A while back on this blog I wrote about my meeting with Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the intrepid explorer, adventurer, photographer, author and military man.

At that time I could not put my hands on the negatives of the portraits of Sir Wilfred Thesiger that I’d shot in his Sloane Square apartment. But now, a few months down the line, my ever getting better, ever shinier, ever more beautiful archive is looking trimmer, more immediate, more organised, more colourful, in panavision. It’s all being constantly stream lined, annotated, amalgamated, scanned, keyworded, sorted, cherished, loved, and now I can put my hands on what I need when I need it all from within Lightroom. Except for the trillion unscanned negatives of course.

So to follow up on my initial posting about Sir Wilfred Thesiger, here is the portrait I shot of him in his living room, on my Leica, on Tri-X or HP5. I shot a mere three frames of him. I was very happy to discover this image was used as the author portrait on Thesiger’s book ‘The Danakil Diaries‘.