This reminds me of the old story of when a Brit, on being asked why Brits
used such long words' he replied. 'You mean like car for automobile, lift
for elevator and flat for apartment'. And can I draw attention to the
recent fashion for 'citation' rather than 'quote' or 'source'. When I used
to go to NATO meetings it was intereresting to watch the USN wincing at the
way they saw the US Army, as the Navy saw it. abusing the language,
But 'returning to our muttons' as the French would say, the prices charged
by The Bellows Company in Birmingham, West Midlands, already mentioned in
this thread, are so reasonable that if I had anything other than a pinhole
in the bellows of my camera, I would rather have a new set of bellows than
risk a DIY repair.
Apart from that, I learned this year, at Focus, at the National Exhibition
Centre in Birmingham, that the person who is largely instrumental in making
the bellows, learned her chemistry in the same lab where I ran my year long
alternative photography course. That was when the place was still the
Twickenham County School for girls rather than an adult college. And now,
of course, I run the alternative workshops at 'Hands-On Pictures' on
Richmond Hill.
Incidentally is Larry Bullis the same Larry Bullis whose picture of Scotty
Sapiro appears in Kent Wade's book on' Alternative Photographic Processes'
that I have just bought from Andrew Cahan.