15 December, 2024
Three days on a island with a roll of film
One of the memories I have about photography is of family trips with a classic Olympus Trip 35. The camera is long gone, but some photos still remain with tones ranging from the...
8 December, 2024
Returning to the Hakone Turnpike
It was a balmy midsummer’s morning, which in coastal Japanese terms equates to an omnipresent buzz of cicadas and the thick heavy grasp of coastal humidity that one learns...
7 December, 2024
Minolta 16MG & Adox CMS 20 II – Zones 5 through 9
Using high contrast film on architectural subjects with 16mm.
7 December, 2024
Get out and Photograph a Tree!
Get out and photograph a tree because “the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”. There’s a tree growing not far from wh...
5 December, 2024
Mystery Films – Found, Developed and Scanned
While going through my boxes of photography gear I came by not one, but two rolls of undeveloped T-Max 400. I had no idea what those rolls contained, or when they had been shot....
5 December, 2024
A Camera Trio in Rio
Rio de Janeiro means ‘River of January’ in Portuguese. This name was chosen by the explorers who first arrived in their tiny wind-blown ships on January 1, 1502. C...
4 December, 2024
Hydra on 35mm
I learned about Hydra during my university years. I was in a ‘Leonard Cohen phase’ and learned that he lived on the Greek island during an early phase of his life....
30 November, 2024
Shooting in a cemetery leads to uncovering a local tragedy (and then another). Dangerous currents.
In 2022 I visited the churchyard at St Mary the Virgin at Horton near Blyth to shoot one of my favourite subjects – memorial stones. There has been a church on this site s...
