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But they're shells, ok. More from my wild Saturday night in with the scanner, 2 bottles of wine and some black fabric. Does life get any better than this? The effect from direct scanning is comfortingly old-fashioned and lends the image quite a painterly feel. My thought of the week is this: How far has digital equipment really enabled us to travel?

aliens

Angry alien

Unhappy alien

Shy alien

My boys found a sunglass case full of alien figures when we were camping last weekend. I'd been reading Exploring Colour Photography by Robert Hirsch. Tonight, I decided to bring the two together using a flat-bed scanner and a black cloth tent suspended across two wine bottles.

City at night

I was down in London for the FA Cup Final and we took a taxi back to my friend's house through London. It's probably one of those things that visitors experience rather than Londoners, but driving slowly in a well-built taxi cab across one of the bridges has a very cinematic feel about it. I was looking out of the window taking the odd snap.

Shadow

I've been working on the subject of shadows, which is developing into a more tightly woven set of pictures around the idea of City of Shadows.

Walk Away

I first saw this last November when I was on a day out photographing in Edinburgh. I went back recently because I wanted a version on negative for some work I'm doing with liquid light emulsion. The negative version was so much better than the digital image - full of texture and detail. The amazing thing was it was taken with a point and shoot that I got off Ebay for 5 quid. A mere 755 pounds less than the digital slr.

Summer's first try in Scotland

Here are some pictures taken at Tentsmuir, in the lovely East Neuk of Fife. The weather forecast had been for cloud but we got a day of sunshine. It was warm and the heat caused steam to rise from the shallow water pools that stretch along this bit of coast. It was floating across the coast and looked very eerie. I dared a swim in the North Sea and a couple of grey seals came swimming by to look at us all.

A new second hand Holga

A couple of weeks ago I picked up my holga from the royal mail depot. It's one of the early incarnations with absolutely no frills or flash which is just how I like them. With some Neopan 400 at the ready I unpacked it, loaded the film and headed straight to the beach to walk the dog. Here was the first thing I saw complete with exposure suggestion! The Holga only came with a 6 x 4.5cm mask so I've been busy with a stanley knife and a hot flame...