"'I never thought about how printing a photograph duplicates eyesight," I said. "It's the same exact process in slow motion.'
He nodded appreciatively and my heart warmed. I'd pleased him. 'Probably there is no real invention in the modern world,' he said. 'Just a good deal of elaboration on nature.' He lifted out the slick print and slipped it into a second tray, the fixer."
-Barbara Kingsolver, "Animal Dreams"