A few months ago I visited my Grandad, and was looking though his many family photo albums. He has been interested in photography for ages, and is pretty good at it too!

I wanted a copy of many of the older photos, and so set about scanning the hundreds of photos with his scanner. It didn’t take as long as I expected because his scanner is pretty amazing, and now many of our family photos are digitized here on this site.

Sorry to disappoint anyone, but they are all password protected! If you want to access them, you will have to sign up on the photo section of this site and ask me nicely to give you the relevant permissions. Below is a quick taster of what is in there.

My trusty old Konica Minolta Dimage G400 finally bit the dust today. It has taken thousands of photos over the last 3½ years, and now it decides that all the photos I take will have lines across them.

The only way to get rid of the stripes is to zoom in all the way using optical zoom, but still the auto exposure does not work well. Having looked around some forums etc, this seems to be a fairly common problem with this model.

When I bought it in May 2004 it was the fastest camera on the market for start-up to taking a picture. 0.7 seconds was the quoted speed, and this was achievable if you set it on the lowest possible resolution, and turned off the autofocus. Under normal use, it was pretty fast, and certainly much faster than most digital cameras. Incidentally, this is one of my gripes with camera phones – they take ages from you deciding to take a picture to actually capturing the moment.

Well, now it is time for a new camera, but there are too many to chose from! If you have any suggestions please tell me!

This year for a family holiday we stayed in a caravan on a friends farm in the Yorkshire Dales. I had come straight from a mission trip in South Africa, to WEC camps and then to Yorkshire, without visiting home to pick anything up. I was reliant on washing a few things.

It was a brilliant time to relax, as well as get into the great outdoors and go for walks around the dales. It didn’t rain too much, but it certainly was windy. There were some awesome sunsets, and I got some good photos of Ingleton falls.

I managed to crawl behind one of the waterfalls, and took a picture. If you look closely in the photo below you might be able to see me…