April 2008
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Psychological Photography: Mountains And Escape
For a year or two now, I’ve been working on a Lake District photography book. After many years tramping those fells, I’ve got a good portfolio more than good enough to make a book. The problem is how to manage this, market it, publish it, and organise the material. The problem is not that it’s not good enough; I’ve got a collection of about forty Lake District books and my work is the equal of…
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The Decline Of Street Photography
I’ll never forget my early fascination with photography, and my thoughts and feelings about it. My small local library had a collection of books I supplemented with weekly visits to read the Amateur Photographer. One volume was a quaint instruction manual called How To Take Better Photographs by Ralph Hattersley. I wanted to be the good-looking young fella in the leather jacket, that turned out to be Hattersley’s son. I drooled over the young ladies,…