Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, College degrees teach how to learn, not how to do something. Only doing the thing will properly teach you. I would advise you to spend your money on workshops and short courses offered by the magazines and camera companies. Go to that thing that Ted teaches. You'll learn more in that kind of rarified atmosphere in a week than you'll get in a year of ""art school." If it is the girls at college you are thinking about, take it from me, (I work at a University) a guy your age is invisible to them, and before long they'll be invisible to you. Mostly. ;-) Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish This is pretty crazy. I am almost 43, married for 21 years, have 2 kidz, silicon valley mortgage, runs a small business, and... I am thinking about getting a photography degree... I already have a Bachelor degree in EE and a Master degree in Comp. Sci. May be it would be easier if I spend the money and just buys lots of film and travel around and takes tons of pictures and learn to enjoy Xtol in the morning. Yet somehow there is a yearning. The Academy of Art (www.academyart.edu) is almost local enough, right in SF, and I can even take online courses. I suppose I am more interested in the "Fine Arts," Documentary type of work, but I don't know. I don't know, may be the feeling will disappear tomorrow. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)