Category: Fun
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Summer Days
Summer days are here – time to celebrate… In order of appearance the Bali sculpture was photographed while on a commercial shoot for a client and the accompanying figure was a personal shot taken in my studio in London. The couple on the raft drinking rum was for a Bacardi advertising campaign and calendar shot…
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Pentax Digital Camera
Pentax have released the K10D SLR. Finally, a digital camera that is nudging well into the professional space from a manufacturer that I have supported for decades. I have been clinging to my old and much loved 6×7 bodies and their excellent Pentax lenses. Together they have been my staple image capturing system for over…
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Darcey Bussell Retires
Ballet casts a unique spell. Words like ‘dreams’, ‘fantasy’ and ‘fairy tale’ are used to describe both ballet and the career of the extraordinary ballerina Bussell. While ballet certainly encompasses dreams and fantasy, it is also, among other things, a visceral projection of feminine mystique and power, precision, discipline and artistic and erotic refinement. Articles…
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Primates and Philosophers…
…is the title of a new book by Frans de Waal, famed primatologist and Professor of Psychology at Emory. De Waal essentially argues that traits of empathy and reciprocity, the foundation for survival, human morals and law, are evolved from animal behaviour in particular primate behaviour. As such his work supports Darwin while contradicting Thomas…