The photo that required 7 months and the breaking of a 40-year-old mindset to take

[Sloumeau]

4. The good news is...

--No more waiting for pictures to be developed.

--No more having to buy the developing chemicals yourself, finding a place to do the developing, putting up with the chemical smell, and no more fading of old photographs.

--Being able to instantly email pics to friends and to post them on an internet web page.

--Being able to use amazing tools like photoshop to both clean up bad sections of a photograph and to add things that you could not easily or cheaply add in real life, such as cool special effects.

Now that you are good at digital, you might go back to old-style photography once in a while for nostalgia, but you will know right away all that you will be missing, so odds are the journey will be a short one.