There are now only days until we have our Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice and how better to introduce our Sunrise/Sunset Galleria?. Well, there may have been better ways but our dysfunctional School Latin meant that we had to rake around through distant memories of lessons learnt, of which there were few and consider just what acres of knowledge remained totally unexposed to our unscholarly teen-age brains. It must be said that this first draft is being created by Robaire, who quickly scooted out of Latin some 63/64 years ago when he learnt that Geography was available in Year 9. Therefore, the whole text will be vetted by young Wazza, whose Latin sentence was so much longer and, one hopes, will be better able to refine these halting words, which are only here to welcome our visitors to those times we photographers strive to use. Sunrises and Sunsets. Welcome.

Unfortunately, Wazzas Latin degenerated to the realms of Nihil bastardo carborundum, many decades back when as one hundred and thirty fifth in a class of one hundred and twenty one he was bundled out into French. That too proved intractable in the faces of la Place de La Concorde taxi drivers en route to Nueille. So we shall leave the draft mon braves as it is with a passing tale. The Sun after all, is indeed all for human kind. We have vast photography, Temples in Aegypt, Street alignments, Arches in Paris, StoneHenge, Carnac and Karnak, gorgeously tanned Princesses and some frightful sunburns prior to 35+++ to prove it. It spins our World. And in the end it will destroy it. No matter what we do about climate change, Kyoto and protocols.

There you go. What would you expect from a classicist, a frustrated archaeologist and indeed, a futurist, using the past to foretell all manner of Doomsdays. Maybe he is short on sunsets, I know he's good at sunrises. Hey-ho. Welcome anyway and stay in the shade.

Latest 29 July 2011