13 August, 2024
Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story
After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...
I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...
10 August, 2024
5 Frames Going Square with 35mm Film in a Minolta 24 Rapid
So you like square format but you don’t want to pay the price for medium format or bear the weight and prefer the convenience of 135. And if you can barely get through 36...
9 August, 2024
An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story
The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...
8 August, 2024
5 Frames with Ilford Ortho Plus
I’d been wanting to try some slower films and after a review decided to try some Ilford Ortho Plus. The opportunity to try it out came with a short trip to Somerset, so I ...
My journey into photography started when I was about 7 years old, in the early 80s, when I got a very simple Agfa Instamatic sensor camera (it took 126 film) as a gift from my a...
6 August, 2024
Agfa APX 400 pushed to 1600 – When Needs Must
During a business trip in Slovakia, deep and up in the Tatra mountains. The weather forecast was telling of upcoming bad weather, but as I am a mountain person myself, I was not...
6 August, 2024
5 Frames with a Fed-2 – New aspects, old subject
Following up our photo walk last year Tim Wainwright, Bob Janes and I met up at the end of May for another one. This time it was in Greenwich, familiar stomping ground for Bob a...
