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11 November, 2026
Gran Canaria on Kodak Portra 400
Gran Canaria is one of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the northwest coast of Africa. A popular holiday destination for Europeans, the ...
11 November, 2026
Winter Garden – My photograph of the year 2026
Responding to Hamish and David’s suggested repeat of last years event, I have had a trawl through my year’s output. Always an interesting exercise and useful self-criticism. I n...
I’ve chosen the 18th century Robert Van Rensselaer Mill in the Hudson Valley hamlet of Claverack as the subject of this first installment in an occasional series on large-...
10 November, 2026
Meet Miss Velzoe Brown
When I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to the little village of Felton, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, I was motivated to get into the jazz music scene. Bob Smith, a trumpet...
10 November, 2026
Meet me by the Steps – My 2026 Photo of the Year
There may be a feeling of déjà vu about this image as it was taken at the same place as my 2025 photo of the year, the steps by the Painted Hall in the Greenwich Naval College. ...
10 November, 2026
Why I Built Forma – Reimagining a 75-Year-Old Viewfinder
After more than a year of development, I’m excited to share Forma, a modular, multi-format optical viewfinder that can be tailored to your exact lenses and shooting format...
10 November, 2026
Leica ii D (1932) & Leica Summar 50mm f2 (1934 ) – NYC Street Shooting
In the waning days of Summer, 2026, I decided to take a flyer on an early Barnack Leica. I was intrigued by the history of the pioneering 35mm rangefinders, and perhaps attracte...
9 November, 2026
5 Frames with a faulty Petri 7 Half and Flic Film Apollo 18
The Petri 7 Half is a half-frame compact camera with zone focusing and the option of manual control at a fixed speed of 1/40sec, as measured by me, or automatic exposure using a...
