Boston ..

By a bizarre quirk of fate I had already planned to show you this photograph on my blog today, as it's one of the latest additions to my 'Seen..' project on Flickr. After last night's bombings in Boston I wavered a little over my choice, but I've decided to leave it in as a mark of respect to those poor people whose beautiful lives were so tragically cut short. One of the reasons I was going to show the shot was because I wanted to wax lyrical about the wonders of Spring and how, despite everything, it's so amazing to be in the middle of all this burgeoning new life. It's all we can do to honour those murdered by terrorism - in whatever country - to try to hold in our minds that it is, it really is, a wonderful world we live in!

Thank you for your pictures...

Apologies for another shot of plop, but it fits with today's blog, so stick with it! (Ugh!)

I love Flickr and the fact that, as a photographer, I can get my photographs in front of a worldwide audience in seconds. I mean, as a photographer, that's the whole point, isn't it? To have your photographs seen by others? Anyway, imagine my delight when I received a message on Flickr yesterday..
"Thank you for your pictures" it said, signed ..  Bill.



Bill is Bill Dane, from over there in LA, CA., and he's one of my mostest ever hero photographers. I've liked his work since I discovered him in a magazine I stole from a night-school class in 1977 (Wow! Confession time!) So, imagine how excited I was to know that he is looking at my work. Looking at it .. and liking it! What a compliment! So, a couple of new additions to my collection 'Seen', and here's to Flickr and the fact that I can show you sh*t shots like this and get away with it! Hurrah...