This lockdown has resulted in me spending a lot of time wandering around with a camera to stay busy and sane. I'm sure many of you can relate.
When not tearing my hair out with...
8 August, 2020
Shooting Three Kinds of Redscale Film – by Tobias Eriksson
I recently found myself exposing three different redscale films almost in parallel. An Olympus Pen D2 was passing through my hands to be sold in my Etsy shop. I couldn't pass th...
5 August, 2020
Photographing Concerts in the 1970s & ’80s – By Dan Cuny
I bet you're thinking, "to write a post on photographing bands in the 1970s, this person must be pretty old". Well, I have to say that I am, and so happy to have grown up in an ...
The 1960s and '70s were good times for hobbyists in the USA. Chemicals, electronic parts, and optical supplies were widely available - in some ways more so than they are today. ...
A friend here in town is an experienced and very capable photographer with over five decades of experience. Early this year (2020), his wife emailed me wondering if I would like...
At the beginning of 2020, when the virus spread and reached the UK, it felt obvious for me to think of documenting the lockdown, not with videos or digital pictures — but with f...
In 2018, I decided I would once again use film exclusively in my personal projects. When I started with photography, there was only film, I grew up with a photographer father in...
I help as a guide in running members’ tours around the East Lancashire Railway, a large heritage railway based in Bury, near Manchester. These monthly tours are well attended. O...
