Photography as an art form has been around since 1826 or 1827. Nicephore Niépce used heliography with a pewter plate coated in bitumen. The development process took around 8 hou...
The purpose of this article is to lay to rest my nagging question as to whether there’s any point in me shooting slide film for holiday snaps in 2025. Spoiler alert – my answer ...
I love teaching. Working with teenagers is rewarding work… and exhausting. I see around 160-180 students per semester. It is challenging work, but I get to share the thing I lov...
I’m sure every long-in-the-tooth parent knows this situation. And if you as a parent haven’t yet reached that certain age believe me you’ll experience it event...
At this stage, it happens fairly often: a conversation with a stranger that eventually leads to a photo. Sometimes I approach them, though often it’s the other way around....
Shooting film or digital is usually a what-am-I-in-the-mood-for kind of thing and when vacationing abroad, my usual impulse is to bring along a film camera. So a planned 2024 t...
For most of the past winter we lived under heavy cloud cover. At our northern latitude, clouds and winter make for dimly lit days. As a practitioner of the “sunny 16” system of ...
Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...