Osteospermum 2 November 2025

My Rosemary often told me that whatever skill and job performance I had as a photographer had all to do with a good support staff. I must now stress how right she was.

I have often written here that digital cameras assert their ability to have free will even though they are inanimate objects. A few months back during a session in my piano room my Fuji X-E3 refused to work as it told me that it wanted to pair with my cell phone.

The latest intrusion of my X-E3 was that when I used flash in my little studio the results had much too much contrast. Jeff Gin and his wife Teena (I call her Pearl for the finish of Ilford photographic paper) came over on Sunday and after a little late breakfast solved the problem. I wanted to in some way to correspond and show them my gratitude. Teena noticed a late flowering osteospermum. I told her I was going to scan it and make a print. This I did.

As I was removing the little dust particles on my monitor with my Photoshop 8 the dusting tool stopped working. Jeff came to the rescue and told me I had inadvertently had it in another mode. I said nothing, after he fixed it, as I well knew all about what I can now define as free will.