3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...
28 August, 2024
Burning the midnight oil with Ilford HP5 at 1600 ASA
Last time I have attended a night concert was back in August 2000, Bon Jovi playing at the old Wembley Arena. Great times, really great; but as with all good times, that concert...
27 August, 2024
A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras
My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinated with...
21 August, 2024
Flaybrick Memorial Gardens
Originally from Liverpool I moved to Birkenhead in 1982. It took me 33 years before I discovered the charm of Flaybrick. It began when I came across a photograph of an angel on ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
