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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston
© Mike Johnston 2002

Fog, photograph by Glenn Gordon
Good Morning! One of the pleasures and benefits of writing this column every week is the steady volume of mail it generates from interesting people all over the world. Last week's column, "Confessions of a Cameraholic," obviously struck a chord in this respect — I heard from a number of people who had some sort of response to it, including many rueful accounts of peoples' own "cameraholism." This week, I thought I'd share with you a couple of the more remarkable e-mails it generated.
The first one comes from Alan Clark, in England. I responded to Alan that I didn't know whether to thank him or not! But he assures me that his intention to go cold-turkey on photo writers was tongue-in-cheek. Actually, I'm not so sure that's such a bad idea...and I'll leave it to you to figure out whetherthat'stongue-in-cheek or not!

Mike,
I'm a big fan of your Sunday morning essays an...

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