18 November, 2024
Spectacular Vernacular. Memory and Legacy.
The camera is a memory machine. And a legacy one. Photography is all about recording memories (or creating them) and building, whether you like it or not, a legacy. They, the me...
17 November, 2024
The Gigapixel Image
I’d like to report an interesting (well, I thought so anyway) discussion that took place at my village camera club the other day. The topic was “How to Achieve a G...
29 October, 2024
What does a perfect camera need?
During the pandemic, I found a Canon Rebel T7 that my father had won through a miles program and never took it out of the box, and I started photographing to kill time. Naturall...
9 October, 2024
Hope in Creativity
Ever since my initial encounter with a camera, when I was gifted my first one at age 6 from my dear Mum – it was clear that it sparked something inside me. As time passed,...
8 September, 2024
Kamera with a K – An ode to a love of Kamera: Shooting Seoul with a long missed Zeiss Ikon ZM
I love cameras and this is a little bit of a love story. I always have – ever since I picked up my older brothers much used Halina 35X and put a roll of Tudor – a UK...
4 September, 2024
When Kitsch Becomes Collectible
I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like ...
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 q...
28 August, 2024
The Stupidity of Being Stubborn
I knew exactly that I was going to fail, but I did it anyway, irrationally thinking that for some not well clear reason the law of physics and optics could be defied by the sacr...
