6 May, 2025
Uncle Jack’s Last Shots
There’s something a bit poignant about looking at some images and realizing they were the last photographs ever taken by a person who had an enthusiasm for photography most of t...
22 April, 2025
Somewhere in Mongolia
Last year whilst visiting Mongolia we travelled to Baganuur, once a Soviet Army base, now an abandoned relic of a different age. The base itself is worthy of a separate post at ...
Recently, I stumbled upon a collection of old slides from the 1980s, depicting a fascinating African journey. Although the individuals captured in these images are unknown to me...
9 December, 2024
5 Frames with an Olympus 35 SP
For an upcoming trip to Japan, I decided I wanted to travel fairly light (camera-wise!) using just my shoulder-bag. Whilst my backpack holds lots of gear, fishing out the camera...
17 November, 2024
One Man’s Journey in Seven Photos
This is a story of one man’s journey in seven photographs. It was actually meant to be a discussion about the superb resolving power of lenses and emulsions in the very early 20...
12 September, 2024
Negatives from the Original 1888 Kodak Camera
I’ve been digitizing negatives for over 15 years and collecting them for almost 40. I have never seen any of the original Kodak camera negatives, so when I recently looked...
20 August, 2024
Discovering some Photos Taken by my Grandfather with his Leica
In June 1952, my maternal grandparents embarked on a life-changing move Graz, Austria, from their home since WWII, to New York City. My grandmother, six months pregnant with my ...
24 March, 2024
Historical Records in Family Photographs
I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy Lund, m...
