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11 June, 2025
Remnants of the gone jolly days – A one shot story
There is something intriguing about this photograph here, something that moves me in a way few of my photographs did. When I saw the harlequin head lying on a makeshift pile of ...
11 June, 2025
My five rules for taking street portraits
“Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.” — Michael Jordan Asking someone on the street for their portrait is a bit like asking someone on a dat...
10 June, 2025
Fragments of Life – A One Shot Story
For there upon a bed of soft wool lay the most splendid jewel, a jewel such as Dyson had never dreamed of, and within it shone the blue of far skies, and the green of the sea by...
10 June, 2025
Let the Sky Fall – Part 1
Let thy west wind sleep on the lake; Speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver. – William Blake St. Andrews West Sands Beach, March 2025 An ora...
9 June, 2025
A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months
It’s been one year since I unexpectedly came into custody of a Hasselblad 500CM and a Leica M2. This opened up a whole new creative outlet for me and has become a very ab...
Having been drooling over Hamish’s article on the Minolta TC-1 and full of fond memories of a black Contax TVS III I used to have, being the best of the Contax T series I&...
8 June, 2025
Can Time “Slip”? – One-Shot Story
I think H.G. Wells did centuries of disservice to future scientists when he wrote “The Time Machine.” It’s a great story, but its title and text subtly imply that a machine is r...
8 June, 2025
Rocamadour with an EOS3 and Velvia 100
Writing about my EOS3 got me wondering, when had I last used it exactly, and on what? Looking through my notes showed use had gradually petered out and towards the end the photo...
