blaker on photography
Item:
Photography – Art and Technique, by Alfred Blaker.
Why It’s Here:
There were actually eleven—eleven!—other books by Blaker, deposited at the swapmeet table over time, though all the rest were deposited before this site came into being.
This is simply the capstone, the final, twelfth volume in the Blaker’s dozen.
Probable Recipient:
Me, actually. Despite the copious evidence on this site to the contrary, I sometimes try to take good photographs. And anything that might help me make short, stumbling steps in the general direction of competence deserves to be saved from the swapmeet and left, unread, on the floor of my apartment indefinitely.
Pulitzer, here I come!
That Blaker’s dozen pun. Really.
Look, I’d like to see you do better! You think this is easy? You think this sort of thing just writes itself?
Oh, I know! I’ll just head on over to your website at giftexchange.laundromat.com and see what sort of wonderful brilliant things you have to say about Alfred Blaker’s non-fiction works, and—oh wait, there’s no such website!
So quit smothering me!
[slams door to bedroom]
bjkeefe Said,
October 15, 2006 @ 12:41 am
No need to slam the door. I *liked* the Blaker’s dozen line.
But the tizzy was pretty good, too.
Josh Millard Said,
October 15, 2006 @ 7:57 am
So you approve, then, of having the tizzy in the hizzy?