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27 May, 2026
A Missed Opportunity – One Shot Story
Seen from the outside the scene was too perfect to be true. A truck stuck in a narrow street near Trevi’s Fountain, in Rome, trying to negotiate its way out, and the ad on...
Having succumbed to the temptation to impulse buy a camera that I knew only by its reputation for having long been the inexpensive way into medium format, a Lubitel 166, I decid...
20 February, 2026
My Brief Journey with “Blind” Leicas.
I have to admit that I have a soft spot for “blind” Leicas. The origin of these niche cameras comes from Leica side line of making camera bodies for the medical comm...
10 February, 2026
Fuji X-Half – Trying to prove Hamish wrong… and failing
A Month with a silly little Half Frame. Why?There’s so many reasons why I really didn’t need this camera. Ridicule and embarrassment is two of them. Its a silly litt...
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...
30 December, 2025
Exploring Hat Yai’s Famous Night Market with a roll of Kodak Tri-X
Hat Yai is the largest city in Southern Thailand, near the Malaysian border. It’s known for its blend of Thai, Chinese, and Muslim cultures, and for its culinary delights, inclu...
23 December, 2025
Bad Luck at Heian Jingu Shrine – One Shot Story
As it is customary in Japanese Shinto shrines, also the Heian Jingu in Kyoto has an area where bad luck is left hanging in the open. 御御籤 —o-mikuji—are small strips of paper t...
17 December, 2025
Kopitiam Command Centre – One Shot Story
Shot on Kodak Gold 200 film, on a Yashica 35 GSN. Disclosure, I did straighten the photo digitally, because of the life of me it appears I can’t take a straight photograph...
