Tuesday, September 18, 2012




Sometimes I believe in the photographic version of movie cross casting. In cross casting you choose the wrong actor to play the part with the idea than a new focus might be brought in to what might seem like an old and conventional part. If the actor (or actress) fails then the actor (or actress) is said to be miscast.

An example of this would be Michael Caine who played, famously, the unnamed hero of his spy thrillers. For the purpose of pleasing the ignorant populace the unnamed hero was given the name of Harry Palmer. Anybody who knows would have thought that the cool, collected and internal Christopher Plummer would have been superb. That would have been the case except that Plummer turned the role down and Michael Caine became the Caine we know by playing Harry Palmer to perfection.

To go on Sunday to Boundary Bay in Point Roberts and to take a Nikon FM loaded with Fujifilm Fujicolor Superia (sound like a car!) rated at1600 ISO would seem crazy as the day was beautiful and full of the unwanted contrast that such a day brings to portraits. Nonetheless I am pleased how my 10-year-old granddaughter Rebecca Anne Stewart looks in this picture. She is the sophisticated little girl she is choosing to become.