The Birthday Present
When I was about thirteen years old my cousin invited me to her 12th birthday party. I fell in love, no, not with her but with the present her parents had given her. It was a Kodak Brownie 127.
A Classic Pair
Back in the fifties the front cover of the weekly magazine Amateur Photographer always had the same banner advertisement. The advertisement was for Wallace Heaton, a very up market photographic shop. Every year they produced their catalogue which was known as ‘The...Secret Venice: L’Isola di San Michele
When most tourists go to Venice, they want to see certain things. The Piazza San Marco, the Doges’ Palace, the Bridge of Sighs, and the Rialto Bridge all fill boxes on their “must-see” checklist. Those places are certainly worth seeing, but many people come away feeling rather unfulfilled.
