I seem to have been taking photographs of the muddy puddles and flooded fields where I walk the dog for ever. She’s over 12 so I’ve seen a lot of seasons, a lot of...
4 April, 2024
Leica M3 and Portra 400 at 6000 Feet (1828 meters)
Since retiring in 2015, I have been seriously pursuing photography, digital for the most part. About a year or so ago, I resurrected an old film camera from the 1980s, a Konica ...
25 February, 2024
5 Frames with a Leica M3 & Ilford HP5 pushed to 3200
I’ve been wanting to work on my low-light film shooting skills for awhile. I’d already tried shooting some Ilford HP5 pushed to 1600 at our family Thanksgiving cel...
22 February, 2024
Surviving two Leica fails on a motoring trip down to the Balkans
Assuming you’ve planned for it, retirement brings together newly freed up time, resources and a degree of freedom (and maybe a bit of adveturousness) to do what you want....
7 December, 2023
Film Ferrania P30 in Finland with a Leica M3
“Five Frames of Film Ferrania in Finland” would have been a good title for this post, but I wanted to share a few more than five. “Five Frames of Film Ferrania...
28 November, 2023
5 Frames of the Granite Coast on Delta 100 in Rodinal
On a trip last year around the coast of France and along the Spanish foothills of the Pyrenees, I wanted to take along some film that had a slightly different character to my us...
27 August, 2023
Drinking Districts in Japan VI: Sapporo, and a Gruesome Start
I checked in to a decent hotel on the south side of the city and went out for a recce, walking north through the love hotel district, then “Soapland” – whic...
Yurakucho is an area and station name, close to Tokyo station, between the expensive Ginza shopping area, the Imperial Palace, and the Marunouchi office, financial and shopping ...