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Camera Stories Chapter 2: The Voigtländer Vitoret 110 and the Wannabe Secret Agent

March 11, 2024 - Being a child of the 1970s has its advantages, although now being in my fifties is not what I’d consider to be one of th...
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Camera Stories Chapter 1: The Halina 110 Auto-Flip - Where it all started

February 24, 2024 - While out on one of my regular walks around town recently, I bumped into an old colleague of mine from around 20 years a...
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Seeing is Believing? Ghostly Goings-on in Photography

October 12, 2023 - The scene is one of my favourite places to take photographs, the time is around 6.30 am, and I’m sitting on a moss-cover...
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Somehow a Vital Connection is Made

October 04, 2023 - “How long has it been?” asked my friend. The question was followed by some rapid calculations, after which we realised t...
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A Penny Drops from Height

September 18, 2023 - “What the hell is she doing?!”, I ask in a strained whisper which, if there had been more distance between us, would hav...
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More Eggs for Your Basket

August 24, 2023 - “Do you do anything other than swan about, drinking coffee?” These words, or a variation of them, have drifted across ma...
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Not Saying Cheese: When Collaborating Makes it Better

July 11, 2023 - “Well, I’m appalled at that”, I said as I sipped my mug of decaf. In the months since giving up all forms of caffeine, I...
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That Elusive Devil

June 26, 2023 - As I write this post, I am sitting in a deckchair, next to my campervan. We’re away for the weekend, so that I can conti...
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I Ain’t Afraid of No Change

May 06, 2023 - Afraid of change? Of course I am. Perhaps ‘afraid’ is the wrong word, but I am definitely a creature of habit who is app...
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The Need for Calm

February 17, 2023 - If you’re wondering why I’ve neglected this blog for a couple of weeks, the answer is that things have been fairly chaot...
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Artists Who Inspire Me: Philip-Lorca diCorcia

January 18, 2023 - Back in 2014, my wife and I found ourselves locked in a tumultuous period of change. We’d both left jobs at a company th...
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A Matter of Pressure and Time

December 12, 2022 - They say that inspiration comes from the most unusual of places, and how this post came about is no different. I had jus...
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Artists who Inspire Me: Ansel Adams

July 22, 2022 - It’s difficult to talk about famous photographers to people who aren’t all that interested in photography, as most of th...
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