9 September, 2025
My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...
28 August, 2025
5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary
I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...
7 August, 2025
5 Frames at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Canada
Here in Hamilton, Canada we’re blessed with hundreds and hundreds of acres of preserved natural areas which are mostly managed by the Hamilton Conservation Authority. I’ve phot...
I have been a long time photographer who uses film. More recently, I’ve relied on Kodak Tri-X to create my dark, high-contrast portraits in the studio, sometimes at short notice...
I fell in love, instantly, the first time I saw an Aerochrome image, all those otherworldly colours! But the skin tones aren’t impacted? Absolute film magic! For me, it was the ...
29 July, 2025
5 Frames of New York City, 1987
Photography can be a time machine. 38 years ago I travelled the first time to New York, classic style with a Pan Am jumbo. With me came two F3s, a 24/2.8 and a 105/2.5, plus 10 ...
I’ve been experimenting with high resolution films of various kinds since returning to analogue photography and one of the more interesting products in this category is Kodak Te...
For those of us who have used a TLR camera, any invitation to use one again is a wonderful excuse to enjoy it. The mechanisms, the construction, the finish, the enormous waist-l...