8 March, 2025
Maniototo Skies
The Maniototo is a wide open plain in the South Island of New Zealand. It sits at the same latitude as Queenstown, and is half way from there to the eastern coast of the island....
7 December, 2024
Get out and Photograph a Tree!
Get out and photograph a tree because “the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”. There’s a tree growing not far from where I live that I mus...
28 November, 2024
Welcome to the Gates of Hell
If you were to mention Turkmenistan in conversation to most people you would probably get a blank look, if you did get a flicker of recognition it would probably be followed up ...
19 November, 2024
Tripcock Ness – A One Shot Story
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 – there...
5 October, 2024
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Sometimes in life, we may be fortunate enough to stumble upon a place which delights the senses, quickens our imagination, and yet soothes the soul at the same time. One such a ...
16 July, 2024
5 Frames of Sunsets in Black and White
Aren’t sunsets about colour? Black and white is pattern and texture of course but more than that, for me at least, it captures the soul or atmosphere of the scene. I find black ...
30 June, 2024
Wind from northwest – One shot Story
Vacation on the Baltic Sea in September. The last few weeks have been very nice. A wonderful sunset glow upon arrival. In the morning wind from northwest. On the beach with my c...
15 December, 2023
Home on Mamiya RB67
I didn’t even realize it and two years have passed since I published my first and only article on the 35mmc blog. Even then, at the end of the article about my fascination...