Philosophy & Reflections Archives

16 December, 2024

Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

By Andrea Monti

What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, n...

3 December, 2024

New Horizons and Moving Back in Time

By Philip

Having shot purely digital for well over a decade, I find myself more and more drawn to the analog process and aesthetic of the film medium. This hankering for a more organic an...

18 November, 2024

Spectacular Vernacular. Memory and Legacy.

By Nik Stanbridge

The camera is a memory machine. And a legacy one. Photography is all about recording memories (or creating them) and building, whether you like it or not, a legacy. They, the me...

17 November, 2024

The Gigapixel Image

By Geoff Chaplin

I’d like to report an interesting (well, I thought so anyway) discussion that took place at my village camera club the other day. The topic was “How to Achieve a Gigapixel Image...

29 October, 2024

What does a perfect camera need?

By Nicholas Kurita Ikai

During the pandemic, I found a Canon Rebel T7 that my father had won through a miles program and never took it out of the box, and I started photographing to kill time. Naturall...

9 October, 2024

Hope in Creativity

By Hannah Gimblett

Ever since my initial encounter with a camera, when I was gifted my first one at age 6 from my dear Mum – it was clear that it sparked something inside me. As time passed,...

8 September, 2024

Kamera with a K – An ode to a love of Kamera: Shooting Seoul with a long missed Zeiss Ikon ZM

By Nigel Gardner

I love cameras and this is a little bit of a love story. I always have – ever since I picked up my older brothers much used Halina 35X and put a roll of Tudor – a UK...

4 September, 2024

When Kitsch Becomes Collectible

By Dave Powell

I just experienced huge culture shock about that thing up there. During the 1980s and early ‘90s, I was a computer-networking journalist and editor for publications like Minicom...

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Gary Smith on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
That shot of the B-17 just proves that you take great photographs no matter what you have in hand! Despite…
Bob Janes on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
Thank you. That day at Duxford there was a row of nine or more Morgans of various ages all lined…
Jim Palmer on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
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