2 September, 2025
Me and a Fish (Circa 1960) – A One Shot Story
One of my most vivid memories of growing up on Twenty Mile Stream Road in Proctorsville, Vermont, is of pulling that brook trout out of the small brook that flowed in back of ou...
2 September, 2025
5 frames in Switzerland with a MINOX 35 GT and Silbersalz 35 500T
I am a French electronics engineer, having spent most of my career in information systems. Now retired, I have more time to devote to photographic hobbies. I started photography...
1 September, 2025
Portraits of Sabrina – An Exercise in Photographic Therapy
It’s 1125BC; King Locrinus is King of the Britons. His wife, Gwendolen had learned her husband’s infidelity, of the illegitimate daughter born of Germanic Princess Estrild...
The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...
28 August, 2025
5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary
I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...
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...
