These are a few of my favourite things, in no particular order.
- Morning bike rides.
- Eating al Italiano with the beautiful redhead.
- Being at the Le Mans 24 hours with the boys.
- Italian cars and motorcycles, especially Alfa Romeo and Ducati.
- The click of a shutter, "letting the light sweep in".
- Manual, mechanical cameras: Leica, Hasselblad, Rolleiflex, Retina.
- Wide-angle lenses: Biogon, Distagon, Super-Angulon.
- My Durst Modular 70 enlarger, with 50mm Leitz Focotar and 80mm Schneider Componon lenses.
- Ilford HP5+ film developed in Rodinal with 50gm/litre of sodium sulphite.
- Ilford Multigrade RC and FB paper.
- Being in the darkroom, it's so peaceful.
- Photos by Cartier-Bresson, Salgado, David Vestal, Jean-Loup Sieff, Giorgia Fiorio,
Larry Siegel and too many more to list.
- Juan Manuel Fangio, five times World Champion, 24 Grand Prix victories from 51 starts, the greatest Formula One driver of all.
- Guild acoustic guitars. "Hand built by Guild in an otherwise imperfect world."
- Starfires and Stratocasters.
- Latin jazz.
- Brazilian supergroup Azymuth.
- Marie-Laure de Decker with her Leicaflex
- Cities, especially London, Paris and Antwerp.
- Gibraltar.
- Driving on uncrowded roads in France.
- Not being in any particular hurry.
- Object-oriented programming languages.
- Dancing Salsa.
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