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 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 · 26 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.
2024 · 26 July 2024
A day out at the local Raptor Sanctuary courtesy of OM System and London Camera Exchange. Owls, hawks and falcons in all their splendid glory, beautiful creatures and the descendants of the dinosaurs alive and well and flying around us.The raptors!
2024 · 20 July 2024
Another day when, yet again, it was too darned hot and humid to be comfortable for photography and so I grabbed two quick snaps and retreated to the cool of indoors.
2024 · 10 July 2024
Railwayana; Items concerning or associated with railways. Origins: 1960s; from railway + -ana.
2024 · 01 July 2024
Went for a brief sojourn in the beautiful countryside of the Meon Valley in Hampshire land managed by happenstance to choose the few days of the mini-heat wave we had during that week. Just my luck as it was just too darned hot to wander about for any length of time taking photos.