“..I dream my limbs and head are the five rivers that make fertile the land of my ancestors. I dream about wild music, about longing, about an end to thirst…” ...
19 June, 2025
Byzantium – Ancient Constantinople, Modern Istanbul – On Film and Through the eye of my Contax G2
This is a record of a couple of trips I took back in 2007/2008. I brought along my Contax G2, 45mm Planar, 90mm Sonnar and 21mm Biogon plus a load of different films to use. Eve...
10 June, 2025
Let the Sky Fall – Part 1
Let thy west wind sleep on the lake; Speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver. – William Blake St. Andrews West Sands Beach, March 2025 An ora...
8 June, 2025
Rocamadour with an EOS3 and Velvia 100
Writing about my EOS3 got me wondering, when had I last used it exactly, and on what? Looking through my notes showed use had gradually petered out and towards the end the photo...
4 June, 2025
Don’t Turn Your Back on the Water! – One-Shot Story
Cliff climbing, anyone? These volcanic basalt columns on Reynisfjara Beach on Iceland’s southern coast are one of the country’s several answers to northern Ireland’s more well-k...
I’ve been digging in the vaults lately, having too much time on my hand and a new scanner I had been putting together an article on a Contax TVS I, TVS II, TVS II and T2 &...
28 May, 2025
Scaling Skellig Michael (with a Fuji F31fd)
You can’t climb Ireland’s Skellig Michael monastery island if the gods of rain, wind, waves and tides are against you. Sure, you can go to the lovely small village of Portmagee,...
27 May, 2025
A Photo That Came From Nothing – One Shot Story
Once I grew up, I found it much harder to answer simple questions that had once been effortless as a child, questions like “what’s your favorite band” or “who’s your best friend...