With this dark grey miserable harsh winter never ending I thought I’d add some colour into my (and your) day by writing about colour and my experience with it. Much has be...
I was developing film away from my darkroom. I had assembled the essential equipment and, because I knew that untreated tap water in Brussels used to be very hard, I had made up...
I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy ...
In the days before digital became the standard for sports photography, the SLR was king. Photographers lined up pitch-side to capture the action, Minolta, Nikon or Canon camera ...
Hamish asked me recently to write an article about my findings on the Carl Zeiss 38mm f/2.8 Sonnar (/Omnar CX38-28) when mounted on Hasselblad XCD and Fuji GFX cameras. Wait...
The original title of this picture, taken with a Yashica Zoomate 105, was ‘When the wait to see the doctor is too long’, and it was intended to illustrate how the &#...
Entering a new country without speaking the language on any level would be a powerful hindrance to setting up a social life for anyone. I was prepared to face many hours alone w...
If I’m away for more than two weeks I generally take or have available equipment to develop B&W film – a tank, reels, Rodinal and fixer. Other equipment can be...