Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.