16 November, 2025
On Prizes and Awards (a Long and Tiring Musing)
Prizes and awards are ubiquitous also in the photography world. There is an award for everything, and I wouldn’t be suprised to discover an award for the best photo award ...
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15 November, 2025
5 Frames with Canon AE1 in California Wine Country
In 1993, I was working for Dan Gurney’s All American Racers racing team. The team was in the midst of an historic run of successes in the IMSA GTP series, dominating by winning ...
15 November, 2025
Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...
14 November, 2025
The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story
For decades, it was established in 1963, not only the students of the Liceo Classico on the other side of Via Venezia, but almost all the inhabitants of my hometown, paid a visi...
14 November, 2025
A Stone Igloo – My favourite photo of 2025
This photo was taken whilst on a hike with my local walking group, the Sheffield 40s/50s ramblers group, with my Rollei 35T that often comes with me on daywalks, because of its ...
14 November, 2025
Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera
This post was one of my first few on 35mmc, that’s after lurking for a few years before I plucked up enough courage and audacity to get some of my photos and writing publi...
13 November, 2025
5 Frames with Kodak Portra 800 Pushed to 3200 at Thin Air Exhibition
Portra 800 has always been a film stock reserved for “Special Occasions”. Frugal shooting doesn’t often lend to nearly £20 for a roll of 36 shots, so when I do decide to shoot a...
