Two pairings from the original Shipping Forecast book (1997) that we’ll probably repeat in the new version.
Thank you for all the many considered suggestions following my last posting of possible pairings. All of them had support from someone, but thankfully I already knew which I’d use before sharing the set... otherwise I might have got very confused. It’s the same with this one (for me there is just one outstanding candidate) but you might like to see the various possibilities anyway. Again, each pairing does something very different.
Having found yet more new pictures in my SF contact sheets in the last two or three days the next stage is to try several possible pairings, in the hope that one works particularly well. I have no recollection of taking the picture on the left, but I’d like to include it. So here are eight possible pairings. Note how different the picture feels according to its mate (and it may work better on its own...).
Thank you for all the kind and encouraging words following my last post. Here are another 8 pictures discovered in the Shipping Forecast contact sheets this week. To those of you who suggested we expand the new book even further, here’s the simple answer: we can’t. Paper has already been ordered for the July printing, and we only have enough for 240 pages/120 spreads (unless, of course, we print fewer copies). So a slight rethink of the current sequence is required... a bit of a headache, but hopefully there’ll be an improvement.
Oh Lordy... just when I thought we were getting somewhere with the new Shipping Forecast edit/sequence I went through my 1,997 contact sheets once more, convinced I’d missed some interesting pictures. As a result, I discovered another 34. Talk about throwing a spanner in the works. Anyway, here are ten of them.
An interesting pair here, I think, because two fairly average pictures have become better together. I like it when this happens although, of course, you may disagree.
Sea areas Lundy and Portland.
The last picture I took during my last visit to the US in March. It’s in Denver.
A pair of cliffs.
Today... I love this man. Wesley Fofana missed three quarters of the season after a cynical foul by Nino broke his leg in a pre-season ‘friendly’ against Villarreal... and how we missed him. But Fofana was back a few weeks ago, performing as if he’d never been away, and suddenly the Foxes looked more solid defensively, though still horribly vunerable at corners. He was dominant again tonight as the Foxes survived a second half Chelsea onslaught to come away with a point in a 1-1 draw. Getting anything from Stamford Bridge is always something to celebrate (let’s not forget that Chelsea are, until next week, officially the best team in the world) and, with just one game left, Leicester still have a possible 8th-place finish in their sights...
