21 October, 2025
My friend Volkmar – Frames of a Life
Some of you may have seen the last Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro used a huge fountain pen from Montblanc in it. My friend Volkmar Bendig, an actor ...
21 October, 2025
5 Frames with a Canon EOS 5000, 50mm f/1.8, and Kepler 800
I’ve shot a variety of films before, both color and black and white, from Portra to HP5, but I had never experimented with motion picture stock like Kodak Vision3 500T. I had se...
21 October, 2025
A Few Frames with a Canon P and how I found myself on 35mmc
I have been a member of FLICKR for many years and only show my photos there. I joined when I retired and had more time for my hobby. At that time I expected to meet many like-mi...
20 October, 2025
Pretend Geisha – One Shot Story
This was in 2015, the same year I began the project Nansensu. A local TV celebrity came across my early work. She asked me to make something ‘darker than boudoir’, something pri...
Some cameras make you feel clever. The Voigtländer Bessa L makes you feel… well, slightly mad. A 35mm body without a viewfinder is like a pub without beer: technically possible,...
18 October, 2025
Black and White Panoramic Photography in the Philippines
The Philippines greeted me with its rhythm and endless beauty. I did not set out with grand plans. My only certainty was to pack the Hasselblad XPan and a few rolls of black and...
16 October, 2025
The Rover returns – A one shot story
As an impressionable thirteen year old, the new Rover P6 3500 S driven by Dave, one of my snorkelling instructors, had me transfixed. The smart Rover ferried a few of us to a lo...
16 October, 2025
Cinevilla in Black and White: Shooting the Nikon FE2, 28mm f/2.8 AIS, and Kodak 400TX in Latvia’s open-air film studio
Photography as an art form has been around since 1826 or 1827. Nicephore Niépce used heliography with a pewter plate coated in bitumen. The development process took around 8 hou...
