The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...
28 August, 2025
5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary
I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...
26 August, 2025
Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop
Craftsmanship is fascinating. It’s almost magical how we can see things in our head and make them happen. This is true for every bit of wisdom that humans have come up wit...
24 August, 2025
A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll
If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes. I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive o...
24 August, 2025
Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v
Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...
22 August, 2025
The Shape of Loneliness – One Shot Story
Taken in Boston, January 2011 with the Minolta 500mm f/8 reflex on my Alpha 9. At this focal length, even ordinary things become intriguing. It’s a perspective I don’t have with...
21 August, 2025
5 frames from my first roll of Kentmere 200
On the basis that with a new film it’s useful to see as many examples as possible, here are 5 frames from my first (half) roll of Kentmere 200. I put a roll in my Olympus ...
20 August, 2025
5 frames with my Minox 35GT
I first got interested in photography in around 1982, at the tender age of 15, saving my pocket money to buy a Zenit EM, and three years later, having started work, a Minolta X3...
