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12 July, 2025
Ten (Temperate) Botanical Frames in Colour
Back in March 2024 I posted a piece about how great plants can look when photographed in black and white. Now this is despite the fact that I don’t embrace any particular ideolo...
12 July, 2025
A Birthday Weekend in Exeter, New Hampshire
For my birthday in 2024, Kate surprised me with a long desired pilgrimage to Exeter, New Hampshire. We went to see the iconic work of a great American architect (who wasn’t Fran...
11 July, 2025
Jumping from the Canopy – One Shot Story
Hidden deep on Mount Tsurugi on Shikoku Island, is the forest adventure park. It involves moving through obstacles while attached to a harness suspended roughly 30-40 feet above...
11 July, 2025
Leica Elmarit-M 90mm f2.8 and a History Photo Walk
The featured image shows the lens on my Sony A7Riii body. Technical details about the lens can be found here, and Hamish Gill wrote about it here. The lens followed the Tele-Elm...
10 July, 2025
5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.
The ruins of Raglan Castle dominate the landscape mid-way between Abergavenny and Monmouth in South Wales and will be familiar to anyone travelling the A40 between the towns. Th...
10 July, 2025
Tokyo Street Photography – A One Shot Story
First, an admission: I don’t get the term “street photography.” I’ve always assumed that’s what we did when we just called it photography. But I realize this is probably a gene...
9 July, 2025
One roll of film, two cameras
Like my last post this story begins with a purchase at a flea fair. I already had one Zeiss nettar, but was tempted by seeing what seemed a more modern one that took 6×6 pi...
Here we have the Konica Autorex; the only 35mm SLR that can switch mid-roll between full-frame and half-frame. It’s quite rare (only a handful in the UK) and I was able to...
