^{I received my first camera when I was about eight – a Christmas present from my parents. Dad had an old Kodak box brownie camera, so I guess I must have expressed interest in that.}

^{I’ve been a prolific amateur photographer since – and the photo below of a nun in quiet contemplation is one of my all time favourites. A matter of right time, right place – luck.}

^{I took the photo – on slide film – back in the early 1970’s while walking on top of the walls surrounding the ancient city of Dubrovnik on the Dalmatian coast in Southern Croatia.}

^{The photo of the nun is interesting as the then Yugoslavia was a communist State. Is she praying, reading, or simply looking up a recipe for lunch? The washing line includes clothes that aren’t nun like. So perhaps it was a women’s Pensione, run by nuns? Or perhaps she was visiting?}