24 July, 2025
It wos the camera wot done it – A one shot story
Or to give it its full title, ‘Nothing to do wiv me, guv. It wos the camera wot done it, honest.’ Towards the end of a canal walk in North London on one of the hotte...
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2 July, 2025
Pêche sur l’herbe – A one shot story
I had this bright idea for a Five Frames piece based around a return to a childhood stomping ground The place I had in mind is a 240 acre area of greenery that forms an as yet u...
5 January, 2025
Orwell’s Greenwich – A Photo Essay
‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ The opening sentence of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ is, like...
19 November, 2024
Tripcock Ness – A One Shot Story
Looks mundane doesn’t it? No matter how I tried to dress it up – choosing a day of dramatic clouds and hanging a fortuitously discarded lifebouy on the railings – there...
18 September, 2024
5 Frames with a Retinette 1B and Lomochrome Metropolis – Patina at Lullingstone Castle
Situated in the Darenth Valley in north-west Kent Lullingstone Castle is a rare survivor, a manor house and grounds that have remained in the same family for centuries, since 14...
6 August, 2024
5 Frames with a Fed-2 – New aspects, old subject
Following up our photo walk last year Tim Wainwright, Bob Janes and I met up at the end of May for another one. This time it was in Greenwich, familiar stomping ground for Bob a...
15 June, 2024
Seeking Stefan – A One Shot Story
According to my friend Stefan I have a doppelgänger. He goes by the name of Robert apparently. Although doppelgänger usually receive a bad press I’ve never really consider...
Stuart Jenkins recently posted an article on Fixing the Fujica SLR lens compatibility problem. The problem being that a design issue prevents some M42 lenses being used wide ope...