Greetings to you on another gorgeous sunny Sunday! 

Today, after a quick trip into town to kit Miss 9.6 out with some new sandals for my cousin’s wedding next weekend (miracle of miracles, praise be and hallelujah she actually liked the first pair she tried on AND the store had them in her size, two things that never happen at the same time) I slotted in a brisk and extremely sweaty 4km dogwalk and a glorious swim to cool off from the dogwalk (me only; Pippa and Max are banned from the pool as they insist on doing bombs off the ladder) and now I am in the middle of my first assignment for my photography course.

This assignment is all about the theory and I’ve got ten scenarios in which to choose “lenses, attachments and filters” for. So far so good, but I’m a little bit stumped on what to use for “high power shots of business-suited women in a slick city environment with a lot of action round them” and went and shot this photo of unslick country with no high powered women in business suits in it at all and used Elements’ nifty Photomerge Panoroma tool to stitch it all together instead, because the practical is *so* much more fun than the theory.

However, this diversion is going to get me diddly squat on my assignment, so back to swotting up on the zoom, the telephoto, the macro, the tilt, the prime and the wide angle I go…