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‘What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha? Ian Hay, The housemaster, 1936

I wonder whether we make our photography too stressful; lugging half a ton of kit up a mountain, agonising about our choice of cameras, lenses, filters and other gizmos we need to pack, wrestling with the three-legged octopus and – above all, waiting for that magic light or decisive moment that rarely chooses to oblige. In our quest for the sublime, it is easy to forget that most of us were inducted into our passion for the sheer fun and pleasure it gave us. Do we risk taking our passion all too seriously? I am a devotee of that old chestnut that ‘the best camera is the one you have with you’. I never go...

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