Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal.

The film centres around Poitras and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. It shows the incredible bravery of, 29-year old, Snowden who leaves a long-term relationship, his family, his job and his country, knowing he can never return.

By law, photographers in southeast England, with a few days holiday, have to make a pilgrimage to Dungeness, which is how I found myself in, probably, the most COVID-safe environment in this crowded corner of the country.

It gave me an excellent opportunity to test a new-to-me, black and white film, Fomapan 400.

As a newspaper obsessive, during the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown, I’ve been compiling and reviewing a list of films set in newspapers. This is the complete list of films I’ve discovered so far.

One of the habits I’ve been trying to form during lockdown is to write more frequently in my Journal. My other lockdown preoccupation has been trying to print more of my work. So the opportunity to combine the two and make my own Journal was just too good to pass up.

For the first time, I decide to rent some gear for a shoot. In the past, I'd always managed to borrow what I needed or get by with what I had. But there's only so long you can live off of the generosity of others. Conventional wisdom says you don’t buy the gear you’re only going to use occasionally. It’s better to rent what you need.

Camera reviews aren’t really my thing but a couple of people have asked what I think of my new (to me) Nikon D700, so I was tempted to give it a go. This is purely my subjective opinion of the D700 rather than a detailed technical analysis, the D700 has been around long enough for there to be quite a few of those.