I work from home anyway so not much changed, and should have retired years ago. That isn’t going to happen for a while but have decided to just work mornings, I tried over the last week and it’s working out so far. I get to spend the afternoon on a walk or in the garden without feeling I should be on the computer so a much better balance whilst still earning a crust. And I don’t feel bad about a drink of pop in the middle of the afternoon!

I too have a couple of Cactus triggers I bought off eBay, they can be used with virtually any camera make and flash, except I believe for Sony for which there is a special version. They can also be used as a remote trigger but not at the same time as the flash. As the same unit is used for either transmit or receive the one on the camera can have another flash mounted on top.

I believe they can also be used with studio flashes, Cactus did have one in development with a built-in receiver but it was abandoned.

A word of warning about Pentax flashguns, only very lightly apply the tightening lever on a cold shoe such as on the plastic foot or a tripod adapter. It can be permanently damaged and fail to make contact with a hot shoe as a result of fully tightening it - see p11 of the manual.

Excellent images Geoff, love the light and drama. I think the long exposure ones are less interesting compared with the others but then you were there to see the options and I wasn’t! It looks like you were part of a small group, was that an organised tour you booked or just a group of friends?

I was also intrigued by the DA* 60-250 lens on the K1, the results look fantastic but was there any vignetting or unsharp edges or did you just go crop mode? I am wondering how it would compare with the new FA 70-210.

If ever a dog looked reluctant to pose then this is it!

A studio for yourself perhaps?

Oh I used to have one of those many many years ago!

What’s a Watameter?

I knew I had this somewhere!

Never mind it will do just as well as The Times for loo paper!

I saw a report yesterday that the Japanese are aiming to move production in many fields back from China to Japan. It won’t happen overnight but an interesting development.