16 September, 2025
One Shot Story – Resilience
The year is 1938. It is 9 years into the Great Depression and my grandparents were a young couple with 3 children. Neither came from families that could offer anything in the ...
16 September, 2025
A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Pentax Spotmatic F / Kentmere Pan 200 / Fomadon R09 Camera and lenses: The Spotmatic F is a true classic. When I reviewed the camera here, I didn’t fit the lovely little 2...
15 September, 2025
5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)
Shooting film or digital is usually a what-am-I-in-the-mood-for kind of thing and when vacationing abroad, my usual impulse is to bring along a film camera. So a planned 2024 t...
13 September, 2025
5 Frames at a Farmers’ Market and a Nikkor 105mm f1.8
Farmers’ markets can be an important tool to help evaluate the usability of a lens. There are textures, colors, light, and shadows in abundance. The farmers’ market I visited th...
13 September, 2025
Master of Splatter
One midsummer’s night in San Benedetto del Tronto, a small town on the Adriatic coast, I attended a live concert by Claudio Simonetti, a living legend among Italian horror...
12 September, 2025
Lines in the Sky
For most of the past winter we lived under heavy cloud cover. At our northern latitude, clouds and winter make for dimly lit days. As a practitioner of the “sunny 16” system of ...
11 September, 2025
5 Frames on the River Severn with a Rolleiflex 2.8C
Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...
11 September, 2025
The Influence of Film on Film part 2 – Bellows to the Wind
Back in 2020 I wrote about my first venture into DIY film making with my short film Preserve. I was asked to contribute to 35mmc and felt it right to talk about the film, and ho...
