Hugh Hamilton

Johnny Carter's been training young swimmers at Sydney's Palm Beach for over fifty years. To see him work is to see another era in action. All the boys get called Jimmy and all the girls Maggie, no matter what their real names are. There is no political correctness here, but the kids seem to love it. These were shot in January 2008 at my friend Ruth's suggestion, since her son William was one of the kids in these pictures.

In San Francisco last week I had five minutes with Dr Alan Trounson of The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. He's another Australian, the father of IVF in my country and thus a number of my friends owe their children to him....I think. No one tells me who had what or did what but I have my suspicions....anyway, a very quick picture. Lit with my little Canon 550's. Canon sure make better cameras (just my opinion) than Nikon but Nikon have much better strobes. Getting those little Canon buggers to sync up and fire the way I want is HARD.