I love a “Full Roll Friday” and I’ve done four of them in the past. But only one of mine was a full roll shot the conventional way – usually I’d find a way of cheati...
17 July, 2025
Still, Like Yesterday – One Shot Story
My wife and I were seen as the lucky ones when we settled in Tasmania. We called it the great escape. Imagine this: fewer than six hundred thousand people living on a land of si...
16 July, 2025
Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story
Doesn’t every photographer hope to find an undiscovered niche? Something still un-tapped? I may have just: In what I dub “Potty Pareidolia”! Specifically, clean toilet paper tha...
The sewer museum in Brussels is entered through one of the former tax collection buildings at the Porte d’Anderlecht (left in the featured image) and exited through the building...
14 July, 2025
Confronting Nonsense – One Shot Story
Somewhere near the heart of a no man’s land on the Tibetan Plateau, China. The place is called Lenghu, which means Cold Lake. It was cold. Even in June, under a blinding sun, I ...
14 July, 2025
Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax
(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
The Winter Heart of the Tatras
The Tatras are the highest peaks of the Carpathians, and I wouldn’t hesitate to call them the national treasure of Slovakia—though a small part stretches gracefully into Poland....
12 July, 2025
Ten (Temperate) Botanical Frames in Colour
Back in March 2024 I posted a piece about how great plants can look when photographed in black and white. Now this is despite the fact that I don’t embrace any particular ideolo...
