Our garden, just starting out after a very cold winter . . .

It's very tiny indeed, only 5 metres by 5 metres . . .


















Lots of geraniums, as they are easy to coax into bloom all summer . . .


















I was enjoying the wireless broadband, flipping around the 'Net looking for 'editorial photography' links for the new college project. I looked around, noticed the plants, which are starting to take off, so I took a few photos . . .


















I used the old Canon DSLR 350, shot in RAW as usual, and used the fabulous 24-105 zoom lens. These were taken at 15.00 h, and the light was STRONG and BRIGHT.

I've just discovered that this photographer made a link with my blog last November, so I thought I'd check his link in Google . . . which is
http://paulrussellinfo.blogspot.com/

That lovely MacBook Pro has left, to start a new life . . .

Well, I learned to love that MacBook Pro. But I've let it go today. It's gone to start a new life with an ex-pat who has had her laptop nicked. She has no interest in photography, but I guess there's folks out there who just want a reliable, sexy little computer, which does things 100 times better than a PC ever was designed to do.

I'm desktop-publishing on my ancient AJP laptop, six years old and incredibly slow, but just hanging in there, with Photoshop and the Internet. Tomorrow I pick up my 'new' second-hand MacBook Pro, just like the last one but with larger RAM and a faster processor. And a back-lit LED screen, in place of the very nice indeed TFT screen. Still the same 1440 x 900 display. Not quite as sleek as the brand-new glass-screen 17" MacBook's, but considerably cheaper. And still 100 times better than . . .

The unstoppable rise of the citizen cameraman

This photo was taken by Eddie Adams in Saigon in 1968, a general shooting dead a Viet Cong suspect in the street, just after he was apprehended. Adams was awarded a Pulitzer prize for this shot.


We were discussing this just the other week in a presentation at college (HNC Photography): what legal or moral restrctions there might be if you wanted to shoot someone who was in a public place at the same time you were.
Ian Jack riffles through the arguments for and against, in his very short essay in the Guardian. It's at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/11/public-camera-video-technology

There's lots of coverage in the Easter Saturday issue, about the newspaper seller who died at the G20 protests here in London last week. I am glad that I had a chance to read Ian jack's comments. His insights are sound.
Enjoy.