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Two lotus blooms

ABOUT ME I was born on farm in North Yorkshire and have always loved the outdoor life and, from the age of ten, photography. My Grandmother gave me my first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, I can still remember the smell of it as we sat on a park bench in London Zoo and loaded the film, carefully winding the knob until number one showed in the counter window. A Zookeeper was feeding an elephant. it stood on its concrete plinth with its trunk up in air, mouth open, whilst the keeper lobbed bananas at it. I leant against the railings, the sun over my left shoulder as my Grandmother told me. As I concentrated on the photo, my bare knee slipped through the rails and got stuck. As much as I pulled, the knee wouldn't budge. My Grandmother came...