28 May, 2025
The Anomalous Cemex Plant – A One-shot story
This post was inspired by a recent five frames post on the demise of an industrial feature – a giant concrete silo. The Cemex plant at 1000 La Brea Ave on the western border of ...
7 May, 2025
Camera Facade on Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
Originally the building was a camera shop – The Darkroom – at 5370 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles in the Miracle Mile. While the facade is now boarded up, it had previously been a...
29 April, 2025
Red Hook Grain Terminal – A One Shot Story
I was going through binders of negatives the other day and came upon this photo of the Red Hook Grain Terminal, a hulking landmark on an industrial stretch of the South Brooklyn...
3 January, 2025
One Shot Story: Behind the Fence
There is nothing special about this photo in itself, but when placed in context, it changes the way we may look at it. The photo was taken in the fishing neighbourhood of my hom...
13 December, 2024
Working Undercover – A one (or two) shot story
There were two remaining 5×4 sheets of Ilford Delta 100 left in a dark slide. The sun had finally emerged after weeks with heavily overcast skies. Working from the home off...
30 November, 2024
The Balkan Spomeniks – Monuments for a new tomorrow
When I first started collecting photobooks, one of my first was Spomenik by Jan Kempenaers. It wasn’t so much the photographs that drew me in, it was the brutal and futuristic s...
28 October, 2024
TLR Challenge: 2 – The Spirit in the Sky (A One Shot Story)
This is a bit of an aside from the general theme of the challenge – equipment, method and composition. Something that just appeared and deserves its own entry. We arrived ...
5 October, 2024
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Sometimes in life, we may be fortunate enough to stumble upon a place which delights the senses, quickens our imagination, and yet soothes the soul at the same time. One such a ...