Wednesday, 26 March 2025

I bought a VERY cheap Lubitel 166B medium format 120 film camera............I don't know why!!!

There is a point in every man’s journey, particularly as one approaches the sexagenarian threshold, where the sheer accumulation of years begins to assert a non-negotiable gravitational pull. For some, this manifests as a slowing of pace; a measured, perhaps, even prudent, withdrawal from the extremes of life. For myself? It's the persistent, almost compulsive, pursuit of the sublime austerity of the Scottish wilderness. I continue to haul myself into the landscape - across all four seasons I might add, under the gamut of the Koppen climate classification, be it driving hundreds of miles in a single diurnal cycle or using my vehicle as a makeshift bivouac - all while my musculature and skeletal frame registering increasingly emphatic dissent.

​Stepping Out into the Sunshine: Three Weeks Off Social Media and Feeling Fantastic!!!

​Well, it’s been three weeks now since I decided to step away from social media, and honestly, the change has been nothing short of transfor...