20 December, 2023
5 Frames With a Trip 35 – A Brace of Olympi Pt. 2
Olympus compacts seemed to have been like London buses for a while round our way. No sooner had I caught the XA2 than it was closely followed by a Trip 35 at the same charity sh...
Peter Roberts's Posts
13 December, 2023
5 Frames With an XA2 – A Brace of Olympi, Pt. 1
Love them or hate them, and personally I love them, charity shops (read thrift stores or op shops if you will) have become a ubiquitous feature of most high streets. At their pr...
15 September, 2023
A One Shot Story For Battle Of Britain Day
Cutting a channel through the chalk of the North Downs from its source near Sevenoaks to where it joins the Thames near Dartford is the River Darent. Retaining the river’s...
Strange thoughts occur to me sometimes when travelling on trains. I happened to be passing through Nunhead on one earlier this year it struck me that I hadn’t yet visited ...
28 June, 2023
The Pop Up Herb Stall – A One Shot Story
London's Chinatown probably needs no introduction, it must be on the to do list of every tourist. But go there in the morning, as early as possible, and it presents a different ...
5 April, 2023
The Film Noir Cake Stand – A One Shot Story
In early December I spent a few hours over the course of a couple of days attempting to take shots inside Greenwich Market. As the result of a comment to my last post asking if ...
20 October, 2022
Boffin’s Bower Revisited – The First Chapter of an Ongoing Project – By Peter Roberts
In 1977 I was working on secondment at an office on Euston Road in London. I had recently upgraded to a Minolta SRT 303b and happening to see an invitation for entries to a phot...
8 May, 2022
5 Frames With a Minolta XD7 and Vivitar 28-85mm f/3.5-4.5 – Riding Route 101 – By Peter Roberts
One of my childhood memories is of family days out discovering different parts of London by bus in the late fifties and early sixties. Sometimes my father had a particular desti...
