Phil, I do love that your dedication to booze is (just) trumped by your eye for a great snap. I've sort of given up mentioning how much I love your work and assume that you take it as given....but I also enjoy the back-story and the comments every time
Now, regarding the finer points of LF focusing....erm yeah. Hands up who thinks I did anything other than stand in the kitchen with a semi-interested model, throw a dark cloth over my head (item closest to hand on this occasion was an apron), focus quickly while being tutted at, scream, "Right, I think your eyes are sharp....now don't bl**dy move!", then take a gamble on the best aperture (the old DOF versus length-of-exposure gamble when you can't see what you're actually taking a photo of), pray that the 405 holder went in the way I think it did (one way you lose the top of the ground glass image, the other, you lose the bottom) and then trip the shutter.
Slick as a BP executive...thass me
Francois: I'm glad you like the colour one. There is a certain joy to it that I'm proud of.
Carlos: I love your three for this weekend. Great stuff. What's the story with the axe man? C'mon, tell us.