There’s something magical about Yaowarat Road once the sun goes down. Neon signs flicker to life, food stalls send smoke curling into the night, hungry tourists sample exotic di...
6 November, 2025
Kodak Tri-X 400 or Ilford HP5+ 400 who? when? where?
There were several options for black and white films back in the day. There has been a period a few years ago when suddenly the options were limited and the films sometimes hard...
29 October, 2025
A Nostalgic Race and a Suburban Shopping Centre with Kodak Tri-X
As promised in my previous analogue articles, “Analogue Photography – A Personal Journey Part 1 and Part 2”, I’ve started shooting with film again and will be sharing the result...
16 October, 2025
Cinevilla in Black and White: Shooting the Nikon FE2, 28mm f/2.8 AIS, and Kodak 400TX in Latvia’s open-air film studio
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...
8 October, 2025
5 Frames from a mental health day
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...
24 September, 2025
Reflections on an Impromptu Photo Shoot
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...
30 March, 2025
5 Frames Hiking the Lake District
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...