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PS...if you are thinking of selling stock photos, consider that the market is pretty flooded with people wanting to do the same thing and the prices stock photos from some sites are commanding are ridiculously cheap. Just be forewarned before you shell out a small fortune.

I agonized about this when I was still shooting 35mm and was contemplating the move to a larger format (before the digital evolution took hold). Even now, I think you will end up paying a premium for using MF gear and a significant weight penalty. I'm not sure if publishers expect digital these days (likely I would imagine) so there would be the additional costs of having them scanned (probably drum scanned = spendy). You might consider spending you money on one of the high end digital SLR's instead, which rival the 645 format for quality. If you are just talking magazine reproductions, I don't think there's any reason for having more resolution than that. With a high end digital, you could still make good sized blow-ups for prints to sell. Art Wolfe uses digital Canons so you might go look at some of his color prints and ask yourself if the print quality is what *you* (not he or his customers) are looking for. Personally, I shoot 4x5 and have a lightweight non-folding camera. But, I have only like 4 lenses and whereas in 35mm I used to have 8 (and they are more expensive ... but less expensive than MF lenses). Anyway, just my thoughts. YMMV. Lots of things to think about, I know. Good luck. If you don't know about them, here are some good sites: www.luminous-landscape.com (used to be analog, but now heavily digital) www.apug.org (all film based photography forum) www.largeformatphotography.info (4x5 and up)

You could name all the episodes in this Fortunately, I can't name one....

At Zappos Good range of sizes.

Exactly.

O! O! O! You know what I'm talkin' about...

I would desperately LOVE to hear anyone in DC publically suggest that. Oh, the collective aneurysm that would cause....

Personally, I'm glad when I wake up every morning and don't find myself the proud owner of a cot in a UN refugee camp. I find it keeps my sense of entitlement to a minimum.

Sounds like we'd better ban gay marriages and flag burning before things get out of hand!....

I'm sensing a lot of pent up anger in that post.

I read some study about this. If you overmanage their lives, they tend to show a lack of creativity and lack the will to DO something without someone telling them to (of course, that may sound like your average teenager, regardless of the era). Not exactly the American working man ideal ...

The weird thing is, when I think of all the people I've known who've gotten mugged in this country, they are all the type of person who walks around in fear with a look of 'Please don't mug me' on their face. This would happen to them anywhere, I reckon.

Maybe you could send a note to all the mom's and dad's out there and let their kids walk to school and generally screw around outside getting some exercise instead of managing their time with 'activities'. That and maybe let them ride the bus to school or ride their bikes. I've had my fill of almost getting t-boned by hurried parents who feel they ALL have to drive little Bratleigh and Snotleigh to school.

I don't know, what does your analyst think?

I remember reading once that most child abuductions occurred within families (e.g. someone disagreeing with custody decisions, etc). If people didn't start marrying and breeding right out of high school, maybe we'd see less of that.

they're also not making any more fresh water, filled aquifers, and oily goo. once the Post-Petroleum Die-Off occurs, there'll be plenty o' land freed up.

never run into it before, but there's some little bug in icicle canyon that'll chew your ass up but good and you won't even feel it while asleep. and i'm not talking ticks. feels like i've been bitten by spiders and worked over by a team of sand fleas.

I didn't realize it took two years to get to Tacoma, just to rob tax payers blind. I hope you didn't forget your Snidely Whiplash costume. Translation: "With less than a month to go, it's very clear to us that the city and state officials are not showing us the free sacks of money we feel we deserve." We paid some Olympia lobbyist $200 million dollars to write us a report. D'oh! So, Howard, which part of the whole political process don't you understand? The part about not always getting your own way?

I'm glad I don't live in that town anymore....

Some of you need to represent

How do you say "Cover our asses" in Arabic?

Actually, the vast majority of "non-MD doctors" (otherwise known as PhD's) almost never use their "Dr." titles, especially not in professional journals. The only time I think "we" do tend to use it is in official correspondence of some sort (where using it tends to get the author more attention than they otherwise might get, e.g. writing to the bank or to some official) or if they are writing for a more general audience and it is a means of establishing some sort of credibilty to the reader who may not be familiar with the authors curriculum vitae. That said, it IS an earned degree and often requires as much if not more effort to obtain than your average MD. Thus, they are perfectly within their rights to refer to themselves as 'Dr.' So, if you don't want refer to PhD recipients as "Dr.", you might also leave off referring to your family physician as such as well. Lord knows, I've seen a fair few of them nearly fail organic chem or squeak by with a 'C' and only then by buggering everyone elses labs. Question: Is your disdain for the Dr title only reserved for the individual in question, whose views and politics you despise, or do we all get to share in it? If Dr. Joe Trickledown (of the Cato Institute) was always referred to in the press with his title, would you be so disparaging? Just a thought.

I don't think out-climbing me is that big of an accomplishment.

Red Beckey.....sounds like the name of a beer.....

Sounds like they are begging for jobs in some conservative 'think' tank.