First of all please accept your editors humble apologies for the tardiness of the current issue. All the plans were put in place to ensure a week in the wilderness would generate content rather than delay it, but like the best military leaders often say “no plan survives direct contact with the enemy”. In this case the enemy was incessant rain, flat leisure batteries and an underestimation of how tired a photographer gets after a day out taking photographs.
Backing up a little bit to give you some context, last year myself and Dav Thomas planned a campervan adventure to Scotland, hopefully covering the stretch of road from Fort William to Mallaig – a choice made when driving past it all whilst returning from our adventure to the Isle of Eigg in 2009.
Since then the magazine has started and so our initial adventure with just photography in mind and two campervans became a shortened adventure with one campervan (Dav’s had only just had a replacement gearbox fitted and wasn’t properly tested) and a bunch of audio/visual gear. The plan being to do an interview and take some video content of us out and about. I won’t labout the point but in the end we only had three and a half useful days of photography and two of them had heavy rain and by the time the last day came we ended up just wanting to get some results – very slack of your editor (me) but I will make up for it with content over the coming weeks.
I’ll try hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again though ..
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