[Leica] Leica Stories and the effect of photographs

[Douglas Barry]

First I'd like to thank people for commenting on my photos, and secondly 
I'm looking forward to seeing the Yearbook which a FedEx text tells me 
is going to land at my door today. I don't know about the rest of you, 
but I'm a believer in deferred pleasure, so I didn't look at the pdf as 
I prefer to look at all your hard work on nice paper between two hard 
covers held in my hands.

And speaking of books, I cook a fair bit now, especially since my wife 
got ill. I use many recipe books, with my own sometimes inept 
variations, but the book I had out yesterday was the 70s/80s best seller 
Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course which has a photo of the author 
holding an egg. Our copy of the book is from the early 80s as Smith had 
a cookery programme on the TV at the time. It was very popular and 
resulted in sales all around the english speaking world. The cover in 
its own way was pretty iconic with its implications of a captured quiet 
confidence. This is the cover 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Delia+Smith.jpg.html which 
was taken by a photographer called John Timbers.

I looked him up to find he had died in 2006, but here is his obituary 
from the Guardian which has a small Leica story in it. 
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/15/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Douglas
For those familiar with Rolling Stones' LP covers of yore, Let It Bleed 
features a cake made by Smith.