My first night under my MLD Trailstar

I had been looking forward to this weekend for a while because besides visiting family in North Wales I was intending to wild camp with my new Trailstar shelter. The primary purpose of this wild camp was to test my MLD Trailstar. However, I also had with me a new...

TGO Challenge 2012 Preparation – Part 1

This is the first in a series of posts about my preparation for the TGO Challenge 2012. It will be my first Challenge and I will talk about my thoughts and feelings, gear, my route and anything else which I feel might be interesting to discuss with regards my planning...

Taking a fresh look at your old photographs

Why would you want to look back over your old images with a view to processing, or re-processing, some of them? Surely one would have processed an image at the time if it was any good, and a processed image is finished and should not be touched again? Earlier this...

Pitching my MLD Trailstar for the first time

Today I pitched my new Trailstar shelter properly for the first time. I say properly because I tried to pitch it in my garden but it would not fit, such is the large size of this shelter and the small size of my Victorian terraced garden! I pitched it with a centre...

Plunge Studios, a new photographic studio in Milton Keynes

A colleague of mine has recently taken the rather bold step of giving up full-time employment and has set up a photographic studio in Milton Keynes. The business is called Plunge Studios and although they specialise in automotive photography they will take on other...

Old bath

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Blurb gets ebooks – CEO open letter

I just had this land in my inbox: An Open Letter from Blurb’s CEO Hello Customers, Partners, and Friends, This is only the second time I have written one of these open letters, so I guess it takes something special to get me to put pen to paper, or in this case,...