8 October, 2025
5 Frames from a mental health day
I love teaching. Working with teenagers is rewarding work… and exhausting. I see around 160-180 students per semester. It is challenging work, but I get to share the thing I lov...
27 September, 2025
Crosby’s Blitz Beach with a Yashica D and Kodak Gold 200 – The Whole Roll
I’m sure every long-in-the-tooth parent knows this situation. And if you as a parent haven’t yet reached that certain age believe me you’ll experience it event...
24 September, 2025
Reflections on an Impromptu Photo Shoot
At this stage, it happens fairly often: a conversation with a stranger that eventually leads to a photo. Sometimes I approach them, though often it’s the other way around....
15 September, 2025
5 Frames to Overcome My Fear of Flying (With Film)
Shooting film or digital is usually a what-am-I-in-the-mood-for kind of thing and when vacationing abroad, my usual impulse is to bring along a film camera. So a planned 2024 t...
12 September, 2025
Lines in the Sky
For most of the past winter we lived under heavy cloud cover. At our northern latitude, clouds and winter make for dimly lit days. As a practitioner of the “sunny 16” system of ...
11 September, 2025
5 Frames on the River Severn with a Rolleiflex 2.8C
Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...
9 September, 2025
My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...
28 August, 2025
5 Frames with a Praktica L – Nothing more than necessary
I’m all about purity of form and function, and I love a good brutalist design aesthetic. So when I discovered that there was a whole line of cheap and ugly-beautiful SLRs ...