A tough couple of weeks for photography

with the Magnum great Rene Burri and the American Ray Metzker both passing away recently, the world has lost a couple of very talented individuals. We had dinner with some friends on Friday evening and I was lucky enough to come home with a couple of loaner books on Metzker's work- his black and white photography was just stunning.
Changing the clocks this morning made me think just how close to Christmas and the end of the year we are. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, but we will know more in another month  :-)

Just tossing a picture from our great visit to Piemont last year up on the blog. I don't believe that it has made an appearance before, but I was prompted to show it here after I had printed it and was very happy with the way it came out.

Tune Of The Day:  Gun Street Girl      by Tom Waits

It has been difficult

settling back into the idea of getting up early and going to work each day after such an enjoyable holiday break.....

Although it wasn't hot in Italy, we are certainly moving on towards winter here and there is snow expected tomorrow down to 1000m, which means rain and cool weather around these here parts.

Enough to make one look forward to the weekend!

Tune of the Day:  Hurricane   by Bob Dylan

It doesn't get much better....

The food has been great, the wine most enjoyable, the company exceptional but the highlight of the week has been Dan's t-shirt.

Tune of the Day:  Rocker.  By AC/DC