Camping

It's genuinely a bit frightening to realise that this photo was taken 17 years ago, that's nearly half a lifetime! Back then camping was my norm - cheap, easy, portable, no need to plan ahead. I still have a romantic fascination with the whole notion of sleeping under canvas (or nylon or whatever it is these days), but haven't had much chance to indulge since being shown the yellow card when I tried to take a tent with me on my honeymoon...

Anyway, it's slightly cheating to post a photo which obviously was not taken by me, but I need to mark an important moment in my life: the moment that my daughter is old enough to go on a camping trip with me. We're off tomorrow, and I'm as excited as a six year old on Christmas Eve! It may not be trekking to the Everest Base Camp, but it's a start. Here's to a lifetime of father-daughter adventures together. (She calls them inventures.)

Details: Minolta X-500, 50mm lens, exposure not recorded. Agrigento, Sicily, August 1989. Placemark.