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AV News 180 - May 2010 'M ic h a e l' - K e ith L e e d h a m FRPS When we came home from New Zealand last year we found out that my oldest and closest friend had been given 6 months to a year to live. When I asked him when he had found out he said that he had seen the doctor on March 26, 2009. When I thought about it afterwards that was the day we had been on Piha Beach in New Zealand. So when I was on top of the world seeing my family and being on my favourite beach in N.Z. he was being told the worst thing you can hear. When I was taking the pictures on Piha beach I had in mind the patterns the waves were making as they broke on the beach and hoped to make a sequence about them. One evening I found myself typing words into the computer and after an hour or so found what could be called a poem. I printed it out and showed Marilyn my wife. She said that for something I had written it was brilliant. I recorded myself reading the poem and the sequence came into being. Although I had finished the sequence before Michael died, I could not show it to him. I will be showing it to his wife Linda at the begining of April. Wish me luck. 'O ra n g es a n d L em o n s ' - D a v e W ilc o x An explanation and tour of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons' along with Benjamin Till's composition of the music made up from the recordings of the bells of London. You can view the sequence on 'YouTube' http://www.youtube.com/user/audiovi sualphoto#p/a/u/1/AiurJW1fK_M 'O n e M a n 's V is io n ' D ic k W illia m s FRPS A concise definition of what The Eden Project in Cornwall is and how it came about from the ideas of a specialist gardener who wanted man and our environment to work. Page 45