There is a specific moment on a shoot that I never enjoyed. The light is doing something interesting and about to stop doing it, and instead of looking at the scene I am staring...
15 November, 2025
Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...
8 April, 2024
Pentax Q7 – A Black and White Holiday Workflow
I’ve really taken to the Pentax Q7, so much so that it was the only camera I used on a recent 4 day trip to The Gower Peninsula in South Wales. I also took a point and shoot fil...
30 December, 2021
Color Photography with the Leica M10 Monochrom – By John Ricard
I’ve been shooting for decades, but always in color. Converting these images to Black and White has held no interest to me over the years. I actually have a rather illogical lov...
27 July, 2021
Minolta Hi-Matic 7s and A Sentimental Journey Discovering True Optical Prints – by Shawn Granton
It was the first week of January 2020 and I was down for the count with a cold. "A perfect start to a new year", I thought to myself, not realizing what would be in store just a...
I never bought a new camera in my whole life. In my teens I started taking pictures with my father's old Agfa Silette. Three speeds, manual focusing, no light meter, but setting...
As someone who grew up in the era of the digital camera, I never thought of film photography as anything other than old and inferior. At twenty one years old, the only experienc...
3 February, 2020
Own Your Workflow and Goals (and don’t get too distracted by the mantras of others)
One of the wonderful things about photography is how broad it is as a pastime. The options are absolutely endless, from capture media, camera type, process to display. In fact, ...