Funny you should mention that kid. I had a similar experience in the workshop of Bruce's that I attended. Most of the participants were, like those in your workshop, advanced photographers using large format gear. But there were two older ladies who were good friends and did a lot of traveling together. They used 35mm or digital cameras, I forget which. Most of us thought it was cute that these two ladies would attend a workshop like Bruce's and we expected to be embarrassed for them when they showed their travel snapshots after all the work us serious photographers had shown. Uh, wrong. We all agreed that theirs were the best, most interesting, most creative photographs in the whole group.
Maybe Bruce brings in a "ringer" to each workshop like your kid or these ladies to teach us that we should never judge a photographer by his/her age or equipment.
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