Photography Philosophy Archives

31 December, 2025

The Technical Side of My Photography – A Reflection on How I Shoot

By Alexandre Kreisman

This post will be a mix of reflections on my technical approach, things I have observed while shooting. Let’s start at the beginning: Me! I tend to be a perfectionist. I s...

15 December, 2025

A New Take on “Take”

By Tom Warland

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the vocabulary we use in photography—specifically the words we reach for without even realising. Words like take, capture, and shoot. They’...

25 November, 2025

Do You Remember That Drunk Dance Thirteen Years Ago?

By Eagle Omomuro

I’ve always felt a kind of disgust toward the trend of full automation and burst shooting. I call it spray and pray. The camera sets the exposure, detects a smile, locks on an e...

16 November, 2025

On Prizes and Awards (a Long and Tiring Musing)

By Andrea Monti

Prizes and awards are ubiquitous also in the photography world. There is an award for everything, and I wouldn’t be suprised to discover an award for the best photo award ...

15 October, 2025

Was it to be my last ever click of a shutter?… With a Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7 50mm f2.8 Macro and Rollei Retro 80s.

By Ibraar Hussain

I took these, all from a roll of Rollei Retro 80s developed in Rodinal, back in 2017. It was a time when I was left with just one SLR; a Minolta Maxxum 7 and one lens – a ...

14 October, 2025

Saying Goodbye To Some Old Cameras

By Kary Schumpert

Recently, I dusted my cameras and almost got buried in a camera avalanche as some of the neck straps got tangled on the shelf. In the narrow escape, I noticed that some of the c...

5 October, 2025

Make Sense (or: Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder)

By Andrea Monti

I am a big fan of Jim Hall. A god of the Jazz Olympus, he was an amazing guitar player and played (i.e. lived) according to a simple but effective maxim: make musical sense. He ...

2 October, 2025

VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions

By Hamish Gill

I have for a while now been meaning to find a way to restart having chats with photographers I have become friends with through the website. I loved making the occasional videos...

Charles Young on Preserving your Photographs – My journey through Self-Publishing ‘BLACK and LIGHT’ books
I hope you treat yourself to a modern computer. Also backup SSD drives are quite reasonably priced.
Charles Young on Preserving your Photographs – My journey through Self-Publishing ‘BLACK and LIGHT’ books
Thanks for sharing your stunning photos and thanks for the tips on self-publishing.
Andrew Moore on Preserving your Photographs – My journey through Self-Publishing ‘BLACK and LIGHT’ books
Wow! A quarter-of-a-million images suggests decades of taking pictures; how come so few have apparently ever been printed?

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