11 November, 2025
A Portrait on Velvia 50
I never shot Fujichrome Velvia for portraits, except, apparently, when I did. I have absolutely no recollection of making some frames I found in a box labelled “1998. Blue Banan...
11 November, 2025
Nikonos IV-a for Documentary Photography
Sometimes I need to work on a story or story-elements that don’t occur in optimal conditions, whether that means light or access or other conditions. Weather doesn’t...
6 November, 2025
Lockdown 2025
We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the even...
5 November, 2025
Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan
Part 1 — Pushing One Stop in Santa Monica I took a quick trip to Los Angeles in late September and it was the first time I’ve visited the West Coast since taking up ...
5 November, 2025
Original, Freewill, Artificial
When you are reading this article on an electronic device, I am sure you are living in a society with some degree of modern civilisation. So let’s look at everything around you ...
2 November, 2025
My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer
I have always been a documentary photographer, just not a paid one. That all changed in 2010, I was commissioned by a man called John Casson whom I had met at a dinner party I w...
31 October, 2025
A Haunted House for Halloween!
This was the most haunted place I ever lived. And the most vicious. You wouldn’t recognize it today, though. It’s now surrounded by trees. And across three-quarters of a century...
30 October, 2025
5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.
It sometimes seems as though every sunset has already been photographed. Most often, the image is of a landscape in the “golden hour,” a favourite of postcard pictures. Epic ski...
