I have my reasons for regretting that photography is being drastically changed by the digital revolution. Lots of them.  What has photography really been for the past century plus?  It has been a lot of things & it has tried to be a lot of things.  It is constantly trying to be accepted as art. It is the the medium that doesn't lie, yeah. But it has been used to distort.  Beauty, ugliness, it has always been used to manipulate these words (truths). 

What strikes me tonight, came after I looked at my Photo Lab Index. What is a Photo lab Index you say? Most of you probably have never seen one, or for that matter, give a damn.  Well, it is a document, rather, an encyclopedia of photography. It is organized by manufacturers & photographic specifications, but a lot of it is a collection of their recipes, chemical recipes.....for the craftsman/chemists of photography.

Photography was and still is a craft steeped in chemicals. The giants of the industry, Kodak, Polaroid , Agfa & others are all chemical companies first, other things later.  And they are in trouble...digital trouble.

For better or worse (I think the art of photography will suffer in the short term) "Digital has taken the craft out of photography".  Maybe our environment will be happier for these changes, & certainly the practitioners of the new medium will be happier.  But painters still use paints much the same way as they have for centuries. The Craftsman/Photographers/Artists of today & beyond will have to learn to feel & see light in different ways. The craft has changed!