Taking stock. Photos, that is.

Looking through photos can be a laborious process for me. It isn't that I don't enjoy doing it, you understand. Actually I love it very much, because it brings out old photos that I remember and love for the situation they remind me of and the feelings that go with them. Looking through them can evoke the strangest things, such as my friend from UMIST who had magic powers to levitate a football... (Hi Andy)

Or David doing a Dr Zoidberg impression in a coach, in the middle of leaving our Iaido seminar in the mountains of Ozu (Island of Shikoku, great nation of Japan)...

No. It's the fact that there are about 37000 photos on my PC now (and yes, they are backed up). So going through them is incredibly amusing, but takes a while.

But I've decided that I need to start going through them, organising them and more importantly pick out my favourites to put together into a portfolio. Now I'm not trying to do this to make myself into a photographer, or to make money out of it, but for my own edification and to prove that within those 37000 there are many really stunning shots. You know, at least 5. I may even be stupid enough to look at a website with an improbable name, so stay tuned.

But in the meantime here's some I like from my dig today.

Oh, and here's another daft one. Hi Gaz.