http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this An entire Lightstalkers thread via RSS/XML. en-us What's going on? We are all photojournalists. Let's stop in this honorable community to be corporate driven. my wife was a successful corporate layer. she taught me that life can be better than this. what's left of us here fellers? What are we? Who're we? ( nothing wrong with taking all sorts of jobs but let's still be ourselves ) I heard one voice in the mist of this terrible time that has driven us into darkness: "We need to seek quality at all costs. Work towards excellence cause that's the only asset we've got". The person who told me this sits on the board of among the most successful corporations in the world. And he is right. He listened to a few colleagues of ours not knowing anything about our industry and came to these conclusions. let's not settle for mediocracy. We represent people who live by their own believes, who jump in a crisis not because they foresee the financial benefits of it but because they think it might serve a purpose of sorts. whatever that means. we are part of a small industry that was born out of a few who believed that life was something bigger than themselves . Wed, 13 May 2009 10:30:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this This in response to something in particular? Mon, 11 May 2009 23:35:08 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this#147929 Mask. In the morning I put on a capitalistic frock and sell my self to the highest bidder just like the prostitute at the square Tue, 12 May 2009 18:45:45 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this#148016 f*ckin aye Guy... Tue, 12 May 2009 23:36:43 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this#148030 So who's going to pay you while you are striving for quality or buy the result at a reasonable price once you're finished doing it? No one. This photo-journalism thing is dying. Industries only survive if there are clients for the finished product. You can't make a viable profession selling skills and products nobody wants to buy. Wed, 13 May 2009 09:01:56 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this#148047 prāta jukums?!!!!! Wed, 13 May 2009 09:44:31 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this#148049 nobody needs quality, nobody needs real good photography. this ongoing trend of captions that has nothing to do with the pictures i think ruins the photography.. Wed, 13 May 2009 10:30:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/we-are-better-than-this#148052