My little point-and-shoot has produced another couple of front page photos for this week's Ross-shire Journal. This time it was for a story about a piece of falling brick that nearly killed a pedestrian and resulted in a busy road being closed.

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What's great about these little cameras is that they don't arouse much suspicion. Turn up with a whopping DSLR and people are immediately on guard because they assume the pictures are going to end up in print somewhere. With a point-and-shoot you're just another onlooker.

The close-up shot of the brick was obtained simply by putting on a high-vis jacket, walking confidently on to the site and asking where the brick was. Naturally they asked why I wanted a photo of it so I told them it was "to have a record of the incident", which was perfectly true. As I was doing the photo someone did ask me outright who I worked for so I stalled for a few seconds while I made sure I got some useable shots, then casually said that I do photos for the paper. I expected that to get me thrown off the site immediately but it didn't, leaving me with time to position the Coke bottle next to the brick to give some sense of scale.