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...
18 May, 2024
Looking Back at my First Roll of Film
It was June 2015, the first month of Melbourne’s winter, and I had tired of digital photography. I had bought an entry level Nikon DSLR in January of 2015 as a move up from the ...