Wow. When I opened this present from the missus at Christmas and noticed how cheaply made it was I honestly thought I would get nothing from it. Added to the budget build and its extremely light weight I soon discovered that the shutter stuck, had no cable release for its 7 second to 1 minute plus exposures (you have to just hold the button down, shaking hands effect included fee of charge, despite the tripod) and also that a little, seemingly pointless swinging-wheel-with-

This was one of the first outings after I had got this gorgeous piece of equipment and as a result all of the Castle ones were shot underexposed at Brougham Castle in the Lakes and took some careful scanning and developing to recover. I am pleased to say I've got better at that part of it and the final image of the tree at Ullswater shows that I think. It is clear in all the images just how detailed the 6 x 6 format is and as such it's no surprise that the format was so w

With a touch of the man-flu I really wasn't feeling it today but with the coincidence of the sun shining in an otherwise wet and miserable November aligning with my day off I decided to force myself to go into Manchester to take some images of the graffiti in the Castlefield canal basin, something I've been meaning to do for a while. The sharp and low autumn light was perfect and as I dragged myself around with the odd cough and splutter and a few bones aching it was doing wo