Hi Muriel, Many thanks for your account of how Alfred Burton took such wonderful photographs in spite of the difficulties he faced. I for one found it very interesting and as you say we have certainly come a long way from those times to now when we can just "point & shoot"! I had never heard about Alfred so I Googled him, http://www.photoforum-nz.org/gallery/projects/burton/essay.html here's one of the articles I found, apparently he & his brother Walter went to NZ from Leicester so you weren't too far off! There were 4 brothers, 2 stayed in the UK they were all trained in the trades of printing, engraving, stationery, book selling, and newspaper publishing in their father, John Burton's company. The site has some lovely landscapes that they took, the Burton Bros must have been the Francis Firths of NZ! I don't post too often but I do enjoy reading all of the letters especially your contributions Muriel! Please keep them coming! Kind regards Barbara A Coventry kid in West Aus ----- Original Message ----- From: "pollyp" <[email protected]> To: "ENG-BANBURY-AREA" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:20 AM Subject: [BAN] Photography---the hard way! > Dear Lister Friends, > This week I was fortunate to obtain the latest issue of " New Zealand > Memories". > from our town library This is a real treat, with its interesting and > informative regional > historical articles and excellent reproduction of old photographs. > An article caught my eye. It was "Pioneer Photograher" by Gordon > Campbell, > and was about the famous NZ photographer, Alfred Burton. > I want to tell you about him. What has this to do with Banburyshire? > Nothing in > particular, but I feel that we should not be too parochial, as it > enlightens us about the > conditions pertaining to those times---and plenty of Banburyshire people > emigrated > there from the mid 1800s on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ snip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~