Thanks for the response, Richard. We also had a darkroom in the basement, my late father taught me to print, and to see. It’s astonishing how photography has gone from a difficult craft to a fairly easy one technically. All the more reason why, to me, quality of visual authorship is key. Ideas and originality.

Interestingly, when I was teaching photography for 15 years up until last summer (when our family moved to Nairobi), most of my students generally preferred the film/darkroom process.

Yes, you are correct, the crowd is looking at the old clock in Prague (though it’s in Old Town Square, not Wenceslas Square).