Jonathon Delacour

AKMA wrote a post, In Honour of Delacour the other day. Jonathon was one of my first, and I feel closest, online friends from back in the Golden Age of blogging. I checked my emails, and the last time I heard from Jonathon was the day before my birthday in 2011. I was surprised to read that he'd be 78 now, ten years older than I. It seems hard to fathom. I think of Jonathon often. Photography was one of his passions, and every time I straighten a horizon in one of my images, I feel as though I'm disappointing him. He offered me much good advice, but one piece was "never straighten your photos." (I should search the emails to see if I can find the exact quote.) For a while, I tried to follow that advice, because I almost never shot a landscape with a level horizon. It usually tilted to the right. Jonathon felt that it was part of my photographic "vision." I just felt it was my lack of care. And I kept seeing advice to do the opposite, and everyone else's horizons seemed so level.…