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...
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...
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....
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’ve visited the Lakes District in northern England on two occasions. Twenty years ago I completed about half of the 190 mile Coast to Coast Trail which runs across north...
It’s still a little unbelievable, but my son was recently gifted an extensive collection of vintage high end still equipment that had been sitting in a friend’s basement for dec...
We are blessed here in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – once known as “The Steel City”. Blessed in terms of possessing nearly 4,400 hectares (10,900 acres) of land...
For an upcoming trip to Japan, I decided I wanted to travel fairly light (camera-wise!) using just my shoulder-bag. Whilst my backpack holds lots of gear, fishing out the camera...