28 February, 2026
Hokkaido, a historical perspective
This article brings together the history and development of Hokkaido together with some of the images I have taken over the last 20 years or so. Early Days Hokkaido is the secon...
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26 February, 2026
Divided Development – An Introduction
Divided development is the use of two baths – “A” contains ‘developer’ and “B” contains an ‘accelerator’ – to develop film. This has benefits and drawbac...
17 January, 2026
Amsterdam, with RULES and a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm lens
The game was to use my digital camera (Sony A7Riii) as if it was a film camera so I set myself the following rules for our nearly four day trip to Haarlem and Amsterdam. A maxim...
15 January, 2026
Europe’s second city, with a Yashica Mat 124G
We took the train for the 36 minute journey – a day trip would have been easy but we wanted to spend a few days away enjoying the food and local attractions. It was a pleasant 1...
6 December, 2025
Osaka with a Leica iiig and Summitar
After a three hour drive and a two hour flight I needed a drink – I say ‘a’ euphemistically: beer, nihonshu (“sake”), red wine and whisky hit the spot but set the tone for the f...
30 November, 2025
5 Frames with a Leica iiig, Summitar and FP4+ at 400asa
I have written about the Leica iiig in the context of other Leicas here. Briefly summarising these are the key differences compared to the M3 for me: Advantages Smaller and ligh...
21 November, 2025
Life and Death in London – My photo of the year 2025
This hasn’t been easy and I thank David, Scott and Hamish for setting me the (actually enjoyable) task. It turned out my favourite fell just outside the last 12 months (I’m taki...
6 November, 2025
Lockdown 2025
We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the even...