4 November, 2026
The Strange Landscape of Parys Mountain
Parys Mountain is an old copper mine on the island of Anglesey in North Wales, established in the Bronze Age but heavily exploited in the 18th Century. It’s not actually a...
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22 October, 2026
Konica Infrared Film – Second Try a Year Later
Last year I used some Konica Infrared 750mm film that was given to me along with a collection of other 25+ year old fridge-stored films. The film turned out to be perfectly OK f...
22 September, 2026
Flamborough Head and Bridlington with Agfapan 25
Featured image above: Sea stack at Flamborough Head I was given some vintage (25+ years ago expiry dates) black and white films which had been fridge-stored. Amongst these was a...
18 January, 2026
Konica Infrared 750nm – Experimenting with Expired Infrared Film
A few months ago a professor at the University of Sheffield where I work gave me and some colleagues a couple of boxes of expired film, which were owned by his father. Most of t...
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 ...
16 June, 2025
Olympus XA1 – One roll mini-review
I have enjoyed owning and using various Olympus XA cameras for a while, but I had skipped over the XA1 with its fixed focus and protruding shutter button. I wondered why would t...
23 March, 2025
The whole roll – Holga 120 with Lomography 800
I had previously owned a Holga but for some reason or reasons which I can’t be bothered to dredge up from memory I abandoned it. I have a habit of making hasty decisions w...
8 December, 2024
Brighton montage – a one shot story
February 2014 at a conference in Brighton. I took my recently acquired Rollei B35 along with some Kodak Gold. In the less interesting intervals of the conference I sneaked out t...