Creative block has been defined as the mind's inability to access its own creativity. So while creative block is a phenomenon of the mind, it is nevertheless real and plagues ma...
I got my Nikon F2 as a gift from a friend of mine who had for a long time been working in Japan - he also took photography as his hobby. Returning to Vietnam he gave up film pho...
This is a story of, yes, a spur of the moment 4x5 portrait session from my habitual morning visit to Angelina's Cafe. I have a daily delicious scone baked with care by Chelsea. ...
A recent re-associating with the Pentax Spotmatic F had me pondering about some of the other ‘Golden Oldies’ that have been sitting by the skirting board in my liv...
My mother used to say that when she was young she wished she had learned to smoke cigarettes. Because she always liked the smell of tobacco and it looked sophisticated. But she...
I backed the Reveni Labs Light Meter pretty much the moment I saw it had gone live - I had a small advantage as I knew it was happening before, but I was still a little disappoi...
While out photoing in the rural Manchester and Glasgow, Scott County, Illinois areas, I stopped into the Winchester Historic Square area, and made a beeline for the Antique stor...
A roll of Kodak Ektar 100 had been sitting unused in my basement fridge for almost a year. It was an impulse buy while at a local camera shop last summer, and because it was so ...