Having seen Hamish’s and David’s posts, in for a penny, in for a pound I thought and decided I’d submit a ‘favourite picture’. To be honest, I don&...
7 November, 2026
5 (-ish) Frames of CCD Magic with an Olympus X-250
Sometime in 2025 we decided to go to the UK for our summer vacations. Plans were hatched and discarded again, countless flight options were checked and finally we decided to go ...
6 November, 2026
Back in the Game: Week One, Flowers
At the end of 2022, I joined a weekly photo game run by Kenneth Wajda. Each week there was a prompt, and the rules were simple: shoot, develop, scan, and submit a photograph mat...
6 November, 2026
My favourite photo of 2026 – isn’t even about photography
I just went to watch the sunset from the local viewpoint, grabbing my bag (with camera) as a matter of course. It was a beautiful calm evening, cooling after the heat of the day...
5 November, 2026
The Famous Five – One Shot Story
Things are a bit hectic in my life at the moment. Hot days – when, at 78, I don’t necessarily need to go out into the sun – alternate with rainy days, when I no longer want to c...
5 November, 2026
A Question of Scale – My Favourite Photo of 2026
This is my favourite photograph of the year. It’s not my best photo – it’s my favourite. The reason this is my favourite is because it shows what I’m playing with at the m...
5 November, 2026
Once upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s.
I haven’t enjoyed any photography lately, and haven’t picked up a camera since early Summer when I last posted an article here, that was with my Voigtlander Ultramat...
4 November, 2026
Architecture of Compliance – Abbotsford Convent, Australia
From 1863 until its deactivation in 1975, the Abbotsford Convent was one of the largest welfare institutions in Australia, receiving thousands of girls and women who were abando...
