10 April, 2025
5 Frames on the Golf Course
The lighting was just right on this Sunday afternoon in January so I decided to take a photo walk through a nearby golf course. In January, in southern Ontario Canada, the sun i...
27 March, 2025
A night by the banyan with Nikon FM2 and Tollygrunge Noir
It was late in the evening and I was starting to get restless, which is not unusual when I seem to have nothing to do. Then I figured out that I actually had something to do, wh...
6 July, 2024
5 frames with Nikon FM2 and Kodak Gold 200
What could be better than taking a light, mechanically precise and legendary camera on a beautiful autumn hike in the Bavarian mountains? Driving in a cabriolet in the sunshine ...
18 June, 2024
Melbourne 1996 – A One Shot Story by David Hume
I came across this photo yesterday while looking for something else. I immediately remembered the circumstances of taking it. In the 1990s I used to exhibit my artworks in Melbo...
10 June, 2024
5 frames with a Nikon FM2 & Kentmere 400 pushed to 3200
I am definitively a newcomer when it comes to film photography. Apart from a few rolls taken with point-and-shoot cameras as a child, I was shooting only digital until I picked ...
28 August, 2023
Nikon FM2 Review – Its significance and modern appeal since 1984
I was hired once to take some portraits of a young woman. I asked her to give me a few portrait examples that she liked. To my surprise, she said that she liked “The Afghan Girl...
28 December, 2022
Nikon FM2 Camera Review – Joy in Simplicity – By Ted Ayre
Like many millennials I grew up in the 90’s with family point-and-shoots, quickly watching them disappear for digital compacts in the 00’s, and then those being ditched for the ...
During one of the longish weekends late 2019, we made an impromptu drive down to Santa Barbara. The plan was to rest the night, and then drive onwards to Oxnard to reach the Cha...