Getting a new camera is a weird thing, like learning how to walk, or learning to speak a new language. Everything that was so familiar is gone: the grip on the camera’s body, its weight around your neck, the settings you always used or that type of film you liked to shoot with.

I took my new (digital) camera for its first field trip to Gigha, a small island on the west of Kintyre. It felt like travelling with a stranger, someone I know I will end up to adore, but that I can’t quite read yet. We both needed to learn to know each other.

The short adventure itself was a glimpse of everything Scotland can be: delivering newspapers to the island small shop, swimming in the cold sea and reading outside, petting every horse on the island.

My new friend did great. Fast, light, fun, bright. I can tell we’re gonna get along.