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The final blast of winter....... costing NYC a million dollars an inch to pick it all up....... snow in mega proportion...... and yet all though it causes more drama than usual....... the city battles through.

Cheers Jez XX

PS......... When I was shooting that Gordon Brown job at The House of Representatives in DC yesterday I met Peter Mac...... for the first time in 10 years..... Yeah its amazing....... ten years. He is someone I used to see around a lot in another era. He was good friends with my mate Jon Jones cos they worked together at the Independent then he worked at the Telegraph........ I worked on the Independent mag a little and with the Telegraph and The observer a lot in those days.....Peter Macdiarmid was just one of those people on the scene...... I always liked him without really knowing him that well........ but most of that scene has gone now...... where photographers would see each other all over the place cos now so relatively little is commissioned...... certainly that thing where papers had photographers everywhere all the time is over. I think Peter Mac even did the odd thing for the agency I am represented by Insight ........ for rush jobs...... cos he was one of the very first to be into shooting digital..... when the rest of us were still clinging to our film cameras. Peter Mac has been working at Reuters and now with Getty since I've been in the US........ funnily enough he said of me that he hadn't recognized my face but my voice....... and weirdly I found he didn't look that familiar himself..... but his voice sounded familiar........oh god all us press photographer types are aging so badly we don't even recognize each other...... hehehehehe....... its the no sleep thing..... old Drewble who periodically likes to tell me off from Scandinavia for never going to bed ..... is right....... maybe I need to change the name of the blog to TimeOfThePharaohsBlog.com :-O :-) :-)) XXX