Hi, Sunday, March 2, 2003, 11:34:28 PM, you wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2003 at 10:18, William Robb wrote: >> Some thoughts (mine only) on craftsmanship though. A craftsman can >> produce something from raw material with skill and little waste. In the >> woodshop, that means not making bad cuts that cause you to waste that piece of >> wood and start again. In the darkroom, that means being able to pull a good >> print without going through a dozen sheets of paper to get there. > I think that you'd do best keeping that definition of a crafts person to > yourself. Its referring to skill, not waste or speed. As an example a crafts > person might use 4 trees to produce one small rocking chair and take two years > to do it. My grandfather told me that every match in a box of Swan Vestas is hand-carved from a single tree. That's craftsmanship. --- Bob "The only joy in photography is geometry. All the rest is sentiment" -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
