4 September, 2025
Capturing Nova Scotia on Film
When I was 21, my parents moved from the hard-hitting, nickel-mining city of Sudbury, Ontario, to the quaint touristy town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. With little hesitation, I ...
3 September, 2025
‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta 9000 and Kentmere Pan 200
The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...
1 September, 2025
Portraits of Sabrina – An Exercise in Photographic Therapy
It’s 1125BC; King Locrinus is King of the Britons. His wife, Gwendolen had learned her husband’s infidelity, of the illegitimate daughter born of Germanic Princess Estrild...
The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...
26 August, 2025
Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop
Craftsmanship is fascinating. It’s almost magical how we can see things in our head and make them happen. This is true for every bit of wisdom that humans have come up wit...
24 August, 2025
A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll
If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes. I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive o...
24 August, 2025
Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v
Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...
20 August, 2025
Earth, Air, Fire and Water – in Sapporo
A two-day relaxing trip to Sapporo, Japan – at least as relaxing as 70,000 steps of photo-walks can be in 31°C. The title emerged from the images I happened to take rather than ...
