This week’s image is a detail of a photograph sent to us by David Stacey, one of the 21 artists represented in the Art Room Xmas Show at the Thebes Gallery from Saturday. “Occasionally when I am motivated and I can’t sleep I get up in the middle of the night to take photographs,” he says. “This one was taken at about four in the morning, last February. I took it on an old Nikon on a tripod using a two-minute exposure. I was looking for an image with not too many street lights, allowing the ones that were in the background to build up on the exposure.” We love the grainy light that this has produced behind the angel. And we love the fact that David, in this digital day and age, is still using film, which seems so much better a medium for creating moods. The artistry used in the darkroom to develop prints from negatives seems much more authentic than that needed to manipulate digital images with Photoshop. Or is that just being old-fashioned?