3 February, 2026
The Drinking Stone – a One Shot Story.
Perched on a ledge just above the road through the Hafren Forest in Mid-Wales this huge boulder was given the name from it’s habit of descending at dawn each day to the river be...
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28 December, 2025
A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025
13th May 2025, early afternoon. The oak trees had only just fully come into leaf and it was a beautiful day, hot with clear blue skies and a gentle breeze. But none of the photo...
27 November, 2025
The Legendary Zeiss Super Ikonta 530/15
The featured image shows a Zeiss Ikonta family gathering. Left to right: Super Ikonta 530/16, Super Ikonta 530/15, Moscow 4 (the dodgy East European cousin), and a baby, the Iko...
4 November, 2025
5 Frames with Royalty at a Food Festival
I took a German/Italian Countess to a food festival the other week thinking it was the sort of outing she might enjoy, local artisan food producers along with some art and craft...
18 August, 2025
Voigtländer Bessa 46 – It’s Quite Good Actually.
I bought this Voigtländer Bessa 46 in a job lot of 4 cameras, it wasn’t the one I bought the lot for and to be honest it looked the least promising of them all and I had taken n...
5 August, 2025
Bentley JPG 378 – a One Shot Story.
Of what follows almost nothing could be true, or it all could be. The problem is that it comes mainly from my childhood memories and there is no-one left to corroborate or not. ...
10 July, 2025
5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.
The ruins of Raglan Castle dominate the landscape mid-way between Abergavenny and Monmouth in South Wales and will be familiar to anyone travelling the A40 between the towns. Th...
8 June, 2025
Rocamadour with an EOS3 and Velvia 100
Writing about my EOS3 got me wondering, when had I last used it exactly, and on what? Looking through my notes showed use had gradually petered out and towards the end the photo...