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18 August, 2025
Robert Frank’s View in Butte, Montana – One Shot Story
When my wife, Darby, and I mapped out our recent road trip through the American West, it was not our intention to follow the same route that Robert Frank took in the mid-1950s w...
18 August, 2025
Voigtländer Bessa 46 – It’s Quite Good Actually.
I bought this Voigtländer Bessa 46 in a job lot of 4 cameras, it wasn’t the one I bought the lot for and to be honest it looked the least promising of them all and I had taken n...
17 August, 2025
It’s Time for the Soft-Focus Revival!
Try it! The most salient learning of my soft-focus foray was a greater awareness for light! With hindsight, that alone was worth it. But I enjoyed so much more in my journey fro...
17 August, 2025
Looking for Daenerys Targaryen in Astapor – Street Photography in Magical Essaouira with an Olympus E-1
Astapor in Essos Game of Thrones. I took a while to watch the series, having read the (Song of Ice and Fire) books when they were released many years ago I wasn’t too keen on wa...
Last July, 29 I covered leg of Al Di Meola’s tour taking place in Abruzzo —my home region— for a magazine I work for. For once, I could have accepted an assignment even i...
16 August, 2025
Box Brownie No. 2 Special – the last 120 Box Brownie.
Kodak No. 2 Brownie Special. Rollei 80S.
15 August, 2025
‘One Third Keepers’ with Kentmere Pan 200 and a Minolta SRT 101
The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...
15 August, 2025
Kodak Retinette IB Type 037 – Cheap is Not Always Nasty
Apart from the Pentax 17, new film cameras are not exactly hitting the shelves every month. While film continues to be popular its a fact that we have to shoot older and ageing ...
