ENTRY DESCRIPTION
These ash trees grow in a field near my workshop. I used to photograph them extensively when I first got the photography bug. But the response I usually get from the images is, "Oh, more of those trees." I have all but given up even thinking of snapping them. But when the weather is this unusual, I have to ignore the Philistines and pull out the Canon one more time.

AUTHOR
I spent twenty-five years as an archaeologist and academic publisher of archaeological books and journals. My interest was mainly architectural and, after years of dabbling with home improvements and restoring furniture, I made the leap to dealing in antiques and making furniture in the Arts & Crafts style. After a dozen years of designing furniture, I branched into making paints and varnishes out of natural plant oils and am now poised for one last change of profession.

I have been a keen amateur photographer for nearly two years, although I bought my first slr forty years ago. My father and his brother were taught darkroom skills by their father (my grandfather). My physicist father taught his two sons, my brother and myself. We both were keen photographers in our early adult years only to give it up after getting jobs and family. Both of us have taken it up again with great zeal. One of the possible motives has been that our uncle (my father's brother) went on to become a famous Canadian photographer. The great portrait photographer Gregory Heisler once answered the question "Who inspired you most?" with "Karsh and Samson". One of my favourite black and white images was taken as an homage to my uncle, whose print of the scene hangs in my workshop.

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