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20 September, 2023

Everyday Abstracts: A Frank Benson “Splatter-work” (One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

In 2018, our friends Peter Engeldrum and Carol Keller invited Kate and me to spend a few days with them on Maine’s North Haven Island. It proved to be a more productive v...

15 September, 2023

A One Shot Story For Battle Of Britain Day

By Peter Roberts

Cutting a channel through the chalk of the North Downs from its source near Sevenoaks to where it joins the Thames near Dartford is the River Darent. Retaining the river’s...

30 August, 2023

A Pheasant Surprise (a One Shot Story)

By Jukka Reimola

This past spring I was in my study one day, desperately trying to bring a little cosmos to the prevailing chaos on my CD shelves. My study is situated to the rear of our h...

19 July, 2023

The Drum Room (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

During a brief period of unemployment more than 20 years ago, I offered my untrained photographic services to my sister-in-law Nancy. She was a leading realtor in Coldwell-Banke...

12 July, 2023

The “Blue Hour” from On High (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

This article’s title is, I think, appropriate. I shot the photo as our Lufthansa Airbus 340 winged its way from Boston to Italy (via Frankfurt) last May. Jetting east lik...

5 July, 2023

The “Pheasant Whisperer” (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Last May, Kate and I enjoyed a two-week trip through Italy’s spectacular Lake Region– just south of the snowy Dolomites at the Austro-Swiss borders. And at 11:44 on...

28 June, 2023

The Pop Up Herb Stall – A One Shot Story

By Peter Roberts

London's Chinatown probably needs no introduction, it must be on the to do list of every tourist. But go there in the morning, as early as possible, and it presents a different ...

14 June, 2023

Older than Dirt (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

No, I’m not talking about me. Though I have been accused! This story’s about lichen-- a YinYang symbiosis of two organisms: A fungus that harvests minerals for both from t...

Russ Rosener on The Southwestern Ontario Winter on Film – Don’t be a Fair-Weather Photographer
Looks like you, the cameras and your subjects all had FUN! How it easy is when immersed in a blizzard…
RichardH on Liege with a Leica iiig, Elmar 50mm f3.5, FP4, Fomapan 100 in PMK Pyro and an accident
This is interesting, Geoff. Is the PMK Pyro development a factor in the low contrast? Or, was the low contrast…
Daniel Castelli on The Southwestern Ontario Winter on Film – Don’t be a Fair-Weather Photographer
David, Thank you for taking one for the team, weatherwise. I. Hate.Snow. One of my photo heros, David Douglas Duncan,…

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