A recent post regarding the Fujifilm X-100F camera drew a critical response from a reader - as much for my style of writing, I suspect, as for the content of the column. Well, to paraphrase President Lincoln, you can please some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time, but...
No, you can't buy this book of family photographs. It's the publisher's proof - the only one left after all 600 copies were sold. 600 copies of a family picture book? Who sells that many? Sam Harris. The English photographer who gave us a Shoot photography talk last night. It was a ripper of a talk on a cold Sunday night and well worth listening to - not least for those of the audience who might have been thinking about their own photographic or photo book career. Sam detailed his start in film photography, his initial successes in record and CD cover work in the UK, and his assignments throughout the world for editorial work. Yes, he did get to go up in that helicopter with Mr. Lydon, the chap in the striped shirt you saw in the advertisement, and no, he was not ill on him - though apparently it was a close-run thing. He explained the journeys of discovery he and his family had made in India and Australia prior to coming to WA and showed some of the experimental work he...