17 Dec The Vast Waistland
I wonder if Newton Minow was thinking of camera bags at the time...
December 2019
16 Dec The Ghost Of Christmas Present
This is a powerful spirit - it rattles the cashbooks and money boxes just like Jacob Marley in Dickens' tale. And it will not be silenced. You buy it and wrap it and give it or else...
12 Dec Hard Shell Easy Sell
The Camera Electronic Emporium Of Imagination has struck again. I gathered an armload of Lowepro camera cases off the racks this morning and started to think hard about them. Hard is the operative word, as these are a departure from the normal floppy cases and bags...
12 Dec Be Humble For The Holidays
The upcoming holidays are expensive affairs - food, drink, decorations, housecleaning, etc. Whether you do it with a few people or a great many, you spend a lot of money, time, and effort to entertain and visit. If you are trying to fly somewhere the local...
11 Dec Curing A Hardened Heart
There are several well-documented ways of curing a hardened heart: Read Emily Dickenson poems and weep silently. Read " The Pickwick Papers " by Dickens and laugh out loud. Triple bypass surgery. Buy a colourful camera. This last may not show up in the literary or...
10 Dec That Curious Little Symbol
In the heading image - the symbol engraved into the side of the Nikon camera lens. Looks like an expanding rectangle. Never knew what it was until a few weeks ago. I often wondered if it was a warning about biological hazards...
09 Dec I May Have Been A Bit Hasty…
When I undertook the assignment of illustrating a catalogue of scale models for my club I got an attack of the Gottahavits - it occurred when I rounded the cabinet with the Lume Cubes in it and was probably just a recurrence of an old...
06 Dec There Are No Words
I am sometimes lost for words - not often, but when it does happen the silence can be deafening. Mind you, that's a very good thing, because if I don't say anything, I don't say the wrong thing. Fortunately, this reticence and wisdom rarely extend to...
05 Dec The Holidays Are Coming
And what better tradition than to cut out pictures of the presents you want and leave them casually around the house for the family to see. Or beside their cereal bowls at breakfast. Or nailed to the door. Try to be subtle. I am going to...
04 Dec Snake Season
And we don't just mean at Tomato Lake or Jackadder or in the carpark of Murdoch Hospital...