In retrospect perhaps I tempted fate. This Jankuary road trip retraced the steps of a trip I made in the late 1980s to retrieve our Combi van that had broken down when my wife a...
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6 January, 2024
5 Frames with a Rollei 35 and Kodak Tri-X
Analogue photography certainly has its limitations when compared to what’s available with modern digital cameras. This however doesn’t have to stymie creativity or t...
20 December, 2023
5 Frames With a Trip 35 – A Brace of Olympi Pt. 2
Olympus compacts seemed to have been like London buses for a while round our way. No sooner had I caught the XA2 than it was closely followed by a Trip 35 at the same charity sh...
12 November, 2023
5 Frames of trains with an Olympus Pen FV
For many of us film photography comes with many advantages. The disconnect from the world digital technology. The enforced rituals and meditations. The total mental and physical...
31 August, 2023
5 frames with an Olympus Trip – Sell or Keep?
I didn’t own a car until I was in my mid twenties. In my late teens and early twenties, travel was all about motorcycles. At 17 an Olympus Trip 35 was my companion for on...
I took two vacations when I was young. I never recall being disappointed about it, but looking back with a lifetime of experience I realize it was the best my single mothe...
Following on from a recent posting by Tim Wainwright, we met up at Southwark’s Borough Market, along with another 35mmc contributor, Peter Roberts. The idea was to get to...
18 July, 2023
5 frames in Portland with an Olympus XA4 and Portra 400
We travelled to Oregon for a week in May. We were greeted by a heat wave in Portland after four chilly nights camping in Bend. I brought my trusty Olympus XA4, which is easy to ...
