Hi Catherine,
Thank you for your kind comments. I was worried it was a bit dull, so you've
reassured me a bit.
Regards,
Matt

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Sent: 21 November 2004 14:34
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Subject: Re: New sub: Developments


Hi Matt - you have dealt with what could actually be quite a dull subject
with real delicacy.  I enjoyed this.

best wishes

Catherine
>
>Developments
>
>Years he waited in vain for something unseen
>to emerge from the emulsion under safe light.
>In the early days, the loved one, long departed,
>leaning into shot over someone's shoulder,
>
>or the woman who gave Corkscrew Lane
>its bad name, ghosting past unwitting witnesses.
>In the 70s, of course, it was spacemen and saucers,
>and he would scan the skies above wedding scenes
>
>for signs of life on other planets. Now he enjoys
>the digital delay, that frozen second between
>button and display. Sometimes no amount
>of experience can prepare him for the way,
>
>in six expensive megapixels, late sun picks out
>the blush on a wintering goosander's white breast,
>where moments earlier there was only a man,
>a settling pool, a monochrome afternoon.
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