14 December, 2025
Vintage Glass Plates – From Test to Print
While an analogue photography habit can help us avoid the relentless tide of technological progress, it would be delusional to suggest it helps us (or me at least), avoid Gear A...
15 November, 2025
Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...
19 October, 2025
Assignment of Exposures using Ansel Adams’ Zone System
The purpose of this post is to get the reader a full picture on The Zone System explaining step by step the way it works. Since most tutorials I have come across with were too s...
3 October, 2025
“Half Framing” Practically Any Film Camera (Part 1 of 2)
I love creativity of all kinds. But it has taken me down some strange rabbit holes (like here, here, here and here). This article is another. I hope you find it interesting and ...
17 August, 2025
It’s Time for the Soft-Focus Revival!
Try it! The most salient learning of my soft-focus foray was a greater awareness for light! With hindsight, that alone was worth it. But I enjoyed so much more in my journey fro...
14 July, 2025
Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax
(Title Photo – only one of two photos of the G2 unfortunately with me in it! Yuk! 2009) This will be my last post on a Contax G2 I used to have (last but one), and which I...
26 June, 2025
A Fun, Funky Filter for Shooting Digital Infrared
Are you interested in trying digital-infrared photography, but put off by the expensive glass filters that are apparently required? Hesitate no more. We can spare you THAT expen...
21 June, 2025
Stereoscopic Photography with a Rolleiflex
I thought I would wish everyone a very happy International Stereoscopic Day by introducing how to use a Rolleiflex camera to take stereoscopic (3-D) photographs. If you would li...
