by David Middleton | Jan 15, 2023 | Articles, On Photography, Thoughts
There are rules, guidelines, suggestions, recommendations, procedures, instructions and directions in photography and all of them are handy most of the time and dreadful some of the time. As is said “Rules are made to be broken.” But there are also Laws in photography...
by David Middleton | May 30, 2022 | Writing Journal
I have several rules to writing. OK, there are not really rules. Let’s call them strong suggestions. None of these are original and I take no credit for any of them, but all have proved true over my 30 years of writing. The suggestions are not listed by importance...
by David Middleton | May 30, 2022 | Writing Journal
Since you didn’t ask, I thought I would give you, my lone reader, a personalized insider’s view of the hows, whys and wherefores of writing a book. I have done this 12 times in the past and I still don’t really know how it happens and I certainly haven’t learned how...
by David Middleton | May 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Joan Townsend met Hugh Bromley in Brussels in 1944 during WWII. She was a sergeant in the British army and a translator for the Royal Corps of Signals and he was a sergeant in General Patton’s 3d army. She grew up in Wimbledon, England, a London city girl and he grew...
by David Middleton | May 30, 2022 | Farm Journal
“Do you know what time it is?” I ask Roger one day while we are switching a full hay wagon for an empty one during a break picking up bales. I have the tongue of the empty wagon in my hands as Roger is backing the tractor up to me.“I don’t know,” Roger says over his...