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 · 04 October 2024
I like photographing trees, through the stages of their lives and through the turning of the seasons. To us humans they are powerful symbols of growth, death and rebirth as well as eternity, immortality and fertility. They are glorious things and good for our sense of well being.
2024 · 25 September 2024
Twenty four years on, I still love my Contax G2 electronic rangefinder 35mm film camera outfit. With a body and lenses wrapped in titanium, a clever combination electronic rangefinder plus an exceptional set of Zeiss prime lenses, the G2 system has not been equalled in all the long years since its introduction. It remains peerless.
2024 · 18 September 2024
Turns out one of my favourite lenses to use with my F80 film camera has become my 85mm f1.8. This so called portrait or short telephoto lens seems to fit with my "minds eye" vision which often tends to mentally crop out the near foreground of a scene to focus in on a subject.
2024 · 11 September 2024
I loathe post processing, adjusting settings, moving sliders back and forth, masking, zooming in and out, spending endless hours editing and previewing images in front of a computer screen is a huge pain. It is one contributing factor as to why I don't use digital much and continue to use mostly film for my photography.
2024 · 04 September 2024
Views in the garden; wandering about snapping a few photos in harsh sunlight using 35mm film with a high dynamic range, CineStill 400D. Great fun.
2024 · 01 September 2024
On a bright though cloudy day I visited box hill the summit of the North Downs in Surrey, approximately 19 miles south-west of London, the western part of which is owned and managed by the National Trust. Within their parkland there are a number of spectacular viewpoints, the highest being Betchworth Clump though that from Salomons Memorial, overlooking the town of Dorking, is the most popular.
2024 · 24 August 2024
Late last year I became a Nikon owner having acquired a lovely old F80 film camera and a small set of fast AF primes to go with it. Having done some initial testing with it I have not had much chance to use it since then. I decided that the time was now ripe to deploy it as my main walkabout camera for a while to really test its mettle.
2024 · 15 August 2024
Personally, shooting film is all about the joy of being out there lost in the moment of it, in the process of making real photographs, in the touch and the feel of the medium, in the thoughtful connection with my subject that it brings. It is just a very different and contemplative experience.
2024 · 28 July 2024
One bright, sunny Sunday with The Watercress Line running a two steam locomotive service plus one diesel shunter making for a fab steam enthusiasts day out with some decent train snapping opportunities as ever as well.