Thirty-Five Years Later, Photography Still Beats Working for a Living | Black Star Rising

So very very true.

Thirty-Five Years Later, Photography Still Beats Working for a Living | Black Star Rising:

"If this sounds a little stupid, this was 1972 when a call between the USA and the UK, where I am based, meant calling a telephone operator to book a call. You then waited about three hours, and they would call you and connect you to your chosen number. No reply? Start all over again!

And here I am 35 years later, still working for Ben Chapnick and seemingly still having to use the same grotty departure lounge at London’s Heathrow airport.

I am not sure that modern communications have made us any closer. Indeed, we almost seem to be more suspicious of each other. And certainly modern travel, although faster in the air, is slower and more traumatic on the ground! Booking travel on the Internet is all very well, but one needs a nimble mind to work around all those “Fly with us to amazing destinations for just $50!” promises only to discover there is just the one seat at that price. Not to mention being charged $120 per extra checked bag — and what photographer takes just one case of equipment?"