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2 September, 2026
Street Photography is Tough
Street photography is tough. The way I see it, there are at least two approaches by which to achieve success. One requires stealth, quick reaction time, finely tuned powers of...
2 September, 2026
Born Chaotic
A film needs to be born twice before it shines. The first birth is the exposure. When a shutter is fired, a certain amount of light, bounced from physical objects, passes throug...
1 September, 2026
A Study in Deep Shade – A One Shot Story
This image was made one Saturday morning at about 8.30AM. At the time, the southern counties of England experienced three weeks of extreme heat, with temperatures rising to 30C ...
1 September, 2026
How I Meter Slide Film
Slide film is beautiful! Online though, it feels like there’s a lot of trepidation regarding metering for slide film. The common advice I’ve heard is to bracket your...
31 August, 2026
Wider Horizons – Making Panoramic Images
When photographers talk about “going wide”, the typical assumption is that they are referring to using lenses with shorter focal lengths. Yet many pictures that “feel” wide– suc...
30 August, 2026
A Pleasant Session of Photography at a Medieval Weekend
Our town put on a Medieval weekend, something I had not seen before, it seemed a good excuse to make some images on film. I visited over two days to be able to see different ena...
29 August, 2026
Filmomat PhotoPlug
As someone who has more film cameras than I need, I decided it would be interesting to know how accurate their shutters are. Obviously, you can tell the difference between 1 sec...
28 August, 2026
A Behind the Scenes Look at Shooting the World Cup
This summer the World Cup came to my hometown. This is a story about how a fantasy of shooting the tournament morphed into a dream, which turned into a goal, and then became re...
