Sunny 16 podcast does this thing where you get a cheap camera and every now and again they ask for submissions for a challenge. This time I entered. I wanted to challenge perceptions, take a look at the role of groceries in society, make comment on the wastefulness of our modern lives. Actually I had... Continue Reading →

I said I wanted to do more pinhole work, so I am. I also said I wanted to practice using HP5, so I am. I also mentioned something about trying out caffenol. So I am. I decided to head up to the moors while my car was being serviced, and had a roll of HP5... Continue Reading →

I have talked a lot about my pinhole work on the podcast, and this year I completed a camera build that I am calling the Strangefinder. I keep saying how I want to do more pinhole work since I enjoy it so much, so I did. The strangefinder is a 6x7 pinhole camera that has... Continue Reading →

A couple of years ago I received the Fotospeed salt printing kit as a christmas gift from my parents. I was extremely happy with this, as I had wanted to try salt printing for a long time. I was quickly dissappointed. Not with the kit, it's a fabulous kit, but with the quality of the... Continue Reading →

A long time ago, when I started learning film photography, one camera kept popping up in my reading. A cheap plastic camera made in the far flung reaches of the 1980's orient, designed to give you distorted and surreal images. I had to have one. I love distortion, one of the main reasons I wanted... Continue Reading →

How can photography go so right some days and so wrong on others. Needless to say all this was down to my error and stupidity. As per usual. I build cameras. I love building cameras, sometimes more than taking pictures with those cameras. Now I love pinhole photography, and love building pinhole cameras. I also... Continue Reading →

A new camera, always a good place to start for some creativity. I bought my zeiss Ikon Nettar a year ago and enjoyed using it on my trip to Scotland. However there were issues with it that I am unable to fix, issues that make the overall images...not nice. So when I saw an Agfa... Continue Reading →

Back in ye old days when I would go tramping around the moors withy olympus DSLR, I would select my ISO based on the scene and what I needed from it. Great. Nowadays I choose my film based on a number of factors, and ISO is one of them. Even though I rarely shoot at... Continue Reading →

Where to start. I started my large format journey ages ago, and decided to take the homemade 4x5 beastie to scotland for the first time. Despite my experiences in series 1, I was still a little unsure of how to use it. Also, I had made some modifications to the focussing mechanism, so had a... Continue Reading →

Picture the scene. There I am, visiting a second hand market in my home town. I am looking for cameras, of course, but I don't expect to see any. In the wild world of film photography, marketstall holders and charity shop managers are wising up to the value of some of these old cameras and... Continue Reading →