Goodbye Dad
My dear dad passed away on 21st June, the longest day of the year. He was 87 and had been unwell for some time. I took this photograph at a…
2018
Gimme Shelter: Number 11
Windlestone Hall was the birthplace of the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who presided over the hugely significant Suez Crisis, which symbolised Great Britain’s end as major world power.…
Gimme Shelter: Number 10
This is near the site of the former Winterton Psychiatric Hospital and Sedgefield General Hospital, both long since closed and demolished.
The Number of the Beast
Well, I have developed another roll of Tri-X from the South Downs walk back in May. I am going through the negatives and scanning choice frames. Then I will be…
My Latest Article on 35mmc.com
Hamish over at 35mmc.com has published a piece I put together about the Nikon 1 V1, a fabulous looking classic, yet somewhat flawed digital camera. It’s called NIKON 1 V1…
Gimme Shelter: Number 9
The only photo I took with a digital camera during a fantastic camping weekend over the May bank holiday in glorious North Yorkshire
Surprise Supplies
One 4LR44 battery, a Fujica ST901 SLR, and a happy photographer. For my Edge of Town project (whose gallery I really must update), I have chosen to use Pentax screw…
Backlog
I have some films to develop. It would be wise if I developed these first before taking any more; or would it? It never stopped Garry Winogrand. He left behind…
Automatic for the People: Nikon TW Zoom
The second post in a series about ‘classic’ point and shoot auto focus film cameras I had no intention of buying an auto focus compact camera with a zoom lens.…
Some Thoughts on Photography
Photography widens your horizon by narrowing your field of view. Photography is comforting company when you are lonely, and glorious solitude when you want to be alone. It soothes you…