Hugh Hamilton

I've been in Sydney for the last two weeks, tidying up my life (my mother is selling her house and I needed to sort the storage of a lot of my life out). Yes, I was there for the dust storm. No, I did not photograph it..... More pictures seemed a little superfluous...given everyone in Sydney was frantically photographing it with any and every camera that was at hand.

I posted last week about my third place in the music section of The international Photo Awards, but I should have pointed I got an Honorable Mention in the Editorial Personality section (there are a lot of categories...on the other hand, there are a lot of entries too so just to make it into anything is pretty good I reckon).....

You can check out that gallery at 

http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/hmentionPRO.php

I'm in REALLY good company so I feel really honored, more so than the third place I got in the music section (see previous entry)

I have posted this picture before, but since taking this portrait I have managed to read the book he wrote, The Shadow of the Wind.

And it was really good. A love letter to the world of literature, as my journalist friend Helen (who did the interview) wrote. Highly recommended.

This is just a flashback. Way back when I was too young to know what I was doing, and still really an assistant,  I did manage to photograph Leslie for an old Sydney magazine called Stiletto. A hotel room, of course....he was great. Shook my hand, said, son I'm sixty something years old and I don't give a f%$%$#. What do you want me to do? I asked him to pull faces. I found this yesterday amidst some old papers. I'm posting it since I realise I've come full circle, through a long learning curve and lots of big productions and post production to realise I'm happiest with nothing more than a camera and a subject....