Now available FREE.

Back in 2005 I published a book of one hundred black and white street snaps named Street Smarts, using Lulu.com. It sold well which gratified my ego and made my charities happy, as they got the proceeds. The pictures were taken during my last six years of life in London and my first six years of what became a 35 year love affair with my first Leica, an M3. They were taken in London and Paris during the period 1971-77, right until I left permanently for America.

You can still get the book from Lulu in a printed paperback (and I will continue to earn nothing!) but I have also now added a downloadable PDF version which you can get by clicking the picture below and saving the 45 second/14gB download, or by going to ‘links’ at the top right of this site. Gratis, free and for nothing. And it’s been digitally remastered, as the marketing spin for old stuff would have it.

You may contrast my street snapper style from 40 years ago with today’s by also downloading the identically priced Street Snaps 2009-2010 and, in addition to the exclusive use of color where monochrome once ruled, I hope you will also find more joy and humor in the later work, and a more spontaneous approach. Over a forty year period one changes ….

Click picture to download.

My new FREE book.

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Online publishing being the thing of the future, I have created a new book in PDF format which you can download free by clicking the picture below.

All but the first were taken on the Panasonic G1 with its kit lens; the exception was made on the Canon 5D. All snaps were taken during the past year in San Francisco.

You can view these in a browser of your choice on your desktop or laptop or, better still, save (File->Save as…) the downloaded PDF file and drop it on iTunes to sync with your iPad or, even better, if you use GoodReader ($0.99) on your iPad get the free GoodReaderUSB utility, plug your iPad in and drag and drop the PDF onto your iPad where you can then view it in GoodReader. (To mitigate image theft I have disabled right-clicking on this site).

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This PDF was created using the slideshow PDF export capability of Lightroom 2/3. The PDF file was then opened in Preview and the cover and colophon pages, created in iWork Pages and saved as single page PDFs, were dropped in. The whole thing was then saved again as a PDF and uploaded to my server. Lightroom 3 does allow you to add Intro and Ending pages but I didn’t notice that until it was too late!

The file is 14mB and should download fast – 45 seconds here. It is optimized for viewing on the iPad. You can also download the book by clicking on ‘my books’ in the right hand column, under the ‘links’ tab.

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Enjoy!

Update July 21, 2010: Now expanded from 44 to 100 photographs.