Well folks, the short answer is yes!  I guess I never really thought about this existential question before, but it was brought to the forefront as a result of the call for younger members announcement Monalog posted recently on the Large Format Photography Forum. The announcement is similar to what I posted here last week. Of course we ended up with several stupid and snarky postings in response. Was I surprised? Yes. Should I have been? No. Unfortunately it’s typical.

I guess in the world we live in people that photograph can be bozos just like anyone else that traverse the social media landscape.  Maybe I thought people that make pictures would universally be better. Silly me!

A bit of good news though, regarding this particular example of foolishness … one of the posters apologized. Thank you! To the others, I would love to see your work to find out if you are photographers Monalog would consider for membership or merely those with impressive large format cameras that occasionally venture out to take a mediocre picture?

If you’re a serious black and white analog photographer that wishes to be part of a great group of like-minded and people doing something truly exciting I would like to hear from you!

Stay safe,

Michael