The Picture Thief

Mr Tranquillo, my partner in life, my travel agent, gentleman and scholar, has taken up blogging.  Now I have to guard my photos like a hawk. I used to dip into his pictures willy nillly, with a ‘what’s yours is mine’ approach, like a free digital bank. Now I must ask politely. In his last blog, he stole some of my photos from Chile to complete a story about graffiti. In doing so, he unearthed an old file of mine and took me back to Valparaiso.

Valparaiso, Chile, 2008
Valparaiso, Chile, 2008.

He had worked on this post for some time and had wandered the streets of Brunswick to get some urban grunge into the mix. We now both loiter with intent and camera. He has always been my patient editor, questioning some of my more rash approaches: now I am his, encouraging him to loosen up.

Valparaiso, Chile, 2008
Valparaiso, Chile, 2008

Although the subjects of our posts sometimes cross paths, our writing styles are distinct. Both our professional lives were based on writing, but for distinctly different purposes. We both devour books, but rarely do we read the same things. During our last trip to Thailand, my holiday reading took me to the obsessive world of Elena Ferrante, and after four volumes of her Neapolitan series, I am pleased to have escaped. While stuck in Ferrante’s world, Mr T found a hard backed tome, left behind on the book shelf in our guest house in Nong Khai, Thailand. Entitled, ‘The Malaria Project’ by Karen M Masterson, it exposed

America’s secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis.

Nice holiday reading indeed!  He tends to choose more non fiction than I do. And although we spend most of our time together and can read each other’s thoughts, we are quite different, we really are.

Take a look at Mr Tanquillo’s blog- he writes beautifully.

https://nomadicpaths.wordpress.com

30 thoughts on “The Picture Thief”

  1. Oh, how lovely. My Peter dabbles too… mostly on his facebook page. xx PS WP has locked me out for some weird reason, hence Peter’s email.

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  4. Love the urban grunge photos! I am home now, with some time to read blogs again, hopefully. Our trip was crazy busy, but our home life is pretty calm so I guess it balances out. Look forward to reading Mr. T’s blog! xx

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  8. Just for the record I had not trouble following but like you other blogging platforms, Blogger and Blogspot make it very difficult to both comment and respond to comments. Not sure if it’s them or me. Look forward to reading Mr T’s posts…

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  10. I wandered over to Mr Tranquillo’s blog… street art 🙂 a subject you know I’m fond of. I back up both the G.O.’s photos and mine to OneDrive and anything that’s on there is fair game for inclusion on my blog 🙂 The G.O. writes an occasional poem but isn’t likely to turn his hand to a blog, so I’m good there. As with many things out various interests often meet in the middle so we share a middle ground of reading material, viewing, musical tastes etc.

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  11. Nothing like a little healthy competition! I’ve found since Mr ATMT hasn’t been that interested in taking photos my drive to have better ones has diminished somewhat. We too are very different but exactly the same in some ways. Very different reading tastes, I tend to go more non fiction (apart from when on holidays) he likes action adventure and historical. Some nice posts on Mr T’s blog, I think I’m safe, Mr ATMT can barely use his mobile let alone start a blog!

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