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28 March, 2025
Takayama in the Spring – A One Shot Story
As I write this the first days of March are quickly giving way to the promise of another magnificent Spring in Japan. Every photographer should have late March-early April marke...
28 March, 2025
AstrHori 28mm f/13 Macro 2:1 probe lens review
I should start by saying that this AstrHori 28mm f/13 Macro 2:1 probe lens is probably the most unusual and specialist lens I’ve used in my 40-year photography career. The AstrH...
27 March, 2025
A night by the banyan with Nikon FM2 and Tollygrunge Noir
It was late in the evening and I was starting to get restless, which is not unusual when I seem to have nothing to do. Then I figured out that I actually had something to do, wh...
27 March, 2025
5 Frames of Grandkids with a $5 Digital Camera from Walmart
I’m cheap. Not as cheap as my youngest brother. He once tried to negotiate the price when on the phone ordering a take-out pizza. So when the popular Slickdeals website li...
There is no ‘forever’ in life (life included), and apart from more mundane matters, this is especially true of photography. In fact, the ‘infidelity rate’...
My story begins with some good fortune and some bad luck. I purchased a Leica MP about a year ago; this was the good fortune! But recently it started to develop an unusual crack...
25 March, 2025
The Boat and the Heron – One Shot Story
Maybe you’ve experienced it – a moment so still it seems like time has stopped. It could be from intense focus or a deep calm, but the moment has probably cemented itself ...
25 March, 2025
Malvern Hills Cloud Inversion with a Pentax Q7
Over the Christmas break, we had a series of maybe 5 days of fog. It was that proper fog that just doesn’t seem to go away throughout the day and after a while starts to feel a ...
