Some flowers that pushed up through the recent rainstorms.

Since it's Goth Weekend at Whitby, this seemed appropriate. Actually taken some time ago, but I recently re-imported all my old film images - so here it is.

Smoke trails from burning an incense stick.

After our light painting sesion last week (results to follow) I thought I'd give it a go with a statue of a hippo I got in South Africa.

We didn't get many great shots with the light ropes, but this one I like.

From a day at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent ( http://whf.org.uk ) - a full day photographing their endangered big cats.

Amur leopard - about a metre away, being taunted by the keeper with fresh meat right above my head...

A departure from the 'thing a week' this week - I've been playing with the new processing in Lightroom 4 to see what I can do with this fairly average scene from a while ago.

In the Lightroom Museum, Woking. The head is part of the Ingram Collection, and I liked the way the staircase and illuminated handrails draws your eye to it...

So I've decided to re-purpose it. I will now use it to post a 'Thing A Week' (with apologies to Jonathan Coulton for stealing the name) - just a single photo each Sunday. Obviously I intend to do more than take one picture every 7 days, but the idea is to once again set an absolute minimum that will keep me interested.

Some will be quick and nasty, some will be better - the idea is to practice, practice, practice. And incidentally to culture the habit of using the camera more often, rather than just pulling it out from time to time.

The first will be posted tomorrow, so watch this space! I'm using Posterous to spread it around the various websites (Facebook, Flickr and so on) so there might be some tweaking to do ;) Bear with me...