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  1. Yeah . . . but he's never been so busy as to not comment on or post a pic of Down Under wines. ??? Mark! Where are you? Oh, a month? Thanks, Jean-François.
  2. In 2020, I will absolutely promise NOT to make any resolutions about anything including photography. Take it to the bank. Edo
  3. I can't drink tea. I have cough-variant asthma and tea gets me coughing. Cider I don't care for. I've acquired a taste for Guinness.
  4. Goodness, I'm lightyears away from being a wine snob. Or a cuisine snob, for that matter. I only drink 4 things: coffee, beer, wine, and tap water. No soft drinks and no spirts. No spirits is a semi-lie, because this winter I sometimes have a shot of brandy after lunch. But then brandy is distilled wine, no? Don't forget that I've lived in Europe over 20 years of my life so I would have to know a bit about wine. Inexpensive, drinkable wine is what I'm interested in. Drinkable whites are more expensive than drinkable reds . . . so I drink more red. Spain was great for low prices on wine and beer when eating out. And it's not as bad here as it was in NYC. I'm gonna look in Sainsbury's for that Malbec, Alan. £5? Hmm. Absolutely everything was closed here yesterday. And since today, the 26th, is Boxing Day, I expect that everything will still be shut. Tomorrow? And tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow? ??? Edo
  5. I've never had Armenian wine. I hope it's less expensive than the Rioja with the Magico name.
  6. Garlic and onions make a great flavour base for many dishes, Bryan. 😉 Add an herb or two and some olive oil, and it's hard to go wrong. I ate vegetarian Italian today and had half a bottle of Antinori Chianti. Liverpool City Centre was totally empty today, not a soul in sight and every pub and bistro shut. I had to walk down to the Beatles statues to find a few Asian tourists. Best wishes to you too, Carol. Edo
  7. Yes, "Nollaig shona duit a chara." I tried to get my tongue around that today. Irish is one tough bunch of words. But then, many of the most important writers in English, as the 19th century was becoming the 20th, were Irish -- Joyce, Beckett, O'Casey, Wilde and Joseph Conrad. Hmm. Okay, maybe Conrad wasn't Irish . . . but he wrote like an Irish lad. And he wasn't English.
  8. Yikes, tomorrow's Christmas and I just released that there's no chimney on this building. How is Santa supposed to get in with my gifts? Looking out my window, I see a platformed marquee extending from the entrance but it looks too small to land all those reindeer on, especially with Rudolf leading the pack. He's drunk on punch most of the time. How do you think he got that red nose? I'm lucky this year though. I know one couple here, friends of a friend. He's a red-haired Irish lad who speaks the Gaelic. She's Jewish American from the Rocky Mountains. They went out and actually shopped for stuff for me, specific items I need, not a generic bottle of wine. I'm very touched. And they are good young people, with doctorates, doing research at a university here on global warming. So, I'm not just touched. I'm also impressed. I've not eaten out for over two weeks now. I go to one of the local pubs for a pint of Guinness before cooking for myself. Someone suggested that I'm happy now. I'm a long way from happy. But I'm a lot less unhappy. Have a great Holiday, everyone! Edo
  9. When I first glimpsed this image, Wim, I thought it was a pub window. The Sisters of Charity would be very unhappy with me. 😟
  10. Let me just take a minute to say that there are some really good photographers posting pics in this forum. Edo
  11. "2/ Do what we love doing and accept that it won’t make us rich." I find shooting stock as interesting a thing to do as any of the assignment work I did in the 35 years when I was a full-time pro. I don't have the energy to do that much hard work anymore. Yes, digital has resulted in far too many people with cameras thinking they are photographers, but on the positive side it has also produced a wider interest in images and ways of using them. I don't play golf or watch daytime TV. Shooting digital stock is what I do.
  12. Just to be clear, Ian: I don't want anyone telling me what I should shoot. I would see that as an assignment and I would expect to be paid a day rate.
  13. I have to agree with Brain's point of view on digital stock. The big dramatic change came when stock moved from film to digital; that's life on the Planet Earth now. I used to be able to live on my earnings from Tony Stone Limited. I never give any thought to price. I trust Alamy and see that as their job. I focus on my role as a producer of editorial stock images. Edo
  14. "You didn't carry it around in your backpack did you?" Sadly, no. That nice, simple tile is one of the many personal items that is gone from my life.
  15. I did a shoot for Blackwell's once, Steve. It took me up to the Lake District. The Oxfordshire I miss is probably long gone and I would not know most of what's there now. I'm glad to be back in the UK, although this dark, rainy winter is not much fun.
  16. Ouch, I don't know about all that, Harry -- but I'm sure of one thing: I miss Oxfordshire. I lived in Woodstock, Charlton-on-Otmoor, and in Summertown.
  17. I meant when shooting, Harry. Twice I had someone yell at me. Lucky I don't speak French. 😎 Actually I come down mostly on the side of privacy in this issue.
  18. It's not onsite employees or security guards I'm concerned with. It's selling without permission or a property release that concerns me. Back in the long long ago, when I was a PJ working on assignment, I played by one rule: get the picture. When shooting these days for editorial stock I avoid subjects and situations that require a lot of special effort. On the one hand, my guess is that M&S would benefit and approve of having an image of their products appear editorially . . . free advertising . . . but I'm not sure that's the case. Edo
  19. As you know, John, my son lives in Montreal with his Québécois wife, and I spent the summer of 2018 with them. Lyne's family dates back to the early French fur traders. I was shooting around the city for three months and never had a problem. Ironically, France, the birth place of photography and Street photography, is very hard on people shooting other people, even in a crowded public place. Edo
  20. In New York, from time to time, I would take pictures of items on supermarket shelves. And sometimes they would sell. Here's one: Today I was at a local M&S Food Hall. I planned to buy a few things, but the mobs of pre-Christmas shoppers changed my mind. So I started taking snaps of the food on their shelves. Doing a re-edit, I became aware that the M&S logo is on every item. So I'm wondering . . . have I wander into a danger zone? I always mark the box that says I have no releases but I'm shooting in their store -- private property -- And come to think of it, the boxes of cage-free eggs in NYC were snapped in a store also and they have the name of the producer on them. ??? What do you think? And what do you think about me doing this in the UK? Hmm. 🤔
  21. To stay or to go is entirely up to you. Regarding your images, the comments of others are spot on. I wonder what point you're illustrating with 2AE1N9J, for example? Are you trying to show how bad the light in that room was? And that's not your only totally underexposed image. And do you do any PP at all? Stock is competitive. If you don't do better someone else will. Edo
  22. It's not been a bad month so far for me but what I find strange is that all my licensed images were closeups. ??? Like >
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