Philosophy & Reflections Archives

14 July, 2025

Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax

By Ibraar Hussain

(Title Photo – only one of two photos of the G2 unfortunately with me in it! Yuk! 2009) This will be my last post on a Contax G2 I used to have (last but one), and which I...

13 July, 2025

Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI

By Andrea Monti

I was curious to see how an AI would handle a bad photo, so I uploaded this black-and-white shot taken in the area around Kyoto Station with my Nikon 35TI. The photo itself —the...

6 July, 2025

Why its important wander aimlessly with your film camera

By Vincent Botton

To begin with what may seem like a cliché: in today’s world, avoiding screens has become nearly impossible. Sitting in front of a laptop monitor, sketching on a tablet, with a p...

9 June, 2025

A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months

By Scott Ferguson

It’s been one year since I unexpectedly came into custody of a Hasselblad 500CM and a Leica M2. This opened up a whole new creative outlet for me and has become a very ab...

5 June, 2025

On Detachment. Or ‘If You Love Something, Set It Free’ (cit. Sting)

By Andrea Monti

A number of philosophies and religions preach the virtue of detachment from things as a path to enlightenment. When applied to gear, this advice won’t only save your soul ...

5 June, 2025

On Creativity – More Bad Photos, More Joy

By Lasse Andersen

Until a few years ago, I didn’t think of myself as a person with inner mental barriers. I didn’t believe I had restrictions in my thought process, nor did I think for one second...

29 May, 2025

On Tips’n Tricks to ‘take you photos to the next level’

By Andrea Monti

I recently asked a friend, who works on the editorial side of the music industry, to share his thoughts on one of my photographs taken during a flamenco concert. His response wa...

24 May, 2025

The Aesthetic Qualities of BW Film Images – by Marco Dughera

By Marco Dughera

Digital has set new standards of technical image quality difficult or impossible to achieve in the film era. But technical quality and aesthetic quality do not necessarily go ha...

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Geoff Chaplin on Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax
As always a brilliant set of images worthy of a book. The trucks and bus are similar to the ones…
David Hume on Confronting Nonsense – One Shot Story
Ah - OK, I checked out your website which explains the nature of your work, so it makes sense to…
David Hume on Confronting Nonsense – One Shot Story
Hi Eagle - thanks! It's intriguing... I'd be really interested to hear whether you took the picture with the idea…

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