Editorial: Collaborating, Photo trips & Pool photography

Staff · Issue 108, May/Jun 2019 · pp. 4

Editorial Collaborating Louis Otis’ and Fernando Lessa’s excellent illustrated story about the revival of salmon in Vancouver is very positive but it is also good example of what can happen when two talents collaborate. Fernando has been keeping me updated with his images recording the salmon revival in Vancouver but his pdf presentations were always understandably thin on words because English is not his natural written language. As a result I was rarely able to include his images but now he has collaborated with Louis we have the classic situation of one plus one equals three. Louis is an emerging talent who actually pitched me the idea for the article. It was well presented, reasoned and not overblown and he could see that any exposure to his writing skills must be worth it on his CV. The result is plain to see and the moral of the story must be that you may be a great underwater phot…