So the mystery holiday destination was Malta. We spent most of our time in Valetta, which provided by far the best atmosphere and shooting conditions. I highly recommend it if you’re into street photography and crusty architecture.
This trip was a leap of faith for a few reasons … Read more →
This is a picture of a film camera shot with a digital camera then processed to look like it was shot with film. The joys of modern post-production. Read more →
It took me weeks to shoot this roll of Portra, partly because I’ve been so busy and partly because London’s weather has been so foul and dark this past month that there hasn’t been a lot of opportunity for colour photography. It then took me another week and a half to get the film processed, as I don’t do my own colour chemistry. Read more →
I thought it was time I stopped making excuses and started posting pictures. These are from Auckland, New Zealand, taken with my girfriend’s D7000 after a night out. Let me know what you think. Read more →
I spent half an hour playing with the new Leica M today, with and without the viewfinder, using both the rangefinder and live view. Read more →
Further proof that Nikon is serious about its 1 system. This 32mm f1.2 lens was announced in January, but these are the first images to surface on the Nikon USA website. As you can see, it looks like a quality piece of glass with a nano crystal coat and what appears to be a manual focusing ring! (UPDATE: Not so sure about the latter – the other two Nikon 1 prime lenses have this design too, but it’s just moulded plastic and doesn’t actually do anything.) Read more →
Today was all about street shooting – I had my Leica, five rolls of Kodak Portra and a map plotting a route through East London’s best street art and markets. I almost made it out the door, too. Read more →
Been working since last Sunday and off to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona tomorrow, but I did manage to shoot a couple of rolls of Fuji Neopan 400 last Saturday and get them in the soup that evening. Read more →
If you’re a bag-whore like me, you’re always on the lookout for something better. I’ve been happy with my Think Tank combo for a while now – a Retrospective 5 shoulder bag for city shooting and the Streetwalker 20 backpack for the serious gear. Read more →
I had the good fortune to see this exhibition as part of a private function at the gallery, so it was less of an ordeal getting round the pictures than it can be at London’s big galleries.
Viewing the Taylor Wessing prize winners and exhibitors is a bit like reading the British Journal of Photography. You get the feeling there is a very small club running these things and that they have decided on a particular visual style which comes through year after year in the winners and the pictures they choose to exhibit as part of the show.
