Caffeine is just one of many substances (toxic or not) being stored in the body. A fast gives the body a chance to clean house.
A fast is giving up everything for a period of time. You drink distilled water and nothing else.
You also stop any supplements and, if possible, any medicine, but see your doctor first if you take meds.
For a fast longer than 4 or 5 days see your doctor first, he might not agree with the idea. If he does then you should see him every week for monitoring while on the fast.
Our ancestors survived famine to get us here so fasting is something that the body is hardwired to do when needed.
A fast is also the right time to give up other bad habits like smoking.
For reference check out, "Fasting and Eating for Health" by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Camera: Buy a Canon G III QL17 or a Yashica Electro 35 GSN
Take the $150 left in your budget and buy B&W film by the brick (that's 20 rolls at a time.)
Then go out and SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Develop the film and print it as a proof sheet. If you see any pictures you really like on the proof, print them. Look at these pictures for a good long time and then go out and SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Go to the library and look at the work of famous photographers. On the way home be sure to SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
You see the equipment really isn't the most important thing here. Developing an EYE for shooting great pictures is. Most of the pictures that people take are not worth the paper they are printed on.
So save money on equipment because you should spend it on film. You will only be able to create great images if you do a lot of shooting. After you have developed your EYE you will be able to choose the proper camera system to buy into. And then you will still take that old RF along with you when you go out to shoot.
Camera: buy a Canon G III QL17 or a Yashica Electro 35 GSN. Take the $150 you saved from your budget and buy Black & White film by the brick (thats 20 rolls at a time.)
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Print proof sheets in your darkroom. Print the pictures you like as straight as you can. Look at them for a good long time and then go out and...
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Go look at the work of other photographers at the library and then on the way home...
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
The world is full of people who take pictures and most of them aren't worth the paper they are printed on. You have to SHOOT pictures in order to develop an EYE for the pictures that really are all around us. You will learn this for yourself if you SHOOT lots of pictures. You will see a very few that you really like in your first proof sheets. But the more you SHOOT the more you will find pictures that you like. In about a year you might have 4 or 5 pictures that you are really pleased with. (You get harder to please as your EYE develops.) You will see pictures in print and most of them will go by unnoticed but once in a while you will say to yourself, "Wish I'd shot that." Your EYE is the most important tool! Don't think that equipment is what matters. The world has plenty of people who own great stuff and shoot crap!
Everyone wants to live in the world they know now. No one here considers how the structure of America is fundamentally different now from the way it was 100 years ago.
The alternatives being discussed here are concerned with keeping things the way they are. Before Henry Ford started pumping out Model T's people lived in close proximity to employment and most shopping needs.
This is no longer the case.
We have spent the last 100 years building an alternative. One that we do not want to give up.
Perhaps we should consider giving it up.
This idea is not as hard to consider as you might think. Just as it took 100 years to get where we are it will also take 100 years to get back to a place where walking to work or the grocery is common.
In the meantime all the nerds on slashdot today can keep on driving!
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Caffeine is just one of many substances (toxic or not) being stored in the body. A fast gives the body a chance to clean house.
A fast is giving up everything for a period of time. You drink distilled water and nothing else.
You also stop any supplements and, if possible, any medicine, but see your doctor first if you take meds.
For a fast longer than 4 or 5 days see your doctor first, he might not agree with the idea. If he does then you should see him every week for monitoring while on the fast.
Our ancestors survived famine to get us here so fasting is something that the body is hardwired to do when needed.
A fast is also the right time to give up other bad habits like smoking.
For reference check out, "Fasting and Eating for Health" by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
I started one today.
Camera: Buy a Canon G III QL17 or a Yashica Electro 35 GSN
Take the $150 left in your budget and buy B&W film by the brick (that's 20 rolls at a time.)
Then go out and
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Develop the film and print it as a proof sheet. If you see any pictures you really like on the proof, print them. Look at these pictures for a good long time and then go out and
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Go to the library and look at the work of famous photographers. On the way home be sure to
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
You see the equipment really isn't the most important thing here.
Developing an EYE for shooting great pictures is.
Most of the pictures that people take are not worth the paper they are printed on.
So save money on equipment because you should spend it on film. You will only be able to create great images if you do a lot of shooting. After you have developed your EYE you will be able to choose the proper camera system to buy into. And then you will still take that old RF along with you when you go out to shoot.
Camera: buy a Canon G III QL17 or a Yashica Electro 35 GSN.
Take the $150 you saved from your budget and buy Black & White film by the brick (thats 20 rolls at a time.)
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Print proof sheets in your darkroom. Print the pictures you like as straight as you can. Look at them for a good long time and then go out and...
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Go look at the work of other photographers at the library and then on the way home...
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
The world is full of people who take pictures and most of them aren't worth the paper they are printed on. You have to SHOOT pictures in order to develop an EYE for the pictures that really are all around us. You will learn this for yourself if you SHOOT lots of pictures. You will see a very few that you really like in your first proof sheets. But the more you SHOOT the more you will find pictures that you like. In about a year you might have 4 or 5 pictures that you are really pleased with. (You get harder to please as your EYE develops.) You will see pictures in print and most of them will go by unnoticed but once in a while you will say to yourself, "Wish I'd shot that."
Your EYE is the most important tool! Don't think that equipment is what matters. The world has plenty of people who own great stuff and shoot crap!
Remember what is important.
SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!
Everyone wants to live in the world they know now. No one here considers how the structure of America is fundamentally different now from the way it was 100 years ago.
The alternatives being discussed here are concerned with keeping things the way they are.
Before Henry Ford started pumping out Model T's people lived in close proximity to employment and most shopping needs.
This is no longer the case.
We have spent the last 100 years building an alternative. One that we do not want to give up.
Perhaps we should consider giving it up.
This idea is not as hard to consider as you might think. Just as it took 100 years to get where we are it will also take 100 years to get back to a place where walking to work or the grocery is common.
In the meantime all the nerds on slashdot today can keep on driving!
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