Heckler
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I did a story about sailing in Wales for PBO. I did it all from personal experience. SWMBO did the pix but they did use some stock pix of the Straights. I had some correspondance afterwards saying I hadnt included some of the smaller harbours! My reply? I hadnt visited because I have a fin keel and wouldnt enter a drying harbour and. couldnt write about somewhere I hadnt visited.
S
There was a nice compliment on another thread for Vyv. The comment was that YM and PBO were being dumbed down and that Vyv could not carry the magazines alone. The suggestion was, maybe unkindly to some other authors, that Vyv's work lifted the calibre of the magazine and the persons making the comment thought Vyv's work meritorious (of which I agree - his work is meritorious and he does lift the calibre of an issue).
Its not quite relevant but I thought I'd raise another comment
If I write up a 'cruising' or 'destination' story then all the research was actually being there, and the images were taken at the time. The background is from the various cruising guides or pilot books. Basically I can sit at my computer and write the story comparatively easily. I did not visit the location in order to research a story - I just happened to be there, maybe it was on the way to somewhere else.
I'm thinking of some of Vyv's stories, where he collects 'equipment' and travels to far flung places in the UK to test. He then might develop tests in his own workshop (and I'm guessing a bit of trial and error). He then needs to take images (and he needs to invest in anew camera now with better autofocus- see post #27), in both workshop and places he might visit to conduct testing (and workshops and labs etc are not the best places to take glamorous, attractive, images). Vyv then needs to write it up but has no access to 'location shots' should he need them but his own (though location shots of most cruising destinations can be found on the internet).
Vyv gets paid the same as the author of the destination story (sorry this is a guess).
Is it any wonder that stories of the calibre of Vyv's are few and far between.
If more articles of the calibre of Vyv's are desired - maybe the readers should be more vocal
Jonathan
I did a story about sailing in Wales for PBO. I did it all from personal experience. SWMBO did the pix but they did use some stock pix of the Straights. I had some correspondance afterwards saying I hadnt included some of the smaller harbours! My reply? I hadnt visited because I have a fin keel and wouldnt enter a drying harbour and. couldnt write about somewhere I hadnt visited.
S
