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...So Tom got the heck out of Egypt and went to the big city, where he traded in his art supplies for a Pentax K-1000 camera. He wandered around the city taking black & white pictures of manhole covers and discarded fast food wrappers soaking in puddles. He found after a very short time that it was impossible to make everything in his new pictures look like something Pharaoh would like, or even like something that adhered to his earlier ideals of artistic expression, but that, by carefully studying his subject before pressing the button to open the shutter, and by paying attention to the development, projection, and printing of his photos, he could make pictures that were completely original and pleasing to his own eye, and reflected the true nature of the things he took pictures of. Tom shrugged and then went and had a beer.

What can I say, I started feeling sorry for the guy...