well as some of you know i have had to buy a new camera (i know what a shame)...ive bought a canon 5d and i have to say it really does feel like a quality bit of kit...strangely enough the thing that impresses me most is the beautifully smooth shutter. of course it also means a step up in lenses and ive bought a canon 16-24mm l series lens to go with it and again the quality is exceptional.

Ive also had to buy a new laptop and with it cs3 which has made me mad ive not had both before, The laptop is enabling me to edit images much quicker than my previous machine and cs3's RAW processing is a marked step up from cs2.

So all this is good but also depressing...i feel like i want to go back and re-edit everything!!! where does it all end!!! ....of course it doesnt is the answer....

Now as many of you know its very easy to get sucked into the constant upgrade thing and of course quality items produce quality results but just to keep our feet on the ground im gonna feature a young lady who has just started to watch me whose images are taken with a mobile phone.

I hope by doing this it'll serve as a reminder to us all that the kit does not make a photographer and that we should count ourselves lucky we are able to buy such stuff...

As said Justyna [link] takes her images in her gallery on a mobile phone!!!.... but nonetheless they show her talent to spot great composition good colours and moods....so all you photography snobs (me included) or individuals that are obsessed with what camera took what shot ....have a look...


And lastly its my birthday at the weekend and im off to Ljubljana in Slovenia so if anyone has been before and has any good advice i'd be most grateful...

Best wishes to you all...