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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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Camera Stories: An Introduction to Obsession
February 13, 2024 - It’s fair to say that photography is in my blood. My father and grandfather were both keen photographers, the former bec...
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The Only Choice I Made
February 08, 2024 - I know what you’re thinking: Where the hell have I been this past few months? Have I quit? Have I been ill? Am I dead, a...
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Prioritising the Shot: The Ethical Debate around Kevin Carter’s “The Struggling Girl”
November 04, 2023 - Something a little different this week. I thought I’d share an essay that I recently completed for my degree course, all...
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Check Your Bias at the Door
October 16, 2023 - As with previous projects for my course, I’ve chosen a challenging subject for this year. I’ve regularly been asked why...
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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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Kings of the Wild Frontier
September 08, 2023 - Is it just me, or is the world becoming an increasingly bizarre place these days? I deliberately use the word ‘bizarre’...
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Iconic Fatigue Syndrome
August 29, 2023 - “We did the exact same things when we were young”, I said. I’m sitting in a café with a friend of mine who I have known...
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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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Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should
August 01, 2023 - A few years ago, I received an official-looking letter in the post that accused me of committing a truly heinous crime,...
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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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Old's Cool, Apparently
July 04, 2023 - I was chatting with a friend of mine recently about a classic track from the 1990s that I was looking for on vinyl. He o...
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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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To 'shop or not to 'shop
March 23, 2023 - That is the question? Well, it’s certainly a question and not one about hitting the high street or eBay with my increasi...
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Let the light in, but not through there
March 15, 2023 - A few weeks ago, a friend and I visited an unusual location to take some photographs. In the village of Purton in Glouce...
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it...
March 07, 2023 - Picture the scene. You’re in total darkness, holding a thin, delicate strip of plastic in one hand and a small bobbin th...
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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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Looks Nothing Like You: Portraiture and the Selfie
January 04, 2023 - I was recently talking to a friend of mine about a job they were working on, when they told me a story that made us both...
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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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Thinking about overthinking
October 17, 2022 - “What the hell am I doing?”
That was the almost audible question that was spinning around in my head in the early hours...
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Leaving the brakes on: how creativity is held back
October 03, 2022 - I’ve just had some feedback on my latest degree assignment that has a familiar, and somewhat frustrating, familiarity to...
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Through the Squarish Window
September 15, 2022 - This year marks 10 years since London played host to the Olympic Games which, for me, was perhaps the most magical and u...
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Just Keep Swimming
August 24, 2022 - Last month, my wife and I left for a road trip to Austria in the camper. Ordinarily this would have been quite the adven...
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Artists Who Inspire Me: Julia Margaret Cameron
July 29, 2022 - Ask anyone to name five famous female photographers and you’ll invariably get a list that includes Dorothea Lange, Imoge...
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