The writer’s block is a real thing – even more so when you are not a writer. But this “not-a-writer” writer had to make a choice about the desire to share his photographic...
So there was this guy who took it upon himself to hike from the Atlantic Ocean all the way down to the Mediterranean, following the Pyrenean long-distance mountain trail, all of...
There’s something quietly addictive about panoramic film photography. The way it stretches time and space across a single frame feels very different from shooting standard forma...
26 March, 2026
Xpan on the Cheap
Some recent articles on 35mmc and elsewhere brought to my attention the marvels of the Hasselblad Xpan, also sold as the Fujifilm TX-1. It can expose a frame of 65 x 24mm on 35m...
5 January, 2026
Fujifilm TX-1 – Nine Years in – Both Eyes Open
This is a near-full rewrite of an article that was originally shared on Casual Photophile in August 2024. In addition to tweaking some content, I also wanted to correct a techni...
So despite having a number of cameras (all film) – three Leica rangefinders (don’t judge!), a Leica SLR, bought for a specific purpose, which I don’t use any more an...
2 August, 2025
Widelux in the Wine Country
For a recent family vacation to Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country, I opted for a single camera and lens: the Widelux F7. This swing-lens panoramic camera, fam...
21 November, 2024
The Wider View – learning to create panoramic images
Over the last few years my photography has definitely moved away from landscape to urban subjects. Of course, restrictions due to the pandemic were the catalyst for this shift ...