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5 July, 2025
Kentmere and I – Musings on recent film choices
Firstly the cover shot. Having picked up on a comment recently, the cover shot was also on film. A Voigtlander Vito B and a roll of Kodak Gold that had just come out of two othe...
4 July, 2025
5 Dyptichs with an Olympus Pen EF
For your consideration, an Olympus Pen EF. Released in 1981 this little camera makes me happy, let me tell you about its best qualities! The Pen EF has a nice little 28mm lens. ...
Specifically the Leitz 50mm f3.5 and the 135mm f4, both LTM and both are late coated versions. Tony Warren recently wrote an excellent review of the 90mm Elmar should you wish t...
3 July, 2025
Meet Me Mum – One Shot Story
Of course, my mother isn’t a rubber frog! But this one may have been her second message to our family when she died. (More about the first one later.) It did not surprise us tha...
3 July, 2025
Sunday morning with the Industar 61 in a Fuji XT-1
Walking through São Paulo with a camera is always a mix of some surprises and great urban scenery. In downtown and its surroundings, this microcosm of a city with about 20 milli...
2 July, 2025
Pêche sur l’herbe – A one shot story
I had this bright idea for a Five Frames piece based around a return to a childhood stomping ground The place I had in mind is a 240 acre area of greenery that forms an as yet u...
“In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield” — Douglas MacArthur I always wanted to be a war correspond...
1 July, 2025
Music in Manhattan – A One Shot Story
I was walking up Fifth Ave heading to a student film festival at the Paris Theater when a string quartet of young musicians caught my eye. My Leica M3 was loaded with a roll of ...
