No doubt it will soothe you Smeggypants....

I've just be leafing through "People in Vogue" and there's a book that we can savour. The portraits throw out of the window all those camera club clichés and we have some people pictures with real passion in them. We also have blown out highlights, deep black shadows, wild and wacky composition...analysing why none of those matter in this context is I think quite valuable.

But they are not shot randomly and there is inspiration and skill, something we could aspire to.

Have you formatted the cards in the camera you intend to use them in? That in itself should prevent most problems.

Failing that, try formatting in another camera and then format in the K-3.

Lovely quality.

Whitby Goth Weekends are full of interesting people, but every now and then one appears with a real wow factor.

We're just back from Whitby, so here we are:


From left to right: John Riley, Bethany Ryder, Sue Riley, Diane Scollon, Mark Scollon.

A Thousand Words might not be right, as a picture is worth 1000 words. One picture. I suppose if you are showing 25 pictures you could say 25,000 words?

What I do know is that the tiniest area can be made use of. I labelled an image "Astley Marshes", but in reality what I showed in the image was it, the lot, there was no more...being surrounded by roads. It gets more difficult if an area is small, but things can be found and it's a good exercise in observation.

Very often "less is more" can be seen to be true and many landscape images try to get far too much in.

You buy, enjoy and forget the current price. Some people torture themselves with what ifs, but we just move on. Whatever we've paid it was fine at the time and we've been using the value ever since. I paid £263 for mine, and I don't care one jot! I've had very good value from my MX-1 ever since I bought it.

Totally agree with that last statement - just do it!