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In the days of film, Photographers carried 400 pounds of cameras & Lighting, today a digital camera, couple of lenses, several mini flashes linked by infra red, a few 2 GB compact flash cards, GSM cell, Blackberry and off we go. No more 400 lbs.

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Swiss International Air Lines

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Freelancers do not travel business class. We are always looking for a replacement for our beloved but long gone Pan Am. I have tried economical SWISS to Switzerland. The old Swissair went bankrupt however the new low cost SWISS flys directly to central Geneva home to many low cost airlines linking all of Europe. Next year the situation can only get better. With the open skys agreement SWISS may be landing at Fresno & Omaha, anywhere people want to go. O.K. maybe not Frasno.

Updated May 12, 2007

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Lacie 250 GB Mini Hard Drive

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I have long left gear where I work but now I simply carry my LaCie 250 megabite portable hard drive with pictures and work that I might need, no more DVDs rolling around in the isle.

Updated May 12, 2007

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Laguiole Knife

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Somewhere at the bottom of my CHECKED bags is a French Laguiole knife, 4 “ blade, corkscrew, and marlin spike. The blade is good for spreading tripple cream cheese and nicking cigars, the corkscrew obvious, and the spike good for prying anything open and getting knots out of my Piloti driving shoes.

Updated May 12, 2007

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Prototipo British Racing Green

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Several years ago my legs were ingured in a Paraglider crash the feet don’t send up all the Information you need for balance. I discovered these neat driving shoes called Pilotis, they are Shaved on the bottom to better feel the pedals in down shifts. I like to drive like
Hell but more important, I can walk easier. Very stylish, just tell everyone your Stirling Moss.

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C.C. Filson Jacket

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What to wear? Everyone has something and photographers need pockets. The entire World wears those jungle Jim vests, Ibut too plain for me. C.C. Filson of Seattle, Washington made clothes for the 1898 gold rushers,
they still make honest green jackets with lots of pockets and a swade collor. Your suppose to put this waterproof wax on but I find mine breaths better without the stuff.
They come in many lengths and have zipin liners for the arctic.

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Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris

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Last should have been first. This is about a book & a bottle of wine.
The book, BETWEEN MEALS, An Appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling. The author in 1929
Took his education money for the Sorbonne and instead, spent it visiting Paris resturants. By the time his father caught up to his ruse, he had decided to become a writer and a trencherman extrodinare. To discover Life at such a young age?

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Cepparello by Isole e Olena

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The bottle of wine. Years ago in Tuscany, I was eating lunch in a place full of wine producers. Several of them seated at different tables were drinking the same bottle, Cepparello by Isole e Olena. I thought it was interesting that the wine makers were spending money on someone else’s Super Tuscan, not their own. The wine was not expensive and delious. Hmmm?
When I asked a wine maker about the man who made the wine, a certain Paolo Dimarchi, he simply said, “we all learn from him.” Years later I met Paolo and he invited me to photograph his beatiful vineyards.


The quality of Cepparello will vary with the year’s vintage but no one will deny the greatness because of the labor and character of this man.

Updated May 12, 2007

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