Yeah, now I'm depressed too. There is no more skilled labor. I work in a factory that makes computer chips. Everything that can be automated is automated. We can eventually hire monkey's to do what automation won't do---like take out the trash and move boxes. I guess my point is that it's not just the employees. Our employers don't want to motivate too many employees with a brain either. This is why I tell my teenage kids to learn a skill in college for their undergraduate degrees. Getting a 4 year degree in business or marketing is such a risk, if not a waste these days.

Boy this strikes nerve with me. The ONLY medium we can be reasonably sure will survive is paper prints. B&W is particularly suited for longevity.

Computers are shipping without CD/DVD drives already. Of course we can buy externals, but the trend is everything from the "cloud."

I see entire family histories being lost due to the stupid and I do mean STUPID idea that digital files are the way to go. Facebook is not your family album and yes, we are learning that CD's burned just few years ago are corrupted.

Did I mention that thinking digital storage will keep images for the future is STUPID. :-)

I have seen a few postings about the meaning of bokeh on this site so I was interested to see a simple explanation while reading a post on Digital Photography School website. For those of you who were not clear on this subject, it said:

Bokeh is a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas in a photographic image.

Also noted was that drool-worthy bokeh comes from prime lenses with large apertures, like f/1.4 and f/1.8 and the subject should be placed far from the background. It was strongly pointed out that the quality of the bokeh was the most important aspect - i.e. good bokeh should not be confused with shallow depth-of-field - the terms are not interchangeable.