I think digital cameras are a grotesque scam. While my new Panasonic Lumix FZ18 is a simple thing to use, and the 28-500mm zoom range is amazing, it just doesn't offer the compositional ease and fine control that my Bronica ETR gives me. Not to mention the excellent color of film, versus the crap color of digital; that is the final straw -- there is no comparison between optical and digital color when printing... It is like comparing a pricey cold whore to a hot free lass who wants you for who you are and not for your cash... Oh well, the Japs just have to make us consume something new, I guess. Just be happy you are buying cameras and not guns like the dumb amerikens... ha...

Anyway, I have two tons of medium format negatives to get scanned, but it costs more to scan them than get them developed... It costs six times less to develop negs and prints in Taipei than Vancouver, medium format that is... Ha, aha. A good reason not to go home, I guess. I have these great big huge posters of my girlfriend Janelle in a g-string crawling on the beach and standing in the sun. Huge blow-ups of wonderful wild-flowers and beach vistas... None scanned, alas. I will have to find a way to get it done... Maybe next week... Nobody will look at them even if I upload them anyway...

Well, like, life is good if you believe it to be... But I'd rather write a novel in the sweet sea-breeze, and see it read than sell photos to poser countesses in some smelly city any day...

bye...