8 October, 2026
Looking forward to Winter (Not)
It’s a long story but I was searching for some photos from my handbag modelling career. Well, career is an exaggeration, it was just a day helping a couple of friends who had st...
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15 September, 2026
Peace… But a Storm is Coming
Living in a city for most of my adult life I only had the opportunity to appreciate the joys of watching a sunset in familiar surroundings when I moved to farmland in Hokkaido. ...
4 September, 2026
Just a sec
I often see older men (and they are always men – “camera ojisan” in Japan) sporting the latest digital equipment, following in the steps of Shinzo Maeda, the camera standing on ...
3 September, 2026
“Big Yellow Taxi”
The song by Joni Mitchell contains the much quoted line “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”. Every time I came back from town I passed within a couple of metres of “...
20 August, 2026
5 Eclipse Frames with a Zeiss Loxia Planar 50mm f2 lens…
…on a Sony A7Riii. In addition I had a “K&F Concept Nano-K variable ND 2-400″ filter which I used set to maximum for the eclipse images and one of the other fram...
2 August, 2026
Why I shoot film
Process. Process. Process. Purpose dictates decisions about kit (as well as timing, location etc.): do I have a pre-planned set of images I want to take, or is it a photo-walk s...
30 July, 2026
Pentax Pair – Two ME Supers – Do they still work?
One camera was mine, bought new around 1985/6 and with a near final serial number according to the net. It was used by my wife for some years then she said the back was coming o...
28 July, 2026
Jupiter 8 and Tamron 500 SP – Two cheap lenses
No, I’m not a flower photographer, and this isn’t a review, merely my thoughts after a few hours playing with two second-hand lenses costing about ₤40/€45/$50 each. Specifically...