Sunday Morning - March 30, 2003

SMP's Gala First Anniversary
 

Good morning! Today marks the first anniversary of the publication of "The Sunday Morning Photographer" on the Web. This is the 45th column, which means I only missed eight Sundays during the past year. Considering I do this for yuks, that ain't such a bad record.

I started writing this column for two reasons. First, because it frustrated me to spent a lot of time writing long, involved e-mails that only one person or a few people got to see; and second, to keep myself working.
A former co-worker of mine at the last magazine I worked for was the unintended inspiration. What happened was that after the publisher of that magazine established a website, this co-worker went around complaining loudly and bitterly that he wanted to write a monthly column on the website but hadn't been invited to write for it at all. Thinking I was doing him a favor (silly me), I interceded on his behalf, and discovered that the webmaster would, in fact, welcome a col...