I was always looking for a way to earn money on the side with something I love and escape the suffering of nursing. When Corona pushed things to the limit in 2020, I started tak...
4 May, 2023
The Case for Always Taking Your Camera
In all of the photography advice I have ever received, the most common is to always bring your camera. You never know when you might come across something that you want to aim y...
4 May, 2023
The Case for Not Always Taking Your Camera
Okay, it might be blasphemy to write this for a photography website. The other night, on a beautiful spring evening, I took Jupiter the dog for a little walk before dinner. I wa...
29 April, 2023
Nost•Algia and Film Simulations in Digital Photography
This is not intended to be a technical text, or even a tutorial. The web is full of writings on the technique of analogue film simulation, or guides on how to apply it to your o...
22 April, 2023
The Collection – An Accumulation of Film Canisters
I posted on the Facebook/Darkroom group some pictures of my old film canister collection that I’ve been accumulating on and off then on again for over forty years now. Those pix...
20 April, 2023
Making Flash Work for my Photography
I do not like flash photography. I do not enjoy the feeling of light cutting through the darkness directly towards whomever or whatever I am photographing.
However, sometimes t...
1 April, 2023
Economies of Film
After seeing some online discussions about the price of film rising I thought I'd revisit and follow up on a piece of writing I previously wrote about darkroom prints, and how I...
Memories are weird. Some fly out of one's head and into oblivion as quickly as they form. Some stay longer, but frequently morph with the years. Others remain burned-in for a li...
