The people who do the Photoplus show deserve a medal for the excellent talks and panels they put on. Two of the jewels in their crown were were put on on Saturday morning, when people had exausted the rival draw of the exhibits and the talks on the floor of the show. Andy Katz's amusing stroll through his best ravel work as he gave ten tips for travel photographers - ask, stick around, and most important of all, chase the early morning and evening light - featured some of the finest travel pictures where both portraits and landscapes deserved to be hung on the wall. Beautifully composed and illuminated houses and vineyards and fields and mountains alternated with portraits where evidently the subjects were securely in their own world yet alert to the attentive and appreciative personality of the photographer which created its own confidence, partly through the use of small point and shoot cameras like the RX-1 and the RX-100 which obtrude very little into the communication between Katz and the subject which is clearly total.

The final lesson we attended was where Lindsay Adler brilliantly analyzed the challenge of posing subjects for portraits both face and full length and sometimes with their significant other. She showed how to put everyone in the best light by arranging the body, limbs, shoulders and head to compose visually interesting structures where triangles and proportions were used and adapted so that even rather overweight subjects could be transformed from ugly rumpled puddings into curvaceous alluring images. She and Katz both exemplified the youthful enthusiasm and generosity of photographers who love their work and having established themselves securely as leading practitioners are more than willing to share their expertise and advice with the up-and-coming new generation, totally willing to answer questions as they went along and sticking around for some times after they had completed their lecture demos to talk with admirers and those who wanted to offer them congratulations or a thoughtful response or arrange some connection in the future.

Lindsay doesn't take her camera with her anymore whiole travelking with her photographer boyfriend Jeff because she learned that it separated her from the real experience. He does take his. For art she likes to take her own nudes, and they are almost always female because even when scrunched together the eye can follow curves.

How much more interesting Photoplus lectures are than the exhibits on the floor, yet the technology has its own allure. What a pity they are concurrent.