The photo-software becomes more and more sophisticated. What about darkrooms? One must remember that these programs are tools. Powerful tools, but..tools just the same. The tool does not make the art. The artist makes the art. One of my favorite sayings is: " An electric saw, does not a carpenter make." I often work with Adobe's 'Photoshop' to manipulate many of the images that I might not make Polaroid transfers from. I always use the program as a non-obvious tool or as an electronic brush or as a strange new lens. And I hate those very obvious looking "surrealistic" style images that so many people have been generating with these tools. Now, as far as a darkroom goes... ( ... Y'know, ..sometimes I feel like such a "fraud." Photographer and darkroom always seemed synonymous to me.) ...But I not only ..don't have a dark room, ..I wouldn't even know my way around in one if you left me there alone!