Anyone can take pictures, but today's sophisticated cameras make it almost too easy - they are prone to turning out results that are merely average unless the photographer knows how to exploit his equipment to the full. This book is for people who want to take consistently better pictures - brilliant prints and slides with that extra quality of vividness and sparkle so often lacking in run-of-t…
Friends and colleagues have been generous with their memories and their expertise. I would like to thank Esmee Slattery and Bernadette McAloon for recollections of their Durham child hood, Roger Forsdyke for police procedure, Carl Keifer, Martin Leichte and other members of the Kodak Camera news group on the Internet for information on the Box Brownie,
No criminal is more feared and none harder to catch than a killer who chooses his victims among strangers, whose only motive is the perverse pleasure generated by the very act of killing-always in the most savage ways imaginable.
Born of filth, he stood on the river-bed, feet anchored, completely submerged. A lily of hair floated on the surface. His buoyant arms rose like angel wings. Though weak, standing by the dock current streamed at his back. The river worked to uproot him.
The writing of this book required considerable research. It is with great gratitude I acknowledge those who have been so wonderfully helpful.
Owl is Billy's best friend, the only friend he's got to play with. Until, that is, the 'Spaceman' comes to live in his road. Billy has all kinds of adventures with Owl and his new friend, including a trip to the fair, a visit to a new school and a wedding.
Having moved, like Paula, from a smallish draughty house in London to a larger, even draughtier house in the country, I identify so much with what she describes. Marvellously funny, perceptive and sometimes poignant.
The formal ball usually begins with the rigodon de honor, a qudrille by seven coples, six along the hall's lenght and one in the middle, underneath a ball of mirrors spinning on its axis, piercing space with the pink, blue, yellow, and purple of reflected light, reflected images, its harsh brilliance
Is a villagebuilt entirely in the Ancient Egyptian style, inhabited by some 300 Egyptians living in the Ancient Egyptian atmosphere and practising all the agricultural and industrial activities wiyh the same tools and implements used in Ancient Egypt.