Holy Grail/Da Vinci code mystery solved!!

Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire has beautiful gardens and a well known but never decoded encrypted bit of sculpture known as the Shepherd's Monument, which bears a strange reproduction of the famous Poussin painting Les Bergers d'Arcadie (known to many mystery researchers under the name Et in Arcadia Ego). I can announce that today we have decoded the message beneath. Not very interesting actually.

Attack ponies in the New Forest

We took the caravan to the new forest for a couple of nights, stayed at Hollands Wood, which is a groovy campsite run by the Forestry Commission. Ponies wander round the site - it's a very interesting experience for townies unused to the equestrian arts. (Even if you are used to horses, they get a bit protective of their foals).

Here are some views from inside the caravan, taken with the Canon G9.

Corporate photography doesn't have to be boring

Corporate photography is often pictures of people in suits shaking hands. As this picture of the incoming head at Malvern College Prep School shows, they don't have to be dull and devoid of emotion.

The Beautiful Lewis lot

Rachel has been lucky enough to photograph this family several times - in fact the baby is the one lying on the sheets on our home page. My, hasn't she grown!

Informal family portraits are a speciality of Rachel's - there can't be many babies and children around Malvern that she hasn't photographed at some time or another!

Carol Klein at the Spring Gardening Show

We're usually asked to cover the Spring Gardening Show for Worcestershire Life, and this year was no exception. Here's Carol Klein of the BBC in full flow, taken by Rachel.

Blimey, it's an Emmy

Following on from Martyn, Rachel photographed the supremely talented Kate Hopkins, dubbing editor and sound designer at Wounded Buffalo in Bristol (www.woundedbuffalo.co.uk). Kate has designed sound for a huge number of BBC TV natural history programmes, not to mention Hellraiser III! When we were there she was producing underwater squid noises for the BBC, as you do.

And yes, that's an Emmy.

Blimey, it's a BAFTA

We were commissioned to photograph Martyn Harries, dubbing mixer extraordinaire at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol. When not mixing other people's sounds in the studio, he gets to make some of his own - so here he is producing the foot falls of David Attenborough in a box of gravel and the flapping of a gull's wings with some gloves. Funny old business, dubbing.

Martin is a thoroughly nice man, and won a BAFTA which obviously we tried to include in as many shots as possible!