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or extra virgin olive oil, should they be re- creatively using all the tools then available?
frigerated? I have asked friends and strangers, The big thing now in photography is dig-and everyone has a different answer. I don’t ital image making and all that it encompasses.
refrigerate vinegar and I don’t refrigerate cook- Nobody stayed with 4-by-6-inch sheet film
ing oil or any oil. So far the whole family is still when 35 mm was clearly a step forward and
alive. Please help. better and more imaginative images were the
Myrna Richard-Dorras result. Digital image making is new, it’s here,
Victoria, British Columbia it’s exciting. Enjoy the creativity it allows and
don’t browbeat those of us who have moved
Craig Wilson, Costco’s assistant vice president, ahead. It’s all still about producing imaginative
Food Safety and Quality Assurance responds: and compelling images. It always has been.
There are no dumb questions! You do not P.S. I think my submission should have
need to refrigerate your Kirkland Signature™ won, but I always do.
CHRIS RUSNAK
Balsamic Vinegar or your Kirkland Signature Ernie Maber
Olive Oil. I’m sure your friends who disagreed St. John, New Brunswick
were talking about oils and vinegars that are
Debate goes on infused (with garlic or many other flavours), Have something to say?
which should be refrigerated after opening. In response to the May/June Readers are encouraged to submit letters to our editors on any topic or issue
Debate, “Should organ More photo contest feedback covered in The Connection. Please
donation be ‘automatic’?” When you’re as old as I am and still remem- include your full name and phone number
YES. My husband died in February this year. ber when there was a king on the throne of or address. Send all letters to: Dialogue,
He needed a liver. He was only 51 and left be- England, and only professional photographers The Costco Connection, 415 West Hunt
hind myself and our two children, ages 11 and were embracing 35 mm cameras, you have to Club Road, Ottawa, ON K2E 1C5; fax to
12. I saw people all around us dying in the reflect on just how far and how fast photogra- (613) 221-2283; or e-mail to dialogue@
hospital because they needed an organ. Most phy has moved along in the last 50 to 65 years. costco.com. The editors reserve the right
religions support organ donation. You don’t As a lad, I started out using a box camera to edit letters for publication.
need your organs when you are dying. Why not that you held at your waist, hoping the sun
give them up and make a difference? Not only was bright enough and that nobody moved.
are you saving the life of one person, but you As a teenager, I worked part-time for a
are making a big difference in the lives of the local photographer. He used “tricks” to pro-people who would have been left behind. duce the good images he sold—using Vaseline
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Ivana Tittoto on lenses to blur backgrounds, trying various
Cookstown, Ontario
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NO. I am enrolled as an organ donor, and
encourage others to do the same. But the
thought of government setting up an “opt out”
system is extremely distasteful to me. The
choice of donating organs should be up to the
person, not the government.
Barbara Cooper
Port Alberni, British Columbia
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I really enjoyed the cover story “Made in Phone
Italy,” May/June 2007. I have one of those dumb Canada first place winner, Greg Pichnej
questions. When you open balsamic vinegar of Newcastle, Ontario
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filters, hours spent adjusting reflectors and
lights and camera angles, discussions with sub-
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Inc., and are used under licence. ulation, dodging, burning and a lot of thought
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