[HUG] Re: The Hasselblad Letters No.2

Dear Nephew Bill,

        I can readily see where your approach to photography might be a good
answer to the frustrations of dealing with people. But surely you venture
into other problematic provinces. You might go out chasing your landscape,
having researched it carefully and planned all the accessories and angles -
and then find that a tour bus has parked itself in your foreground. Or the
weather has closed in. Or all the foozelberry trees have dropped their
leaves and look like dead bodies on the horizon.

        And the buildings cannot be easy - at least most of the people I
photograph do not have vertical sides nor do they expect to be rendered so.
And the studio light is infinitely more controllable than the sun. Try
repositioning it sometime and see what thanks you get.

        I find my level of frustration and anger rises fairly slowly for a
while and then starts to take a verticality on the graph....right up to the
point where I realise that the person causing all the grief is really a
wally and then I start to laugh at them and at myself. This lets me get on
with the job in hand but unfortunately I can never recapture the
serious-professional-artist-in-residence mein and tend thereafter to unnerve
the sitter.

        This is the same in my surgery - When I eventually laugh at you it
will be for my benefit, not yours. And a laughing man with a periosteal
elevator is no laughing matter. You'd be amazed how far into an antrum one
can get before the nurse dives over the chair and wrests the instrument
away....

 Kindly Old Uncle Dick

          

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