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1 March, 2024
Festivity of the Goat and “Canhoto”
The village of Cidões has just 20 inhabitants. It’s located in Trás-os-Montes, in the northern inland of Portugal. Every year, on the Saturday after 31 October, the villag...
1 March, 2024
Soligor 35mm f/3.5 – A Cheap and Cheerful Softie
I bought this from Real Camera because I wanted a wider-than-50mm lens for my Praktica SLR, not having any idea who Soligor are/were (and still not much the wiser). It was cheap...
29 February, 2024
(森林浴) Shinrin-Yoku or Forest Bathing Might Be the Best Thing for You and Your Photography
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to...
29 February, 2024
That Time I Built an X-Pro1/Monitor-Six-20 “FrankenFuji”
In my days before 35mmc, Jim Gray published this article on his great “Down the Road” site. It described how and why I adapted a 1940’s Kodak Monitor Six-20 le...
28 February, 2024
Defining Environmental Automotive Portraiture
Like any photographer, I can see reoccurring themes in my work. Thoughts or ideas that I go back to, again and again, in order to re-explore or develop further. One of the most ...
28 February, 2024
Canon EOS A2 – An Odd Little GAS Journey.
Why an odd GAS journey? I am glad that I imagined you asked. I recently wrote a post on my blog about me finally caving in and getting a Vintage Digital (Disclaimer: “Vint...
27 February, 2024
Terrorists in the Swat Valley – A One Shot Story
It was 2007 and I was standing on the rooftop balcony looking over the rural fields and hills of the Northern Punjab, where I was with my hero aka my late Father. “DadR...
27 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Voigtländer Vito CLR
A few months ago, whilst meandering through some local markets in Germany, I came across a table full of old cameras in various states of disrepair. Being addicted to film camer...
