21 January, 2025
Heads or Tails? My Camera Choice for 2025
Having sketched out the reasons for my decision to commit to just one camera for the New Year in a previous post, I’ll now walk through the various contenders and reveal m...
21 January, 2025
A New Year’s Resolution: One Camera for 2025
For the New Year, I am plotting a significant shift in my approach to film photography. Rather than moving from camera to camera, pivoting from 35mm to medium format or even 4&#...
1 January, 2025
TLR under Grey Skies – A response to Geoff’s TLR challenge
For months after I got a Mamiya C220, I struggled with focusing. There were all sorts of possible explanations and I even visited an optician to discuss the issue in detail. Fin...
29 December, 2024
A Complicated Relationship With Colour Film
“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke I just ...
21 December, 2024
When The Burn Out Hits
When I finished university, I didn’t think burnout would hit me… how very wrong I was indeed. I was fortunate enough to attend a fantastic university, especially for the a...
16 December, 2024
Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)
What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, n...
13 December, 2024
Working Undercover – A one (or two) shot story
There were two remaining 5×4 sheets of Ilford Delta 100 left in a dark slide. The sun had finally emerged after weeks with heavily overcast skies. Working from the home off...
