Stuck at home

Home Photography by Andrew Sanderson: I have to stop going into bookshops for at least a few years if books like this keep coming out. And I swore I wasn't going to buy any more tutorial books. Good job the floor under our bookcases is solid concrete.

Actually, this is less a tutorial and more a philosophical tome. And the photographs are fantastic. You'll look at your home completely differently afterwards, and probably take a lot more pictures around it. Very inspiring.

Update, 2004-01-26: My full review is at Nikonians. Andrew Sanderson's web site is finally up (NB. not the URL in the book), and you can find some of his stock images at Trevillion or visit his gallery (Sanderson, George & Peach) in Holmfirth, Yorks. [Andrew: Many thanks for your kind email. I did reply, but I'm not sure if you got it.]

Some quotes from the book that seem particularly apposite to Internet photography forums and their rampant gear mania:

"We can easily find ourselves getting a little too wrapped up in concerns which have no real bearing on the outcome of the picture. ...The standard of your work will not necessarily depend on your equipment, nor will it depend on your choice of materials as such..." (p. 58)

"Many amateurs would see a big improvement in their work if they stopped reading and worrying so much, and simply went out and shot a mile of film." (p. 68)

"...Most users of 35mm do not achieve the maximum quality that these cameras are capable of, due to sloppy technique." (p. 122)

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