27 February, 2024
Terrorists in the Swat Valley – A One Shot Story
It was 2007 and I was standing on the rooftop balcony looking over the rural fields and hills of the Northern Punjab, where I was with my hero aka my late Father. “DadR...
22 February, 2024
Surviving two Leica fails on a motoring trip down to the Balkans
Assuming you’ve planned for it, retirement brings together newly freed up time, resources and a degree of freedom (and maybe a bit of adveturousness) to do what you want. Or hav...
6 February, 2024
Drinking Districts in Japan VII: Obihiro
We went to Obihiro primarily to eat – the food seems so much better than the area where we live – and also to see a friend; unexpectedly I came back with a large present – a Pen...
31 January, 2024
Traveling. Light? 4 days, 4 Cameras
My wife’s cousin invited us to her wedding at an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I figured this might be a good opportunity for some fun photography, so I start...
11 January, 2024
The End of the Line
Imagine a land where snow and ice cover the ground for five months of the year, where summers are short and cool, weather unpredictable, high winds and very heavy rain not infre...
4 January, 2024
6 rolls, 6 days, 600km, one misplaced drop of oil: Nikon FM on the Second City Divide
The plan: six days off-road. Last summer I set off with my friend Aidan to cycle the Second City Divide. This is a roughly 600km bikepacking route linking Glasgow and Manchester...
9 December, 2023
Where is the Heidelberg? – with Canonet GIII QL17 and Fomapan 400
I did not know where the city of Heidelberg was until I reached there. I knew it was somewhere. As I was growing up, I read a poem by Allama Iqbal that he had written on the ban...
21 November, 2023
Saving my vacation photos from a faulty development
For a decade I have been itching to again visit Paris. Francophone popular culture has been a part of my life since childhood originating in the French and Belgian comics I rapt...