27 January, 2026
Ilford HP5 Plus at a Historical Engine Factory
After getting back into film and starting the Analogue Photography series with the iconic Kodak Tri-X, I turned to its European counterpart for this round — the equally legendar...
25 January, 2026
A Kettle of Red
Perhaps not the typical way a project is started! Going through my reel of photos from 2025, for Hamish’s Photo of the Year competition, made me realize that many of my photos h...
21 January, 2026
100 or 200 skies – Kentmere vs Kentmere – Not really a fair contest
There is nearly always Kentmere film in the fridge. There are films I would prefer, but Kentmere rarely seems to be out of stock when it is shopping time. With a period of cold ...
19 January, 2026
Pakistan – 33 Years exploring – With the Olympus E1 and E3 DSLR’s and Steve – Part 1 in The Punjab
So, off I went to Pakistan again, but this time with my Welsh mate Steve. Been exploring the place for 33 years and only scratched the surface. Steve wanted to go to Pakistan, a...
17 January, 2026
Amsterdam, with RULES and a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm lens
The game was to use my digital camera (Sony A7Riii) as if it was a film camera so I set myself the following rules for our nearly four day trip to Haarlem and Amsterdam. A maxim...
15 January, 2026
Europe’s second city, with a Yashica Mat 124G
We took the train for the 36 minute journey – a day trip would have been easy but we wanted to spend a few days away enjoying the food and local attractions. It was a pleasant 1...
15 January, 2026
Relearning Film – Notes from a Returning Shooter
I’m relearning 35mm film. I grew up shooting on film. I’m 55 now, so my first camera was around 1984, when I was sixteen: a Minolta X-700, which I still have. Getting back into ...
13 January, 2026
Bringing an Helios 40-2 at the opera
At the end of the post about the test of a Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 I concluded: “I didn’t miss more modern gear, and I didn’t lose a single shot because of the oddnes...
