12 September, 2024
The Boat Graveyard
The Gloucester and Sharpness ship canal – at one time the broadest and deepest in the world – connects the docks on the River Severn to the city of Gloucester about 16 miles awa...
11 September, 2024
Shooting Kite Surfing
Kite surfing is quite spectacular but difficult to photograph. As with any water sport, the main difference that affects the results is whether or not the photographer is embedd...
10 September, 2024
Kodak Ektramax Fireworks and a Cool 110 Tip
The above image is the cover of my Kodak Ektramax 110 camera’s substantial 34-page user manual. It’s more interesting than a straight pic of the camera itself, which Kodak made ...
Ibraar Hussain recently posted a review of a Chinon CE-4 and his experiences with it which I found very interesting. So interesting that a few days later a house-clearance, unte...
3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...
28 August, 2024
Burning the midnight oil with Ilford HP5 at 1600 ASA
Last time I have attended a night concert was back in August 2000, Bon Jovi playing at the old Wembley Arena. Great times, really great; but as with all good times, that concert...
27 August, 2024
A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras
My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinated with...
21 August, 2024
Flaybrick Memorial Gardens
Originally from Liverpool I moved to Birkenhead in 1982. It took me 33 years before I discovered the charm of Flaybrick. It began when I came across a photograph of an angel on ...
