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 nunn...
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 ...
It was early on in the morning so there was still some mist hanging over the fields and canal when I jumped from my boat onto the towpath and meandered my way to Tesco in town. ...
28 September, 2023
FOMA 100 Classic, and a Small Town in the Middle of Nowhere
Unless there is a manufacturing problem films do not have “faults”, they have “features”. So in the review below I shall mention some of the features...
24 August, 2023
Legoland Denmark – lines, dots and angles
I don’t remember seeing so many details in any of my photographs taken in the last 20+ yrs. Actually, I do not remember my eyes watering at the myriad of lines, angles, d...
18 June, 2023
5 Frames at Ontario Place with a Rolleiflex 2.8C
When I was growing up in Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s, there are two endeavours by the Province of Ontario that I distinctly remember. One was a new provincial song for Canada...
1 June, 2023
5 Frames with a Dacora Digna up Pen Y Fan
I like the idea of pinhole photography. Not sure why, maybe because it’s going back to the first pioneers of photography. After looking at various websites and posts I found ref...
