Just occasionally a bit of nostalgia takes grips of me and I eschew my eight year old digital Fuji GFX50S and instead reach for Big Bertha my obsolete and even older 20 year behemoth, the Pentax 67II, Pentax digital Spotmeter and the 55-100mm Pentax zoom lens, the whole loaded with a roll of Fuji Velvia 50 stored in the freezer a few years back. I still love the "real" sound of the shutter release and the mini clap of thunder it makes as you lock the mirror up to kill vibration and the results, well, they are unique to Velvia film. I can't deny that it is much more of a task to get the balancing act right with the ND graduated filters, but the results pleasingly reflect the effort made, at a significant monetary cost of course, E6 processing is still possible just difficult to find.

Perhaps more like a symphony than a mere chorus. I couldn't have wished for much more to come together, a devastatingly beautiful sunrise, wild flowers growing in profusion on the cliff top, soft light, a sun trying desperately hard to squeeze through a water colour perfect sky, the iconic Bowfiddle rock and hardly a breath of wind to disturb those flowers. Such things happen more in my dreams than in the reality of a Scottish summer. Lets hope this chorus repeats itself in future.