This is the second part of my article, Analogue Photography – A Personal Journey. If you haven’t read the first part yet, I recommend doing so — it provides useful background, h...
29 July, 2025
5 Frames of New York City, 1987
Photography can be a time machine. 38 years ago I travelled the first time to New York, classic style with a Pan Am jumbo. With me came two F3s, a 24/2.8 and a 105/2.5, plus 10 ...
18 July, 2025
Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time
With the growing interest in analogue photography, as Bastian so inspiringly explores in his Analogue Adventures, I too have decided to create a series of film-related articles....
3 May, 2025
On Grief and Capturing Memories
Photographs are the closest thing we have to permanent memories. Alternatively, photographs capture a the details of light that can’t change due to age, context or existen...
31 October, 2024
In a Haunted Antiques Shop – One-Shot Story
For several years, Kate and I rented booth space in a New England antiques shop that turned out to be very haunted. A delightful British woman (whom I’ll call “Mrs. P”) had purc...
3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...
12 August, 2024
The Camera that Launched my Career… and Nearly Devastated me.
I’m talking about the EXA 1-A, my first ‘grown-up’ camera. Don’t confuse this model with classic Exacta cameras with leaf or focal plane shutters. The Exa has no real shutter. T...