I’ve been following this fine blog for many years now and look forward, (like most of you I’m sure), to reading each day’s article in my email. For some time, I’ve wanted to con...
25 May, 2023
5 frames of Berlin with my Ricoh 500G and Ilford HP5, Ilford FP4, Ilford XP2 and Fomapan 400
Yes, the title is long, but for a good reason. This trip to Berlin was my third or fourth photo expedition with the Ricoh 500G. I'm still getting used to this lovely little came...
My wife and I usually spend some time somewhere in the warm sunny south over the course of our too long winters in Ontario Canada. Not so this year. We were however looking fo...
I absolutely love long exposure night time photography, for me its a far more spiritual mindful time to shoot and that element of doubt and anticipation of just what you are goi...
20 April, 2023
5 Frames with an Olympus OM1, a roll of HP5 and a Bridge
I have a few film cameras that all mean something emotional to me (my Olympus XA2 I won in a photographic competition aged 12, my OM1 was my only camera for about 20 years until...
16 April, 2023
5 Frames with the Kodak Retina 1a & Very Expired Ilford FP4
Word is, Folding Kodak Retinas are a lovely piece of kit, provided your winding mechanism isn't broken. I had a beautiful Retina iia with a dodgy winder. F2 Schneider lens, nice...
23 March, 2023
5 Frames at the Gallery with a Nikon FM – By Tony Joslin
To add another dimension to my visit to the 'Air' exhibition at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, I decided to take my camera along. The gallery environment provided plenty of i...
I like knowing how things work. This is partly why I took up film photography in the first place, because I wanted to understand how pictures could be made. However, I’m not in ...