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
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...
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
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...
14 October, 2025
Shielded – Photographing Ukrainian Refugees in Denmark
August 24th, the day when I began writing this article, marked the Independence Day of Ukraine. By coincidence, it is also a symbolic semi-annual cæsura of Russia’s full-s...
12 October, 2025
Portrait Photography – How I Approached Strangers at a Wedding
Last year, I was invited to a wedding, where I knew about 10 people out of the 130 plus guests. Unfortunately, they were working, so I was alone amongst a lot of people who were...
12 October, 2025
Florence on film
When I was nineteen, I dreamed of becoming a professional cyclist. Although, I was living in Northern Ontario, where the winters are long, I spent the short summers riding for h...
Often, I find it is easy to simply breeze past the day-to-day sights and sounds of life. We walk into a coffee shop and forget how much we love the smell of espresso. We pass by...
