I’ve always been a fan of HCB. His notion of having false arms on his coat so he could keep his arms inside operating a camera with a viewer at waist level always appealed to me. IN fact, my first SLR, a Practika was bought exactly because you could use a viewer instead of a pentaprism. Nowadays, people are used to others with smartphones waving around, so there is a lot less camera-shyness.
The Blue Book of Nebo is one for the list. Written in alternate chapters by a 14 year old boy and his mum about life after an undisclosed world event which leaves them alone, living in the Welsh mountains without anyone else around. Beautifully written and really compelling. Jake really enjoyed it, it was his jolabokaflod book this year. Our local indie bookshop had it as their book of the year.
I’ve always been a fan of HCB. His notion of having false arms on his coat so he could keep his arms inside operating a camera with a viewer at waist level always appealed to me. IN fact, my first SLR, a Practika was bought exactly because you could use a viewer instead of a pentaprism. Nowadays, people are used to others with smartphones waving around, so there is a lot less camera-shyness.
I had to look this one up.... Autometalogolex ., noice!!
The Blue Book of Nebo is one for the list. Written in alternate chapters by a 14 year old boy and his mum about life after an undisclosed world event which leaves them alone, living in the Welsh mountains without anyone else around. Beautifully written and really compelling. Jake really enjoyed it, it was his jolabokaflod book this year. Our local indie bookshop had it as their book of the year.