16 May, 2024
Park Life with a Ihagee Exa 1A
At a brisk walk, the local park is about 4 minutes from the front door of the house. That helps with the need to escape. A job once enjoyable, has become so entangled in a growi...
14 May, 2024
5 Frames inspired by Georges de la Tour
It was the 13th of March. In my inbox was the daily news in French email and it began by saying on that day in 1593 the painter Georges de la Tour was born, and he became famous...
5 May, 2024
Évora, Portugal with a Leica MP & Foma 100
Not only photogenic, historic and interesting (a UNESCO world heritage site, European Capital of Culture for 2027), Évora also has a superb hotel in a converted former nunnery a...
30 April, 2024
5 frames with Fomachrom D II 20
Most photographers today know Foma from their black and white film but there was a time when the Czech company produced colour as well. The exact information about it is scant b...
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...
18 February, 2024
A Wet and Misty Thames Walk with a Leica iiig and 50mm Summar
A walk with a Leica iiig from the late 1960s (recently restored by PPP cameras) and Summar lens from the 1930s, at first finishing off a Silvermax roll then Fomapan 100 and RPX ...
11 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Yashica 35 Rangefinder
Six months ago I left Florida and moved to Vietnam as something of an economic refugee. I’m a science teacher and staying in Florida increasingly meant subsistence living and th...
14 November, 2023
5 Frames with Foma Fomapan Retro 200 Black and White, Pentax 645N and FA 75mm f/2.8
I will start with something about Foma Fomapan Retro 200 Black & White that I said in a blog post about another film. What is that you say? Lower price and acceptable result...