Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand…
We generally define what's normal by what we do most often. Three years ago, for me a normal photowalk involved loading up one of my Contax film cameras plus an M42 lens with colour Fuji Superia 100 film, and photographing flowers, decaying doors and rusting gates. Today, normal is using a digital compact like my… Continue reading Defining A New Normal In Photography
Thank you all for your responses to my previous post about the kit and film I'm selling - in a day most of it has been snapped up (and at least one parcel has already arrived at its new home!) I still have left the Ricoh R1 film compact, the compact Samsung GX-1S DSLR (a… Continue reading Last Of The New Seekers (For Sale)
As regular readers will know, I’ve gradually purged my collection down from 50+ cameras and at least as many lenses a couple of years ago, to just a handful. After testing hundreds, those that remain are the very best of the best, in my view. Still, I have too many. So I've set up a… Continue reading Camera Kit Seeks Loving New Home…
The last time I used colour consistently was last summer with my Pentax K10D, approaching a year ago now. Since then, I've enjoyed an extended mono phase, partly because I just love the simplicity of black and white, and partly because I haven't really found a consistent way of making colour photographs I like. I've… Continue reading Unexpected Pleasures In Technicolour
There's something I find very comforting about a camera with a fixed lens. Though some might think of these cameras as too limiting because you're "stuck" with just one lens, for me the removal of another layer of decisions to make is refreshing. We've talked at length before about simplifying the photography practice by pursuing… Continue reading The Endless Allure Of The Interchangeable Lens
