As far as I recall, I got to this point five years ago when I just stopped doing Photography. The point where scanning the negs and putting the digital images obtained on Flickr so that virtual friends and passers-by can say "Great shot!" has lost its appeal. The point where instead of "Great shot!" people in-real-life need to be saying of an actual Print, "Hmm... £60 quid, eh? That would go nicely in the hall."

My last bit of experimentation was with 6x9 contact prints, and I'll come back to that eventually, but the rest of 2018 is about getting to be really good with 35mm, that means the Nikon, black and white, and 10x12 or 11x14 prints. I've just finished Victor Blackman's My Way with a Camera, probably the best book about photography I've ever read, and I'm going to adopt the strategy of being a press photographer circa 1970, and showing up at any potentially photogenic event in Glasgow, Nikon F in hand.

Not to sell them to a paper, obviously, but to sell the prints to discerning punters. And put them in competitions. Per Vic Blackman, the only criteria is that they have people in them, and action. Photos of empty streets just won't cut it. So here we are:

• Great Women's Run, West End, 10th June
• Orange Parade, Duke St and City Centre, 7th July. 
• Pride Parade, City Centre to West End, 14th July. 
• The World Pipe Band Championships, Glasgow Green, 17-18th August.