Wilfred Thesiger. He was born in Ethiopia in 1910 and spent his early boyhood there, (his father was the British minister in charge of the Legation in Addis Ababa). Growing up in this environment (where as he recalled, watching the triumphant warriors ride back into the capital with the heads of the defeated enemies impaled on their spears), predisposed him to spend much of his life travelling in the remaining remote places on Earth. His books like "Arabian Sands" and "the Marsh Arabs" are absolute classics. In 1987 a book of his photographs "Visions of a Nomad" was published. In the introduction he explained how he didn't start taking photos seriously until he bought a Leica 11 in 1934 and he used this camera until 1959. Though he later bought a 35 and 90 Elmarit lenses, for the most part he mainly used just the standard lens. The camera was allways kept in a goatskin bag, he only ever shot black and white and used Ilford film. Looking at his photos again, many taken decades ago (and the films often left undeveloped for months and a year or more as he explained), just makes one realise that all those debates that rage on forums like this about which lens or camera is better than that and so on are really only academic. Of course Thesiger would be the last person to call himself a photographer but for me, with one camera and one lens, as a chronicler of a way of life which was about to disappear for ever, his photos are absolutely priceless.