Mastery and Learning from a Master!

Why would you post that in the provocative thoughts and images section? Then again, now that it is in this section here, how many masters do you produce per annum? <grins>

Nudge it one down to training and workshops. <smile>

Georg Baumann said:

Why would you post that in the provocative thoughts and images section? Then again, now that it is in this section here, how many masters do you produce per annum? <grins>

Nudge it one down to training and workshops. <smile>

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Georg,

I moved the forst post by Alain to the Educational Section here

What is a master?

I think Alain might be talking about Mastery

Then to master is to accomplish certain skills.

I know you are referring to the use of Master as an end result with a Master handing down that status to a student. Yes perhaps that's it.

Well what is a "master"? For sure there have been few masters of anything but in colleges, visiting musicians might give master classes, but that would be Lynn Harrel or Yoo Yo Ma each amongst the several foremost cellists alive.

So what is a master? I really don't know!

I have seen advertisements for "Genuine Nagahide" for "ook-alike-Leather" sofas.

When I was in Turkey, in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, there was a big sign "Genuine Fake Watches!"

If one takes a course and learns how to look at Nature and capture a great image, then as far as I'm concerned, you can call it whatever you like. After all, one has to market a course to make it pay! If the student gains zero, then I even of Monet was the teacher, it would have been, apart from the thrill of talking to a dead person, a waste of time!

So what so I know?

Asher

Hehehe, I see you split the thread. - I just could not resist I suppose. Let's see, the Master is a renegade Time Lord, at least in Doctor Who that is. <grins> Then there is the master of malt

http://www.masterofmalt.co.uk/shopping/index.asp

My great grandfather was a Master Locksmith, then there is the society of Master Sadlers, there is a dive master as well, and as a matter of course, the Briots have Masters of Photography, naturally, ahem pardon, the Brits I meant.

And last not least.... <grins>

I posted my Spring 2008 workshop listing in the wrong part of the forum. I notified Asher immediately so he could make the change which he did pretty much right away. The listing is now in the section below where announcements are featured. The Spring 2008 workshops include both field workshops to Antelope Canyon and Navajoland and the Trilogy Seminars Series: Composition, Printing and Marketing.

Originally posted by Asher Kelman

What is a master?

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Your question reminds me of a conversation with my aunt, perhaps five years ago. My aunt has been making her living from photography for most of my life. We were strolling through downtown Santa Cruz, and we passed by a photography studio, with a sign out front which advertised "Willis Preston Campbell – Master Photographer".

As we saw this sign, I asked my Aunt, "When is it appropriate to refer to oneself as a Master Photographer?"

She answered, "When it makes you more money".

Is a Master Photographer an apprentice to a Mister Photographer?