Happy New Year, Val. We're back from our post-Christmas jaunt! This photo illustrates exactly what I have meant when I've written before of that distinctive art form that is a Val Sharp photograph. If I'd seen this shot, unnamed, amongst hundreds of others, I'd have known who crafted it. Great. Characterful. Expressive. Someone could have a go at writing poetry about this one. This is a lovely, lovely image. Its movement speaks of leaving and of going, of cheer and of hope ... and all in that mellow 'blur' of the early hours of the 1st January. And housed in an altogether splendid fireworks gallery, too. May 2006 present you with a thousand peaceful, hopeful, happy images to frame and share ... :)