That her pictures, taken in the same places at the same times, aren't as strong, including the ones she took with your camera. That a labor of more than two years went into researching the tools, from the camera to the lenses to the custom tone curves to the type of post-processing that would best enable the specific results you sought. That real effort went into the best of them, from finding the angle to finding the moment to fighting her for the emotional space and sometimes even the physical space to make the shot.

That this has held you back half a lifetime.

That you will no longer agree under any circumstances to have your accomplishments denigrated by anyone.