Looks mundane doesn’t it? No matter how I tried to dress it up – choosing a day of dramatic clouds and hanging a fortuitously discarded lifebouy on the railings &#x...
Chances are, if you’re into film photography, you’ve at least heard the terms ‘pushing’ and ‘pulling’ film. In a nutshell, pushing or pulling...
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...
As a amateur photographer forced against your will to work in some non-camera based occupation, your holidays (vacations, for my friends across the pond) are one of the few occa...
This is a story of one man’s journey in seven photographs. It was actually meant to be a discussion about the superb resolving power of lenses and emulsions in the very e...
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...
Dave Powell had recently published a post about his adventures with c-mount marble macros. I commented on that post saying he had inspired me to shoot my marbles which were rece...
“Happy accidents?” I often muse on my growing fascination with analogue photography. Digital was my starting point, my comfort zone when I needed to “get the...