2024 · 31 December 2030

📌📌 PRE-AMBLE: This journal contains the scribbles of a walkabout photographer with a snapshot style. This pinned entry provides an introduction to the journal and also explains all the different ways you can access it to make it easier to find things, so click in to learn more. Alternatively simply scroll through the entries below and have fun exploring their content.

2024 · 05 February 2024

Fans of Kodak Ultra Max 400 Everyday film on the web have declared it as having "Vivid & accurate colour, wide exposure latitude, smooth skin tones, natural hues, fine grain, and bright blues, greens & reds" and say it is, "Perfect for all kinds of photography; from portraits to action to scenics. I have a very different view.

2024 · 29 January 2024

Bleak, dreary day, with a biting wind across the wetlands. Most of the birds had moved out, only the very few hardiest remained. Just one lone photographer in sight; me, just plain dumb I guess. Still a beautiful place though, even in the gloom of mid-winter.

2024 · 26 January 2024

We were sequestered in The Thomas Lord pub in West Meon having a spot of lunch and reading its history and how it was named after the founder of Lords Cricket Ground back in 1814. It was only later that afternoon whilst taking photos in St John's Church graveyard we discovered his other connection with the village.

2023 · 13 March 2023

Jouissance: noun: physical or intellectual pleasure or delight. For instance that engendered by engaging in the art of making photographs, of capturing moments, the time spent behind the camera.

2023 · 11 March 2023

Precision engineered, clad in titanium, this high end machine was the ultimate 35mm electronic rangefinder camera, the superb Contax G2 with its set of six super quality Zeiss prime lenses was the best practical, quality 35mm film rangefinder outfit you could buy.