You can prepare for most things in life, but not for loss or memory failure.
Sometimes we can remember that we have lost something but know that we have forgotten what it was, and you are left with a vagueness and fear for not only the loss but for the forgetting too.

Everything changes.
Nothing changes.

When I'm looking in my mirror at home, I don't think I'm so bad.

Whichever way you look and whoever's doing the looking, you couldn't call me ugly.
Not handsome, maybe, but not ugly.
My face is sort of square and what an author might call open, and it's a good colour.
The scar over my left eye where I argued with the railing doesn't help, though I wonder sometimes if it doesn't make me look a bit tougher. I don't know.
And there's always my hair. No two ways about that, I've got a head of hair that any man would be proud of, thick and dark with a natural wave that needs only a touch of the fingers after it's combed and glossy without a lot of cream. No doubt about my hair. And I have it cut every fortnight and never miss. Or only now and again.
I could do with a couple more inches on my height. I've always had a yen for just two more inches.

And then my clothes. Now there's no denying I know how to dress. I don't pay the earth for my suits but I know where they give you the right cut and I always keep my pants pressed and my shoes clean.

So there I am, Victor Arthur Brown.
Take me or leave me, I'm all I've got.


A Kind of Loving.
Stan Barstow.

A mention in the NY Times.

Well, thanks again to the exceedingly nice Thomas Hawk for putting in a kind word, I, along with a few others, get a mention in the NY Times magazine....and if I could have chosen a paper, this would have been it :)

see here.....http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ex=1366862400&oref=slogin


and Thomas Hawk is at...http://thomashawk.com/

Woah! Good news :)

I was one of ten winners in a competition hosted by Pixish.com (Pixish is a place where people who want images and people who make images can easily find each other and collaborate on creative projects together).

It was made all the better for assuming that I hadn't won and had forgotten all about it :)

Check out the winners here:

http://pixish.com/news/11

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: The Photography of Vicky Slater

Mr Thomas Hawk took the time to go through my entire flickr stream www.flickr.com/people/janeway and very kindly wrote a piece on his blog, for which I feel very flattered and grateful.
Thanks Thomas :)

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: The Photography of Vicky Slater

There's a vulnerability about the back of heads that draws me closer.