27 October, 2026
5 Frames From Images in Hiding
I have bought some lots of mixed cameras and photo bits recently from a local auction house, two of the cameras turned out to be carrying antique part-used 120 films, and anothe...
1 November, 2025
Mount Cook and the Glaciers, 1893
In February 1893 George Moodie set off from Dunedin, a city on the south east coast of New Zealand, to Mount Cook. He was on a photographic trip on behalf of the Burton Brothers...
31 October, 2025
A Haunted House for Halloween!
This was the most haunted place I ever lived. And the most vicious. You wouldn’t recognize it today, though. It’s now surrounded by trees. And across three-quarters of a century...
6 May, 2025
Uncle Jack’s Last Shots
There’s something a bit poignant about looking at some images and realizing they were the last photographs ever taken by a person who had an enthusiasm for photography most of t...
22 April, 2025
Somewhere in Mongolia
Last year whilst visiting Mongolia we travelled to Baganuur, once a Soviet Army base, now an abandoned relic of a different age. The base itself is worthy of a separate post at ...
1 February, 2025
Imago Absentia – A Portrait of the Absent
To photographers, the word portraiture conjures up an image of a human subject posing for a photograph. But what if the person is no longer with us and cannot be photographed? W...
Recently, I stumbled upon a collection of old slides from the 1980s, depicting a fascinating African journey. Although the individuals captured in these images are unknown to me...
17 November, 2024
One Man’s Journey in Seven Photos
This is a story of one man’s journey in seven photographs. It was actually meant to be a discussion about the superb resolving power of lenses and emulsions in the very early 20...