Falling out of love with film . . .

A few years ago I would have told you I would continue shooting film for the rest of my life, that it was much better than digital in every way. Then, a few months ago I realised I hadn’t shot any film in at least 6 months. What had happened? I still love the look […]

The Nikon D3000

The Nikon D3000 was introduced in 2009 and has a 10.2 megapixel sensor, it has some shutter speeds and various modes – okay, I’m not exactly into the repetition of camera specs. If you want all the technical details then Google the camera, there are plenty of places listing all of them. Basically, it is […]

Film versus Digital versus Instant

I know, I know, there are a million posts about the benefits of Film or Digital and which is best, which makes you more hipster, which has ‘better’ image quality, and on and on and on and . . . yawn . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . . Yeah, me too. The answer to which […]

100!

So here’s my 100th post . . . and my first in a couple of years. Why restart now? I want to post for myself, a way to get my thoughts down and organised, a way to motivate myself, and a way to share ideas and thoughts. Will anyone be interested? I guess I will […]

Createspace and print editions.

Createspace. Amazon’s resource for creating, amongst other things, printed editions of books. Even as a fan of the Kindle for publishing I do have to admit to there being a certain thrill to holding a physical book in your hands. We all started reading with print so it speaks to something deep inside to have […]

Instant Photography

What is it about instant photography? Sure, there’s the instant gratification of having your image straightaway, but you get that with digital too. Is it the fact that it is a print rather than just an image on the screen, something physical and somehow more real? Maybe, all I really know for sure is that […]

Serials and collected editions.

Once a serial is finished how long should you wait before listing the collected version? Once the collected edition is up, how long should the serial episodes be up? Should they stay available forever, or be taken down? Honestly, I don’t know. The collected edition of my serial, New Dawns, probably went up way […]

When reality interferes with your writing.

As I have said before, I have gone for a complete change in career and I am currently in the middle of a year-long course learning to be an Early Years Teacher. This includes a lot of work at university and a lot of time in a placement at a nursery, along with family and other […]

Homemade Lenses!

As an obsessive amateur photographer I have a lot of old and broken camera equipment sitting around and doing nothing. I’ve already started using my old SLR lenses on my Samsung NX100 and I started to wonder if there was a way I could make use of the broken equipment, after all I do not […]

New use for old glass

You are on a budget so, much though you might love to, you can’t buy all the new lenses you’d like. Sure the new 24mm Sigma lens looks cool but you have enough bank loans already and one for a camera lens might just break you – what do you do? Simple, use old lenses. […]