He's an essayist, novelist, Doctor of Philosophy, speaker of French, German as well, English after a fashion, former weight-lifter and football player, lies-on-his-back-if-need-be kind o' fella; in other words and to all effects a physical and intellectual Renaissance Man: photographer par excellence. These renditions of his images, and the others scattered hither and yon on SFBlues.net, don't at all do justice to the emotionally powerful pictures of Scott Palmer.