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...
16 February, 2025
Shooting Leica Ms and a Hasselblad 500 CM in the Canadian Rockies
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...
22 January, 2025
5 Frames on a Foggy Day in the Dundas Valley
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...
9 December, 2024
5 Frames with an Olympus 35 SP
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...
19 November, 2024
5 Frames of Kodak Tri-X @3200
Chances are, if you’re into film photography, you’ve at least heard the terms ‘pushing’ and ‘pulling’ film. In a nutshell, pushing or pulling...