As Liverpool faced PSG in a high-stakes Champions League clash, one fan turned to the meditative art of slow photography to quieten the nerves. As the clock ticked down toward L...
There is no ‘forever’ in life (life included), and apart from more mundane matters, this is especially true of photography. In fact, the ‘infidelity rate’...
My story begins with some good fortune and some bad luck. I purchased a Leica MP about a year ago; this was the good fortune! But recently it started to develop an unusual crack...
21 March, 2025
DSLR-like…?
I decided to write this post after having stumbled across the next ethusiast review of a smartphone published on a reputable magazine, claiming that the device can deliver ̵...
18 March, 2025
Remembering an old, broken camera.
More than a decade ago, and I remember this as though it were yesterday, I was sitting in a North London pub waiting for my girlfriend to arrive. I had been taking photos with d...
7 March, 2025
Marilyn Monroe in Banff – A Zero Shot Story
This story is for all the great photos we miss when we don’t have our cameras with us… Marilyn Monroe had an outsize presence in my childhood growing up in Pittsburg...
At some point in life, everyone needs a “Jim.” A Jim is someone who comes along during that crucial time (generally your early-20s), when you start to believe you ...
24 February, 2025
To Do or To Own? (or the Photographer’s Dilemma)
To Own or To Do is the photographer’s version of Erich Fromm’s dilemma posed in his famous essay, ‘To Have or to Be’. I don’t have the authority to...