If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.

There are many variations of this quote from Quentin Crisp. They’re all slightly different, and they all share the same underlying truth. There’s no point spending your life wishing for what you can’t have. Just make the most of what you have. So it is with life. So it is with photography.

I would love to live in the Scottish Highlands. Birds, seascapes, moody mountain views. But I don’t. I live in an urban village on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I have a beach (how many people would want that withing walking distance!) I have some small parks, and I have Edinburgh City Centre just a 25 minute bus ride from my front door. And so, mostly, I shoot street photography. It may not be my first choice, but it’s accessible, it’s enjoyable, and – very important – you don’t need expensive equipment.

This photo pretty much exemplifies this approach to photography. I’m not really much into pretty sunset photos. I’m definitely not someone to chase rainbows. But when I’m sitting with a friend, drinking a pint of lager, and that classic rainbow shot falls into view – well, it would be rude not to. It’s even quite stylish, as Quentin Crisp might say.