What to do in Wales when the sun don’t shine.

Went to North Wales last week with the family, for a break away from it all.  Fortunately the weather wasnt hot enough for the beach so i was able to get out with my cameras and i just couldn't help but do a bit of street photography and still life. These are the results. Hope …

Summer in the City 2

More images from my walk around Chester a few weeks ago. Please feel free to comment or subscribe.

Should photography be perfect ?

I recently processed a roll of black and white film for the first time in 20 years. I completely messed up. I over-exposed the film by a lot and developed the film in chemical that was too warm. The result was a roll of mainly unuseable film with four exposures that seemed ok. On closer …

Confession…I really messed up the exposures

I love film, always did. That soft quality it brought, the patience it instilled and the skills it taught. It has been almost twenty years since i last shot a roll of film and even longer since i last developed my own. Back in the day i was pretty good at home processing. I could …

Summer in the City – part 1

Took the opportunity of doing some street pictures in the UK city of Chester. Typically as well as shooting the images i also bought a used Olympus Trip 35 from a camera shop. So these are some of my pictures after two hours in the sun on a Thursday morning in August. I hope you …

Excitement and some disappointment at my first roll of black and white film

I got my first roll of black and white film back from the lab a number of days ago.  This is the roll i shot with a newly aqcuired, used, Minolta Dynax 4. Basically just test shots allowing me to get to know the camera and re-introducing me to working with film after many many …

Street photography in Kiev 3

A few more street shots from the Ukraine