P3D Used but Amused

[John Toeppen <toeppen@xxxxxxxx>]

Teri was musing:
"Gene,(my husband)... is only interested in using the creativity of his
employees to increase his own wealth, and since this bird is a bird of
prey, I wonder how much that applies to Mr. Toeppen as well?" 

I am used but amused.  Hey, I like my day job in lasers, my evenings
doing biotech consulting, and the time that I get to spend doing 3D.
Life is good and challenging in California for our family.  I am used at
work, but this is a two way street.  If your husband can extract value
from his workers he is doing his job.  If he screws them out of just
rewards he will find that the hungry golden goose lays few eggs. It has
to be two way to be stable and fully develop.

My original comments were about how my love birds (small parrots) bob up
and down to rangefind.  They had learned that motion is a key to depth
perception.  Now that I have been shooting stereo video for a while I
have learned the same thing.

Teri does make a point about learning from doing.  I don't believe in
trial and error.  I believe in trial and learning experience.  If we do
not interpret and respond to data we are making an error.  Poor
exposures, compositions, film and equipment malfunctions tell us
something. (Cowboy wisdom: good judgment comes from experience that came
from bad judgment) We need to respond to data. It is also an error not
to make a trial.  Or to learn from other's "errors."

Successes are more worthy of close inspection.  Remarkable images are
remarkable for reasons due to principles.  Distill the principle and you
have part of a recipe.  Variations on known stuff often works.  Dedicate
a roll or ten to falling water, autumn color, cars, or aircraft.  Study
your results.  Extract principles and draw conclusions.  The next time
you encounter a similar subject apply the knowledge.  Don't let people
fool you into thinking that an artistic eye can't be learned.  Or that
artisans don't have or need technical, reasoning or business skill sets.

Perhaps we need a metaphysics 3D group.  Maybe not.  Probably not. But I
have posted one of my musings. It relates to how a person can plant
seeds that have long term results. Perhaps we do some of that for each
other here.

John Toeppen
http://members.home.net/toeppen/acorns.htm