I will have a very nice announcement coming up whenever the site gets up to full speed again, in early or mid September. Right around the corner now. It concerns my friend Ailsa, in Brighton, UK.
I guess this post is just a lame content-free tease, like the corporations tend to do now. (No, Ailsa is not getting a new Miata.) But I'm really looking forward to telling you about it, so be on the lookout.
Mike
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Eric Rose: "Ailsa is the best. Enjoyed working with her when I wrote an article for Black & White Photography magazine (UK). A true class act. Good photographer too."
Designer? Model? Vegetable enthusiast? (Hey, if you're going to tease, we have to amuse ourselves somehow!)
Posted by: David Dyer-Bennet | Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 01:56 PM
I know! You are going to give up all that modern colour stuff, and go monochrome. The site will be all different, with lovely pale grey shades for the background, and the text a lovely zone 1. The pool post photos will be a little harder to follow, but you can delight us with descriptions of photographer's work that tell us what colours the pictures have. : ]
Posted by: Roger Bradbury | Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 02:33 PM
She's going to be your assistant / deputy editor?
Posted by: Patrick Dodds | Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:01 PM
You're upping sticks and moving here. Am I right? I'll pop over and help with Lightroom—you'll never look back.
Posted by: Bahi | Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:42 PM
...Ailsa is not getting a new Miata...
Well of course not, Mike.
One would be better advised to purchase a pre-owned Leyland Motors Spitfire MK IV...in British Racing Green, of course...
Regards,
Jim
Posted by: Jim Hart | Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 08:48 PM
Will Ailsa be relocating and work for TOP? Or head the UK branch? Or perhaps it involves romance? :)
Posted by: toto | Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 10:04 PM
Whatever the news about Ailsa, maybe now's a good time to tell us how to pronounce her name?
Posted by: Carl Siracusa | Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 05:34 AM
I wonder what it is! I always enjoyed Black and White Photography Magazine (mind you, I get to brag that one of my pictures was used for the Cover of issue No.64, Oct.2006...shot with my Mamiya 6, which Ailsa uses as well...)
Posted by: ben ng | Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 04:10 PM
There's going to be a TOP UK Readers' meeting in Brighton, with a beer break at the Craft pub, of course....
Posted by: Dop | Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 07:24 PM
Whatever the news about Ailsa, maybe now's a good time to tell us how to pronounce her name?
Surely there is only one way.
Posted by: Steve Smith | Monday, 01 September 2014 at 02:39 AM
Waiting for the news...
robert
Posted by: robert quiet photographer | Monday, 01 September 2014 at 05:18 AM
I still read B&W photography, but I feel it was better with Ailsa at the helm. So if she's contributing to TOP it can only be good!
Posted by: Mark | Monday, 01 September 2014 at 06:11 AM
Hmmm... Xander back at school; new digs settled into; some kind of assistant to keep things running?
Could this finally come to pass?
Posted by: MarkB | Monday, 01 September 2014 at 08:12 PM