Wonderful Image

[Mike Farley]

I found this on Mike Johnston's* The Online Photographer blog, so I'll leave him to tell more. The shot has a lot of things going for it, among them human interest, politics (American, so hopefully not too contentious for here), religion and cameras.

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.co ... l#comments

There are a couple of comments I enjoyed. One was the description of Donald Trump as "America's car alarm going off for no reason", the other being the camera count in one of the highlighted remarks. Or to be more accurate, the mobile phone tally since they significantly outnumbered conventional cameras. I reckoned I could see two of the latter**, not one, but no matter as it is a reflection of the current state of photography. And doubtless precious few prints will result, but a lot of Facebook.

* Mike Johnston has just completed his second move in less than 12 months in order to be closer to his girlfriend and seems to have got back to work*** very quickly in his new abode. He has been one of the best commenters of the photography scene, but his personal life has intervened over the past 18 months or so. I, for one, hope that he is now settled and will be returning to form.

** There is a video camera in there as well.

*** Revenue produced by the blog is MJ's main form of income so he needs to up his game. He knows it.