It’s been six months since I’ve added anything new to any of my websites (I’ve been pretty busy doing new ranger stuff mostly) which means that I have literally hundreds of summer and autumn-type photos that, ordinarily, would have made it onto one or other of said sites, but are now unlikely to do so simply because it takes about fifteen minutes on average to prepare, upload, install and caption just a single image and sometimes I can feel my life just slipping away!

After all, it’s not as if my pictures are anything special. Plus, I only use a small, outdated, though suitably lightweight, second-hand Canon Powershot which I bought for ‘30 on ebay out of desperation a couple of years ago. Ideally, I would continue using the equally petite, but much more macro-efficient Ricoh ‘R’ range. Unfortunately however, after a succession of Ricoh disappointments, involving the R5, R6, R7 and R8, I found them to be nowhere near robust enough for outdoor-type, all-weather work.