Re: Talking vs Doing

[P3D John W Roberts <roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:36:12 -0500
>From: P3D Karen Obusek <markaren@xxxxxxxxx> (MARK DOTTLE)
>To: Multiple recipients of list <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Talking vs Doing

>Bob the photographer visited
>me this evening and I invited him to read the many P3-D lists with me.
>He laughed out loud and told me that he would love to see the work of
>many who posted technical notes on the list
>claiming that " science oriented people more often than not are lousy
>photographers and do all theoretical dreaming and speculation....and
>can't create a good image to save their lives!"

That reminds me - last year I was fortunate enough to be able to spend a
day at the Louvre in Paris. (I know that as an engineer I had no business
being there - let's assume that I had intended to admire a water treatment 
plant and made a wrong turn). Anyway, I noticed that of all the myriads of
paintings in the museum, one in particular drew enormous crowds - people
clamoring to get a glimpse of it. That painting was the Mona Lisa
(La Gioconda). It was tragic - but I just couldn't bear to inform those
people that the image they were viewing was no good - but it must have been,
because the creator, Leonardo da Vinci, was a scientist and engineer!

;-)
John R


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