26 August, 2025
Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop
Craftsmanship is fascinating. It’s almost magical how we can see things in our head and make them happen. This is true for every bit of wisdom that humans have come up wit...
24 August, 2025
A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll
If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes. I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive o...
24 August, 2025
Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v
Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...
22 August, 2025
The Shape of Loneliness – One Shot Story
Taken in Boston, January 2011 with the Minolta 500mm f/8 reflex on my Alpha 9. At this focal length, even ordinary things become intriguing. It’s a perspective I don’t have with...
21 August, 2025
5 frames from my first roll of Kentmere 200
On the basis that with a new film it’s useful to see as many examples as possible, here are 5 frames from my first (half) roll of Kentmere 200. I put a roll in my Olympus ...
20 August, 2025
5 frames with my Minox 35GT
I first got interested in photography in around 1982, at the tender age of 15, saving my pocket money to buy a Zenit EM, and three years later, having started work, a Minolta X3...
20 August, 2025
Earth, Air, Fire and Water – in Sapporo
A two-day relaxing trip to Sapporo, Japan – at least as relaxing as 70,000 steps of photo-walks can be in 31°C. The title emerged from the images I happened to take rather than ...
19 August, 2025
Fujifilm Velvia 50 and an Aesthetic of Necessity
I’ve recently been digging through folders and shoeboxes, looking for photos I shot in Venice in January 1995. That was a painting trip, but of course I took some cameras with m...
