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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 02 April 2024
There is an old saw about there being three types of people in the world, "the Wills, the Won'ts and the Can'ts", which is equally applicable to each of us in the photog domain...
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.
2024 · 01 January 2024
With the decision to do mostly 35mm film photography this year using my Nikon F80 outfit came the realisation that most of my other extensive collection of digital gear was about to sit around unused. What to do?
2023 · 18 December 2023
Having recently sat down and reset my photographic goals and direction, the medium I wished to use to achieve them and essentially the camera I would use to do so, it was now opportune to think about optics.
2023 · 10 December 2023
There is an old saying that goes, “Buying a Nikon does not make you a photographer, it simply makes you a Nikon owner”. Well after all these years I have finally become a Nikon owner!