Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's what I call a GOOD Leica story! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 7:01 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >