Tom on the beach  
Nearest I've got so far to a Cartier-Bresson. My son Tom was running
along the beach where my parents lived in Wales, and this shot popped
up. Nikkormat EL, 35mm f2 wideangle

Passiers: Learning a lesson  
Stayed in the Dordogne in France in 1975, and M. and Mme. Passier were
our temporary neighbours. I would pop in to drink home made sweet wine
and watch Eddy Merckx*, the Lance Armstrong of his day, (only better)
destroy the opposition in the Tour de France. I took my camera over to
their house one day and shot this. I love it as a shot that captures
'La France profonde', the heart of France and that rural, semi-peasant
way of life that is slowly dying out.

Shooting it also taught me a lesson. I was using Kodachrome, the 25 ASA
super saturated original color slide film. I had a Pentax Spotmatic, and
an f2 35mm wideangle. In the darkness of their house, lit only by the
intense sunlight pouring through the door, the exposure showed up as 1
second at f2. I had no tripod (hardly ever use one), so I shot
handheld . The slide is pin sharp. So shoot anyway- you can always throw
it away- and sometimes it'll work.

* He will always be honoured amongst British cyclists because he was the
only fellow professional who travelled to Britain to the funeral of Tom
Simpson, the British cyclist who died in the 1967 Tour de France.