Nothing new to see here! Sometimes I like to just load up a roll of film, take the camera with me, wherever I’m going, and make a few photo’s here and there of what I like and catches my eye. This time I took with me my Spotmatic – I have two, the SP andContinue reading “A Photowalk”
Category Archives: Thought
Single Photo: Butterfly Past
Almost exactly 18 years ago I made the image above. It seems like a few months ago! For those who like the “chatter” it was at ISO 100 f5 at a 60th sec, with a Canon EOS 20D. Why I went on to spend literally thousands on not one but three successive full frame SLR’sContinue reading “Single Photo: Butterfly Past”
Goodbye WY Cameras
I was saddened to hear about a month ago that West Yorkshire Cameras is closing down. Over the years I’ve sold and brought many cameras with them. They were always fair on price, both buying and selling – and they did both with a sense of humour and style that I shall miss. Being fromContinue reading “Goodbye WY Cameras”
Merry Christmas!
This year in an attempt to reduce my carbon footprint, I’m sending very few actual cards. Apart from the waste involved in the card and envelope (and it’s packaging) there is also the delivering of it, either me “doing a route” and leaping in and out of the car, or the post office doing itContinue reading “Merry Christmas!”
Wonder of Walnuts
At the start of last week I did a very small favour for an older Ukrainian couple. After chatting with them for a few minutes I discovered that they had been in the UK for a couple of months and that they came from Odessa. To any film fan like me that means Potemkin StairsContinue reading “Wonder of Walnuts”
Single Shot… Yellow Rope
Made whilst out on a photo walk around Poole. I’ve photographed this more than once before! Below is from my recently failed out-of-date roll of Kodak Colour Plus that reminds me of a quote I remember but can’t remember who said it or where I read it! “Digital was the coming of age of colourContinue reading “Single Shot… Yellow Rope”
“The Night The Country Never Slept”
As I sit writing this a BBC film from 1984 has just finished a repeat on BBC Four. Nothing unusual so far. When I tell you that as far as I know it is it’s first repeat, (at least I’ve not known it to be shown since)* then the story deepens slightly. I sat andContinue reading ““The Night The Country Never Slept””
To Patreonise or Not?
I always fight shy of “joining” things, especially online. I’m not one of those to click the “join” button easily. I read many blogs with great regularity, all of those listed in my “blogs I read” page for example. It’s almost a daily ritual that I click through my list of favourites to see what’sContinue reading “To Patreonise or Not?”
An Exciting Development… Coming Soon!
Roger Fenton (1819-1869), English photographer, worked from his portable ‘Photographic Van‘ during the Crimean War. Well it may be his van, but sat on it, is his assistant Marcus Sparling…
A Black and White Birthday!
I’ve just had my 55th Birthday! It seems incredulous that I am that old, my birth certificate confirms it however! This year my loved ones gave me a “Black and White” Birthday!! Way back in 1990 I went to the cinema, it was a very common event. It was one of my “trips” up toContinue reading “A Black and White Birthday!”
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