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Recommended read.

I finished Rabbit Redux a little while ago, and it is still a book to recommend. Though read Rabbit, Run, first as it's the first in the series. Excellent, observational fiction with a journalistic feel.

So my next recommendation is a book I read last year, but can't leave it un-recommended any longer. It's John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". It's an absolute classic and will leave you emotionally shredded, especially when read in today's climate of financial fear.

I won't go into too much detail, but just to say that The Grapes of Wrath covers the American depression of the 1930s and focuses on the Joad family as they join the great migration from East to West in search of a livelihood, food and dignity. If you're after happy endings, steer clear of this one. It is grippingly honest and does not pull any punches.

You'll read this, and realise that the human race never seems to learn much...

Many thanks...

Mon Jul 6, 2009, 12:40 PM
to all the watchers and friends for all the comments and the amazing response to my latest shoot with Zoe! *Serenity-Falls

For fans of the Zoe/Tim partnership, the good news is that our original shoot plan got ignored as we veered off course with all these ideas so we still have at least another shoot to do involving sweet stickiness! So I look forward to seeing my message centre go into meltdown some time soon.

Apologies if you faved and I didn't say thank you personally. I've just been so busy! which is good because some of it is actual, paying work, so I might remain a professional photographer a while longer!

In other news... well there isn't any really. I'm covering a local charity fashion shoot tomorrow evening (I volunteered to photograph it in return for print sales, of which there will not be many!) and I might post some of those up. I'm looking forward to that because I rarely get to shoot fashion, and never catwalk stuff. Ok, so it's at a small venue, but it'll be fun!

Ok, I'll leave you good people to go back to your lives now.

Thank you for your time, always appreciated...

  • Mood: Cheerful
  • Listening to: tinnitus.
  • Reading: Rabbit Redux, John Updike
  • Watching: Money go out, always out.
  • Playing: with myself (still!) *nearly blind now
  • Eating: can't afford food, don't be rediculous
  • Drinking: can't be bothered answering any more of these sill

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The specimen of a man you see here is me.

I'm a professional freelance photographer based in Somerset, England (that's the one with London in).

Whaddya wanna know? why the pressure, man? I can't take this!

Legal bit:

It goes without saying (though I'll say it anyway) that all my work is protected by copyright. I don't offer the download facility on my pictures, so please don't use other methods to download them.

The only living I make is from taking pictures and licensing their use and reproduction. If you're going to commit theft, just remember you're not just stealing from me. You're stealing from my wife and children too.

Like my photos?

My professional portfolio can be seen here [link] and you can buy licences to use my work at Stock photography by Tim+Gander at Alamy

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Hello! What for? I did nothing! :love:
hahaha.. you faved one of my photo's :tighthug:

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But of course! I only fave great works ;) :hug:

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