What a lift to read this tonight!
I was out this morning just taking some snaps of my dog and the ducks and geese and thinking how marvelous the digital point and shoot camera is and pondering how easy and inexpensive it is to get a nice shot compared to, say, twenty years ago, let alone what guys like Edward Curtis had to work with.
The Tram photo is the result of that universal access,but moreover, three hours in the damp waiting for the light and use of a tripod.