24 April, 2024
5 frames with a Minolta 700si
In a recent post, Julian Tanase urged us to think about “stepping back” in photography, using simpler cameras to make us think more about what we are doing. This pos...
24 April, 2024
5 Frames with an Intrepid 4×5 – Famous For Quality.
“Started in 1903 by Albert Scott and James Bathgate, the company [Nutty Club] became famous for products like pink popcorn, pearled peanuts and dozens of other products includin...
I managed to grab a few rolls of the very first batch of Ferrania’s brand new P33 film, so I wasted no time in putting it to work with a Nikon F3 and the glorious Nikkor 5...
20 April, 2024
Cascais, Portugal, by Day and Night
We went to Cascais in part in reaction to having been to Lisbon recently. As a Portuguese acquaintance said to us “Lisbon is no longer Portuguese”, it is now packed with tourist...
My journey in photography started as an attempt to take photographs that I would have personal connection with, that could be used to remember a time or share my perspective on ...
In the run up to a recent holiday I had a sudden unshakeable desire to shoot my Nikon 85mm lens on my Pentax Q7. If you aren’t already aware, the Pentax Q7 has a fairly tiny sen...
14 April, 2024
5 frames with Kodak Shellburst 346 – the UFO film
In my previous article about a roll of 40-years expired Kodacolor II, I stated that one of the main reasons for my interest in expired film is the fun of trying to get usable pi...
13 April, 2024
A Custom Tailored Shirt
Style wasn’t always my thing, and spending a lot of money on a custom-tailored shirt wasn’t something I’d always wanted to do but in this case it was inevitabl...
