As a 75 year-old obsolete-redundant & retired photographer I have lots of perhaps useful information in my head gained from having made many mistakes through the years.

I still insist that even as an OR&R you are as good as your last photograph. Tonight I will be taking portraits of the exquisite French dancer Sandrine Cassini in my little studio.

And looking back to the late 70s when I began to shoot photographs in Vancouver I wrote about the Samuda twins and two sisters (4 in all) here. I had photographed them for a very good talent agency. I knew very little of what I was doing but somehow the portrait side of me and not my vacant talent for fashion side of me prevailed and I managed to take pleasant photographs of four beautiful women.

I really failed with the twins as they were not strictly identical. The tricks I attempted did not work.

With the sisters I managed. But I want to show here how my concept of modeling shots was off. Why would I have photographed them in bikinis on top of a dresser? Why would I have used a wide angle shot from a low angle? And please note the plant coming out of Angela's head! You live and learn and I did manage to live and learn.

The four Samudas are in my thoughts as I recently contacted Rita Samuda and she sent a photograph of 6 of them and furthermore she informed me that a seventh sister is currently in California and will return in the spring.

You might guess that I could not resist in telling them I wanted them to all pose for me. I cannot wait!