Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
Back when I was predominantly shooting film, I was very conscious of the real cost of every frame. I'm not going to get into the minutiae of the numbers (yet), but even at its cheapest, every photowalk would end up costing me double figures (pounds). So of course with a tangible cost per shot, it… Continue reading How I Stopped Thinking About The Cost Of Film Photography
From about 2012-2017 I predominantly shot 35mm film. Over this time I had the film developed and scanned, uploaded the digital images to my archive, and tucked the original negatives away in a couple of large shoeboxes. Two shoeboxes that I haven't returned to since I shot my last roll of film three and a… Continue reading Should I Just Throw Those Old Film Negatives Away?
This is the latest post in an occasional series called These Three Photographs, where I look back at three photographs I've made around a similar theme or subject. You can see previous posts in the series here. This time around, bicycles. Generally, bicycles are symbols of great freedom and self-reliance to me. Far more than… Continue reading These Three Photographs – Bicycles
My photography, I thought, had largely evolved over time to inky, contrasty, b/w shots, usually close up, and fairly minimal in composition. Nine years on from buying my first "proper" camera, a Nikon Coolpix P300, after a few years of Sony camera phones, I was pleased with where I'd reached. But then I went back… Continue reading When You Don’t Realise How Right You Got It The First Time
Over the last 15 years I've been photographing with intention, my photographic output has had its ebbs and flows, without any obvious patterns. But it's become clear that in the last three months or so, I've definitely made fewer photographers than in some time, and probably in years. Now this isn't something I'm concerned about,… Continue reading When Photography Falls
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