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Publishers Note:  This is the first in our Getting Back To The Print series.  We will be looking at printers, papers, RIPs, and tricks.  We'll have video conversations about printing as well as different ways to display prints.  To me and all of us at Luminous-Landscape we believe that photography is all about the print.  We hope you like this series as it continues through out the year.

 
Tao, according to Goggle: "(in Chinese philosophy) the absolute principle underlying the universe, combining within itself the principles of yin and yang and signifying the way, or code of behavior, that is in harmony with the natural order". Or from the Urban Dictionary: "The exact meaning of tao is untranslatable. Tao basically means everything. The tao is like a flow that is everywhere."
But perhaps more in context, Derek Lin (on www.Taoism.net) points to some aspects of Tao from the teachings of Lao Tzu:
"…...the truly wise don't seem to do much at all and yet achieve whatever they want. ...

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Mark Segal
Mark Segal
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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.
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