8 August, 2024
5 Frames with Ilford Ortho Plus
I’d been wanting to try some slower films and after a review decided to try some Ilford Ortho Plus. The opportunity to try it out came with a short trip to Somerset, so I ...
My journey into photography started when I was about 7 years old, in the early 80s, when I got a very simple Agfa Instamatic sensor camera (it took 126 film) as a gift from my a...
6 August, 2024
Agfa APX 400 pushed to 1600 – When Needs Must
During a business trip in Slovakia, deep and up in the Tatra mountains. The weather forecast was telling of upcoming bad weather, but as I am a mountain person myself, I was not...
6 August, 2024
5 Frames with a Fed-2 – New aspects, old subject
Following up our photo walk last year Tim Wainwright, Bob Janes and I met up at the end of May for another one. This time it was in Greenwich, familiar stomping ground for Bob a...
4 August, 2024
5 Frames of Iceland (on Portra 400 and HP5+)
I’ve been trying to write this for over seven months, yet I can still remember the trip quite vividly. In November 2023, my wife and I were planning a trip to Iceland after a ra...
3 August, 2024
A Few Musing on Theatre Photography
Over the years I have photographed a fair amount of theatre works – opera, concerts, prose – but I have never really analysed what was happening while I was shooting...
2 August, 2024
5 Frames Around the University of Minnesota
My first camera was a Minolta x-370. It was actually my mother’s camera. I shot that camera with reckless abandon from my teens well into my twenties. My eventual wife enc...
1 August, 2024
Ghost Town Photography in Colorado
Want to know a little bit about one of Colorado’s biggest mining towns in the mid 1800’s that is now a ghost town? On the outskirts of a casino town of Black Hawk, t...
