John Morrison

Why does every item of portable tech need a camera? 🙁

Pen Hill, in the Yorkshire Dales, $$...

The change in Alamy commission has made me re-think my priorities. With a big book to finish, I’m letting sunny days go by. Though it’s a shame to miss those days out with my camera, I feel energised by the writing… and I’m on track to finish the book by the end of October. I’ll carry on shooting and uploading pix, but at a lower level. From now on, its plan B…

Never pass up an opportunity to see pix by Sebastião Salgado…

Maybe he's more of an S & M guy. 😎

"No, no, nurse... I said prick his boil"...

Obviously you think you have...

True... but I don't think you have either...

With just ten images on display, you must have acute eyesight. 😎

Me too: a couple of hours well-spent. I don't know how those girls hit the ball so hard, and find the corners of the court with such precision and regularity. And Emma has won the event without dropping a set (including the three preliminary matches she had to play as a qualifier). She will need a removals van to carry all the money she's going to make over the next ten years...

Another article in the Guardian which may be of interest: interviews with some of the people who appeared in iconic photos from 9/11. Even if some of the photographers were thought to be “in the way”, when others were running away from the twin towers, it’s generally agreed, in retrospect, that it was a good thing that photographers were there to witness - and capture - the events of that day…

Ed… You gave somebody the opportunity to be their better selves. They’ll be feeling fine, too, about this brief transaction. I was at a supermarket checkout the other day, and the lady in front of me was short of a couple of quid for the things she’d bought. Before she had to decide what to leave behind, I gave a note to the cashier. A smile was my reward…

It's fascinating to see the world from a new angle.

Yes, it'll be hard to replace that shortfall with extra sales. Fingers crossed that Alamy - with PA's extra 'muscle' - can exploit this vast compendium of imagery (rather than just exploiting the contributors 🙁)...

One of my first pix on Alamy. Never sold (can't even recall it being zoomed). A footpath in the Lake District...