Along with my photo taking in late 2025, I also brought along my (very heavy) Bronica ETRSi setup, where possible. I feel a little bad not shooting very often with my ETRSi, it's a great camera system and I love shooting 120 (even if I am only getting 15 shots per roll). But I guess I get "decision paralysis", more with what to shoot, as I mentally hear ka-ching! sounds each time I press that shutter.

Anyway, I took a photo of these power lines when I was on holiday with my family last April (wow! that long ago!) and I like how this turned out, it almost looks like an album cover from Massive Attack or something.

I'm a real sucker for G.A.S, a term that a lot of photographers use that stands for Gear Acquisition Syndrome. It's a terrible disease, where hobby photographers such as myself pour thousands of dollars into photography equipment, particularly gear that has a very specific or niche use. It's a debilitating condition, causing the patient to be surrounded by marvelous examples of precise optical engineering, which in turn makes the patient euphoric with joy (and their loved ones angry because of this month's credit card statement).

I am lucky that I am in a point in my life, where my job pays well, my wife and kids are well looked after, we're not living beyond our means and I have some small disposable income. To which I splurge on things that I think are pretty cool, even if I don't get a chance to use them that often. One example of this, is my new-to-me Bronica ETRSi.