Photography Archives

25 April, 2023

5 Frames with a Fujica ST605n and Rollei Retro 400s

By Phil Shemmings

I bought my first SLR camera as a teenager back in 1981. I remember visiting the now long-gone Vic Odden's in London Bridge and coming home with a secondhand Fujica ST605n with ...

25 April, 2023

Age or Beauty? – 1: Modern Art Painted by Nature

By Geoff Chaplin

When I first went to Hokkaido I was taken to Shinzo Maeda’s gallery in Biei. I was impressed by his style and images and, like many other landscape photographers, I later went t...

23 April, 2023

5 Frames with the Spinner 360°

By Bob Janes

I've had a thing about panoramas for some time and have experimented with rotation points and stitching software quite a bit over the years. Analogue panoramas are something els...

20 April, 2023

5 Frames with an Olympus OM1, a roll of HP5 and a Bridge

By Tim Wainwright

I have a few film cameras that all mean something emotional to me (my Olympus XA2 I won in a photographic competition aged 12, my OM1 was my only camera for about 20 years until...

19 April, 2023

Confessions of a “Windmill Hog” (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Yes, I confess. I’m a “Windmill Hog.” I learned this sad truth when Kate and I took a tour of the Rhine and Mosel Rivers in August, ‎2005. One of our first stops was the windmil...

18 April, 2023

Heavens Above

By Geoff Chaplin

The City of London has many beautiful churches, and a few ruins. ‘The Friends of the City Churches’ is an architectural heritage charity helping to open the churches for visito...

16 April, 2023

5 Frames with the Kodak Retina 1a & Very Expired Ilford FP4

By Peter Kay

Word is, Folding Kodak Retinas are a lovely piece of kit, provided your winding mechanism isn't broken. I had a beautiful Retina iia with a dodgy winder. F2 Schneider lens, nice...

15 April, 2023

Drinking districts in Japan II – Nagasaki with a Leica iiig, 50mm Summitar and Portra 400

By Geoff Chaplin

My photography is about people but often without people – stories in objects and surroundings about their lives and lifestyles. Nagasaki (city) is a historically famous port. T...

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