15 August, 2024
Bilbao in November rain (A One-Shot Story)
We flew from Munich to Bilbao in mid-November 2022. Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, not far from the French border and located on the Atlantic Ocean. The city is known for i...
15 August, 2024
Shooting Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA)-like Events
Historical reenactments are everywhere, and the volunteers who keep alive the memory of our past deserve our highest praise. Along with pure re-enactments, where the fate of the...
14 August, 2024
How Hercule Poirot Helped Me to Find a 6×6, or is the Voigländer Perkeo the Moka Pot of Cameras – A One Shot Story
My wife is an ardent fan of Hercule Poirot stories. Especially the TV-series kind, starred by Sir David Suchet. Some time ago she was wondering, whether the Poirot series could ...
14 August, 2024
5 Frames in Old San Juan On a Mamiya 6 with Fujichrome
Since getting back into film, photography has become a focal point of my travels, even when it’s simply to document the mundane. Unlike the bottomless nature of digital photogra...
13 August, 2024
Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story
After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...
I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...
10 August, 2024
5 Frames Going Square with 35mm Film in a Minolta 24 Rapid
So you like square format but you don’t want to pay the price for medium format or bear the weight and prefer the convenience of 135. And if you can barely get through 36 frames...
9 August, 2024
An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story
The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...
