Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Control is simple.
Did you get your decoder ring?
Drink ovaltine!
We are happy to enslave ourselves.
Wanton and willingly
Greatest hoodwink ever.
Shiny baubles we can never afford but feel we need.
Credit is slavery dressed up as Santa Claus
Even the smartest of us feel it’s bite upon their wrists

the latest iToy
name-brand sneakers
shirts with a sports logo
...
I shoot with an ancient digital Canon EOS
only 2 lenses - the 18-55mm kit lens it came with
and a 55-250mm telephoto I gifted to myself
I recently brought it to a weekly gathering of old colleagues
the following week one of the guys brought HIS camera
top of the line Nikon
musta weighed 20 lb
more controls than 787
400mm telephoto
and yet I've never seen a photograph he's taken
a few snapshots of the fam, maybe -
but no ball-grabbers

I concede:
his camera is bigger than mine
(and undoubtedly more $$$)
BUT.........

An eye is an eye but it’s worthless if you can’t see. Allegory of the cave? Commercials force me to understand what is important.