I found out recently why sometimes you get the cyclists riding through places like the Ridgeway even during the evening and really early in the morning
they often do weekend rides called audaxes where you have to do 100,200 or 300km in a night – its long distance on varied terrain (anything from paths to normal roads) and you can either treat it as a race or just do it for the distance) – but because of the routes it often starts at night and carries through till the morning. (so FFS don’t block the paths as you are fucking up their times to get to the next checkpoints!)
as for digital cameras, a digital SLR is about £500 but you can get a compact with switchable auto/manual features (which is what you will want to use for creative photography) for far less than that (about £250-£300).
I use Olympus compacts mostly as a digital SLR is too bulky and expensive for me (plus if you have an SLR style camera at a rave people get even more para that you are a journo or evidence gatherer)
