JOHN NEWTON PHOTOGRAPHY A PICTURE BOOK (Colour) Pictures (great) from the portfolio of my old friend John ("the world's third worst photographer" so he says. "Taken from the portfolio of an unappreciated, unsung genius photographer: Whose constantly brilliant world class works go unheralded, unnoticed, for far too long... etc" And shared by "the world's worst photographer". Editor's Note: Just trying to learn about digital publishing and especially about doing a picture book (in COLOUR, "Take the first step in faith. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THE whole staircase, just take the first step." - Dr Martin Luther King, Jnr "The journey of a thousand miles starts with a flat tyre and a broken fan-belt... er sorry, a single step." "You think you have a limit. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high." - Ayrton Senna PPS Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci "Art is at the highest reach of one's creative imagination." "Your only limits are your own imagination." "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German philosopher and poet. "They were like artists. What was envisioned in their minds happened on the pitch*." * and/or camera, canvas, screen, page of a book "Talent does what it can genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Web sites: https: //dreammerchantsite.wordpress.com and http: //jetpix.wordpress.com/ + www.johnsphotopics.wordpress.com and www.capetownmypictures.wordpress.com
About the Author: Born in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, I would say that a considerable portion of my very early years were spent taking the sunshine, beaches and oceans totally for granted. Our front door was never locked, my mother safe in the knowledge that we were happy on the beach, or what to us were, huge sand dunes under the watchful eyes of the numerous retired senior citizens that spent time in those locations. Everybody knew everybody, deeds of daring do or more accurately daring shouldn't do never went unreported. What a halcyon life we led, have loved the sea ever since. After school, an ill-timed stint at University punctuated by military service and the an opportunity arose to complete the Law degree and secure a sustainable future or risk everything on a trip overseas to race cars a no brainer, so I bowed down to studies ... not. My love affair with racing cars started long before at the age of 11 my Dad helped me to begin to race Go-karts. We progressed to entry-level single seat race cars, very exciting full blown Sports Racing cars and later the brutal fully modified Saloon Cars, loved and miss them all . A passion for fast motorbikes went hand-in-glove with my other pursuits in the name of "The Need for Speed" which in those days had absolutely nothing to do with amphetamines, just common or garden adrenaline, self supplied. My Dad a "Hardly Abelson " man rode several Harleys in various stages of development in the self same quest to piss off the Traffic Department. It's these odd moments that effect you precisely at that time and perhaps return every now and again to prod one's deeper soul and reflect on just who or what you've become. So, no, I didn't sell the boat and start a sanctuary for orphaned Tuna fish nor did I take up a position with Greenpeace. But what I did do was pick up my camera again and years later I've picked up another camera. This will give me a chance to send a smile or hopefully a laugh wrapped up in a picture to anyone who cares to share these pages. Holy Mackerel, I hear you say, what's your point ? My point is this, if you have passions in your life, mine are capturing a moment of life in a photo, riding a motorbike, loving animals and you can get to do these things life has blessed you. I'm certainly not wealthy moneywise, but I'm richer than most millionaires. So from now on the editorial will be 75% photographic and 75% entertainment, that sounds about the right mix. Till then, Best wishes John https: //jetpix.wordpress.com/