22 June, 2024
In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works
I have recently discovered Viltrox, a Chinese manufacturer of lenses for the Fujifilm X-system. I am using the AF 85/1,8 II XF and the AF 56/1,4 XF and I am very satisfied by th...
19 June, 2024
My First Five Rolls of Film (Ever)
I didn’t mean to get into shooting film. It was never my plan, never something I set out to do. I certainly had no idea that the format was becoming popular again, or more popul...
This shot, taken during the Italian Road Running National Championships, is a fair application of the French philosopher Henri Bergson aphorism to composition: the eye sees what...
11 June, 2024
What does it take to be a Photographer?
In photography’s infancy, the mark of a photographer was black fingers from contact with the chemicals used (and probably a pale complexion). In the later 20th century, a kind o...
31 May, 2024
Seeing in Black and White
I was photographing in colour for over 50 years. Occasionally I’d put a B&W film in the camera but I was still photographing in colour, there just happened to be B&W fil...
28 May, 2024
Expired Film – My Hows and Whys
I’m writing this because expired film generates a fair bit of internet interest and chatter. It’s also something with which I have reasonable experience and I’ve formed my own i...
Living in Japan has been a privilege in many ways – cheap and healthy convenience store meals, decent coffee for a dollar, interesting scenery, and for folks like us – access to...
18 May, 2024
Looking Back at my First Roll of Film
It was June 2015, the first month of Melbourne’s winter, and I had tired of digital photography. I had bought an entry level Nikon DSLR in January of 2015 as a move up from the ...
