Do we learn to see?

[Vaughn]

Originally Posted by bowzart

I wonder. Gathering? Yes, we know that there was/is a lot of harvesting. But scavenging? I don't think so...

Good points. But "stone-age" merely means before the working of metal, where the tools were stone, bone and wood (and teeth). I have heard the use of 30 hours per week as the average time it takes for a hunter/gatherer to supply food for their family (I believe based on present day hunter/gatherer tribes). Granted this number varies greatly by season and geographical location. But as an average figure, this leaves a lot of daylight to perfect skills such as knapping, bead-making, basketry, et al.

Those points in Washington are relatively recent, especially if one accepts the migration theory from Asia, in human history...and I consider human history to include pre-humans. One has to assume that there was a time before the knowledge of point-making and bow-making...when one did throw rocks or bash animals over the head with a stick or stab them with a fire-hardened stick...or be thankful for what a cat may have left after eating its full of its kill. Hundreds, if not thousands of centuries of unknown history because there are little artifacts to associate with the people who made little.

It was only the advent of beer that gave man a reason to give up the happy nomad live and stay in one place long enough to grow the grain needed to make it...

Vaughn

[bowzart]

Originally Posted by Vaughn

It was only the advent of beer that gave man a reason to give up the happy nomad live and stay in one place long enough to grow the grain needed to make it...
Vaughn

Yes, of this we can be pretty sure. Of the rest, who can tell.

[Paul Goutiere]

Originally Posted by arigram

A good photographer should become a baby again: see things like for the first time, curiosity and discovery become most important,

This is true, but has been difficult for me to return to the time "curiosity and discovery become most important".
My best years with a camera were the first years, when I knew nothing about photography, cameras, s curves, f stops, the "right" film etc. I just framed and ....click.....then that was that. No preconceptions I suppose.

Now in my later years I see sometimes that this may come back to me. I'm waiting, and taking pictures in the meantime.

[bowzart]

Originally Posted by ilya1963

BUT

Reality , yes that miserable , miserable thing we call reality , it seem to always pull us back , does it not?

Reality, our common consensual fantasy? Is that what you mean?

Believe me, Ilya, what you write is not weird.

[ilya1963]

Originally Posted by bowzart

Reality, our common consensual fantasy? Is that what you mean?

Believe me, Ilya, what you write is not weird.

Yes that is .

Thank you, Larry , I have enjoyed your depth of field. Rare stuff.

thank you,