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By Brooks A. Mick, M.D.
June 19, 2006 I think I'll save "marriage" for last. Daniel Craig had some trouble shooting the new James Bond movie, a new adaptation of Casino Royale, the first Bond novel. First, he had some teeth knocked out in a fight scene, and then he couldn't drive a stick shift Aston Martin. Seems he had never learned to drive a manual shift auto. Too bad. When you are learning to drive, I suggest you get a car with a stick shift. Of course it is easier to drive an automatic shift. And perhaps you never plan to buy a manual shift automobile. But there may come an emergency some day when a manual shift auto is the only one available and you will have to drive it. And it's not easy if you haven't done it at least a few times. Digital photography has taken over, and it is getting more difficult all the time to find slide film for my Canon 35mm camera. It is so easy to shoot digitally, download into the computer, and then use a photo editing program to crop and dodge and burn and even delete people from the scene. Too easy, in fact. I advise someone serious about becoming a good photographer to go to the bother and expense of shooting 35mm slide film. What you see is what you get--permanently! You can't crop or otherwise edit a slide. Once you gently press the shutter button, that's it, forever. No film processor can fix it for you. Now of course you CAN scan it into your computer and then edit it, but that wouldn't be learning to compose, adjust lighting, choose lens length, aperture, shutter speed, and otherwise manipulate all the things that a photographer can manipulate to get the shot he wants BEFORE he snaps that shutter. That is the essence of good photography, not the digital manipulation which can come later. And what about marriage? Well, my advice is that you should never marry anyone you couldn't trust with your life or your fortune. Pre-nuptial agreements are for losers. They almost always guarantee a divorce. My rule about money was what was mine was ours. If I couldn't trust a woman with my money, why would I marry her? In other words, marry someone honest. Beautiful and sexy are nice, but honesty and integrity and a sense of duty are more important. One problem I see is that you can enroll in photography classes and drivers' education classes, but I am not aware of any effective instruction for marriage. But I will give you one last bit of advice: Learn to appreciate and enjoy all her faults and quirks. It's better than letting them annoy you! ------------ About the author Brooks A. Mick: Physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre. Email: brooks15@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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