A simple street scene in nice light.

[Cornfield]

Don't know how I managed to get this with so few people in it.

[D Fuller]

I love the scene. But I have to say I wish there were more people in it.

[francois]

The place looks a bit deserted but I like it a lot. The quality of the light is excellent.

[KLaban]

Puts me in mind of a square we frequent in Venice, but without the people.

[Cornfield]

Thanks for the comments.  I should have said it is Venice but not a typlical shot.

I shoot stock virtually full time and this is an image that will sell well.

[KLaban]

Thanks for the comments.  I should have said it is Venice but not a typlical shot.

I shoot stock virtually full time and this is an image that will sell well.

I know the square well. Just avoid that osteria on the far right, like you would the plague: crooks.

[Rob C]

I know the square well. Just avoid that osteria on the far right, like you would the plague: crooks.

Keith, it's in Venice... you should be going to Harry's Bar looking for the spirits of the late Michael (Winner) - or AA Gill.

;-)

[KLaban]

Keith, it's in Venice... you should be going to Harry's Bar looking for the spirits of the late Michael (Winner) - or AA Gill.

;-)

Together with Café Florian?

But in all honesty I've no interest in visiting the fashionable, obvious and extortionate.

;-) 

[Rob C]

Together with Café Florian?

But in all honesty I've no interest in visiting the fashionable, obvious and extortionate.

;-)

For the experience, I'd rather spend some hours in the Café de Flore in Paris with the ghosts of my old favourites including Jeanloup Sieff!

Of those moments I enjoyed with Ann, sitting in an outdoor bar of the Carlton in Cannes, she with her Campari Soda in hand, and I with my G&T, watching a helicopter negotiate its business on a yacht in the bay was about as unreal as it gets. I asked the PR manager of that hotel if we could shoot some images on the property; he asked for which client, and when told it was for a beer company, he ever so nicely refused, saying the images would clash... ironically, however, we got our petty revenge by sitting out in the bay on a Riva, shooting our model and a can of the stuff with the entire hotel visible in the background.

That's partly what I meant with my pro and personal photography being the same buzz.

[KLaban]

She looks like she needs that beer to cool down.

;-)

[Jeremy Roussak]

Keith, it's in Venice... you should be going to Harry's Bar looking for the spirits of the late Michael (Winner) - or AA Gill.

I'd have loved to have had a chance to meet Gill, a witty man and superb writer. Winner I think I have managed very well without.

Jeremy

[KLaban]

I'd have loved to have had a chance to meet Gill, a witty man and superb writer. Winner I think I have managed very well without.

Jeremy

I'd loved to have met him too, just not in Harry's.

[Rob C]

I'd have loved to have had a chance to meet Gill, a witty man and superb writer. Winner I think I have managed very well without.

Jeremy

I think I really took to the print persona of the "poor boy from Willesden"; whether his style with words and culture was a literary fabrication for press purposes or not is over my head to know, but his casual throwaways about Portofino etc. gave me much fun, as in his place I could envisage people I knew at the time. Gill was simply fascinating. In the years I read him, I never got the slightest hint as to the identity of the blonde.

Surprisingly, another Sunday Times stalwart whom I enjoyed was Jeremy Clarkson; funny in print, but a total bore (to me) on that car show for kids: Top Gear.

[Rob C]

She looks like she needs that beer to cool down.

;-)

Almost, but not quite: the cooling down need was the skipper's.

During that set, Ann was using the spray bottle to kep the T-shirt wet, and the skipper asked if he could do that. The model laughed her assent and so he managed to get himself a story for the grandkids. And I for LuLa. Who would have thought...

Rob

[Jeremy Roussak]

I think I really took to the print persona of the "poor boy from Willesden"; whether his style with words and culture was a literary fabrication for press purposes or not is over my head to know, but his casual throwaways about Portofino etc. gave me much fun, as in his place I could envisage people I knew at the time. Gill was simply fascinating. In the years I read him, I never got the slightest hint as to the identity of the blonde.

Nicola Formby, I think.

Surprisingly, another Sunday Times stalwart whom I enjoyed was Jeremy Clarkson; funny in print, but a total bore (to me) on that car show for kids: Top Gear.

Oh, Rob, Top Gear wasn't a car show. It was a program in which three middle-aged overgrown schoolboys had fun, doing really silly things. But I agree with you about Clarkson's writing.

Jeremy

[D Fuller]

Nicola Formby, I think.

Oh, Rob, Top Gear wasn't a car show. It was a program in which three middle-aged overgrown schoolboys had fun, doing really silly things. But I agree with you about Clarkson's writing.

Jeremy

And it developed quite a following among those other middle-aged chaps whomwould have liked to do those silly things themselves. A group, if I’m honest, in which I must include myself.   

[Jeremy Roussak]

And it developed quite a following among those other middle-aged chaps who would have liked to do those silly things themselves. A group, if I’m honest, in which I must include myself.   

I'll join.

Jeremy