Take One of Me, Mister! I was out walking with the old Nikkormat FTn and a Vivitar 300mm f/5.6 (a huge lens that I never did like much) when this lad and his mates decided to pose. So I turned and grabbed the picture. A bit soft on focus (that 300mm was a terrible thing to focus – so far to turn) and taken on Ilford HP4 in my 1970s grainy period, but I like the (lucky) composition. It made it to one exhibition, but apart from that no-one else liked it much!

• 1977 Lea Valley Photographic Society 29th Annual Exhibition

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