down to Middle Camp Beach

18Feb09

Yesterday, late afternoon, I had the sudden urge to get some photographs. Also, I was looking for an opportunity to test-drive a new camera I had bought from eBay, a little point-and-shoot film camera, an Olympus Trip AF51. $1 it cost me. I like picking up these bargains that no-one else wants and this one [...]

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it’s a tricky business

16Feb09

When I go down to the seashore, usually at headlands where the photo opportunities are greater, it is a tricky business to negotiate the rocks.

Of course there is usually a bit of sun, the light at the beach is strong in any case, so I wear a pair of sunglasses made to fit over my [...]

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the Western stories of Elmore Leonard

08Feb09

I have been reading The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard. I am having a lot of fun with them. There are thirty stories in the book (in America: HarperCollins, 2004). Most of the stories date from the early 1950s, when Leonard was starting his writing career. There are three that came later, in [...]

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