My offer to take people's portraits is really paying off these days and I had the great pleasure of taking the picture of this wonderfully dressed group of Italian friends who were having a really special time at Lyme Park on a hen event. It's funny but I was a bit annoyed to have missed out on a picture of an older couple dressed in similar attire that were being swamped by others taking their picture only to walk around the corner and see this group. They jumped at the cha

The next stop in my quest to capture all things old and industrial took me to the brilliant Lancashire Mining Museum in Astley, where I was lucky enough to get some images of the old traction engines and a couple of unusual portraits. Very happy indeed with the results.

I'm still learning in my reintroduction back into film so I wanted to see if the combination of the Zeiss Super Ikonta's f2.8, HP5 at 400 box speed and also my stand development could give me more shutter speed room and stops in the same roll without a tripod and although it was challenging it was very encouraging with a few frames shot a couple of stops under (ie, if 1/15 was metered I shot at 1/60) and still coming out fine. Very pleased indeed!