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| A Northern Eye - Chris Thomond's look back on 2012 starts today | A Northern Eye - Chris Thomond's look back on 2012 starts today |
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| One of the great treats of covering northern England for the Guardian is working with outstanding photographers, especially from the paper and website's own staff. | One of the great treats of covering northern England for the Guardian is working with outstanding photographers, especially from the paper and website's own staff. |
| In my 25 years here, I've often been out on the road with Denis Thorpe and the late Don McPhee whose names and images - the Orgreave miner and policeman, the Ribblehead viaduct with a train under steam - are part of Guardian history. | In my 25 years here, I've often been out on the road with Denis Thorpe and the late Don McPhee whose names and images - the Orgreave miner and policeman, the Ribblehead viaduct with a train under steam - are part of Guardian history. |
| For the last 20 years or so, I've also had Chris Thomond as a good companion; and have long wanted to get more of a showing of his pictures here on the Guardian Northerner. | For the last 20 years or so, I've also had Chris Thomond as a good companion; and have long wanted to get more of a showing of his pictures here on the Guardian Northerner. |
| There's no shortage of them elsewhere on the website or in the paper, commissioned by eager section editors, or in the case of the big double-page spread in the paper, often a study which struck him on his travels, or which he had heard about and wanted to go and see. | There's no shortage of them elsewhere on the website or in the paper, commissioned by eager section editors, or in the case of the big double-page spread in the paper, often a study which struck him on his travels, or which he had heard about and wanted to go and see. |
| But because of this sheer busy-ness, and the pace of daily news, we have tended on this page to use those of his photographs which came our way from the main Guardian picture archive; until today, when we start Northern Eye, or Thomond on Thursday, a weekly gallery of Chris's choices from the year gone by. | But because of this sheer busy-ness, and the pace of daily news, we have tended on this page to use those of his photographs which came our way from the main Guardian picture archive; until today, when we start Northern Eye, or Thomond on Thursday, a weekly gallery of Chris's choices from the year gone by. |
| The pictures speak for themselves, although I have had extra enjoyment over the years through goading Chris, Denis and Don with my view that photography is not an art. For what it's worth (and I have no pedigree beyond art A level in 1968) I argue that it is the camera that does the work. Yes, there is wizardry in the dark room or these days via Photoshop, but that too relies on clever technology. | The pictures speak for themselves, although I have had extra enjoyment over the years through goading Chris, Denis and Don with my view that photography is not an art. For what it's worth (and I have no pedigree beyond art A level in 1968) I argue that it is the camera that does the work. Yes, there is wizardry in the dark room or these days via Photoshop, but that too relies on clever technology. |
| I don't expect to win the debate, which is always good-natured; and I make the key concession that the person behind the lens certainly does matter, in two crucial ways: by being in the right place at the right time, which is only sometimes fortuitous; and by noticing things which others miss. | I don't expect to win the debate, which is always good-natured; and I make the key concession that the person behind the lens certainly does matter, in two crucial ways: by being in the right place at the right time, which is only sometimes fortuitous; and by noticing things which others miss. |
| Including me. I cannot count the times that Chris, Don or Denis has contributed the most interesting fact to a story, usually with a gentle nudge and a sotto voce: 'See that over there?' or 'Why not ask them what they think?' A picture is famously worth 1000 words (and I agree with that); the company of a photographer on a news story is worth many more. | Including me. I cannot count the times that Chris, Don or Denis has contributed the most interesting fact to a story, usually with a gentle nudge and a sotto voce: 'See that over there?' or 'Why not ask them what they think?' A picture is famously worth 1000 words (and I agree with that); the company of a photographer on a news story is worth many more. |
| Please follow this link to the first Northern Eye and check subsequent ones out from 7am on Thursdays to come. Meanwhile, I hope you like these pictures of the man in action. Needless to say, they are not by someone with is skill. They are by me. | Please follow this link to the first Northern Eye and check subsequent ones out from 7am on Thursdays to come. Meanwhile, I hope you like these pictures of the man in action. Needless to say, they are not by someone with is skill. They are by me. |
| Patience is a virtue. We spent ages on the rocky summit of Beeston Castle in Cheshire, waiting for the right light. Actually the weather is more or less never right for photographers, any more than it is for farmers. | Patience is a virtue. We spent ages on the rocky summit of Beeston Castle in Cheshire, waiting for the right light. Actually the weather is more or less never right for photographers, any more than it is for farmers. |
Modern journalism means filming as well as single frame photography. Here Chris gets up close and personal with an Orange Tip butterfly. And one final small service: for those who wonder how to pronounce Chris's surname, consider that the series is Thomond on Thursday. Not Tuesday. | Modern journalism means filming as well as single frame photography. Here Chris gets up close and personal with an Orange Tip butterfly. And one final small service: for those who wonder how to pronounce Chris's surname, consider that the series is Thomond on Thursday. Not Tuesday. |
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