There are some things for which digital cameras are just useless. And of course at the back of every photographer’s mind at this time of the evening is Ansel Adams’s unforgettable picture of Hernandez, New Mexico.

Sunset over East Anglia, this afternoon.

… and King’s College choir were being smartened up for the photoshoot — no doubt for their next album cover. Snapped yesterday afternoon at the back gate.

They involve flying through this. It was the bumpiest flight I’ve been on in a while. All the small children on the plane wailed in unison every time the aircraft heaved!

There was a wonderful storm in Donegal on Tuesday afternoon. We went out to Muckross Head to watch it in all its awesome glory. One of the kids just sat staring at the sea as it seethed and crashed on the cliffs below. Unforgettable.

Foreign readers may be interested to know that mince pies are a British delicacy traditionally consumed at Christmas, which falls on December 25. Photographed recently in a Cambridge supermarket.

The sky over my house last evening.

Er, but not as Tim Berners-Lee intended it. Photographed yesterday in a friend’s garden.