Kat likes to forage things when we go for our woodland walks.

I’ve had this Banksy rat decal on my Mac for just shy of half a decade, but last week the time finally came for me to peel him off.

Red Panda, taken at Blackpool Zoo in June 2015.

Kat and I had some time off in June last year, so we decided to take a trip up to Blackpool.

A sapling in Haywood Oaks, near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

A couple more of Burt, following on from the recent photo post.

A rather regal-looking Burt Swan, photographed after the Swan family portraits.

I had the pleasure of photographing the Swan family a couple of weeks ago. Specifically, their newest member: Heathcliffe. It’s been literally years since I’ve photographed a baby – or taken any traditional family portraits at all, for that matter – so I had a lot of fun photographing baby Heathcliffe. I also photographed the Swan beagle, Bert – look out for photographs of him in the next couple of days.

After not really picking up my guitar for a couple of years (which coincided with me becoming obsessed with photography, funnily enough), I’ve decided to start playing again. Kat said she’d like to learn, so I gave her a quick lesson the other night. And what do you teach someone who’s new to guitar? The opening bars to Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water, of course.