...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 2 minutesLaughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThat sounds slightly rude! One of my favourite cameras, the one I read about in some hipster rag and which set me off on all the Lomography nonsense is of course the Diana F+ I bought in Carnaby Street some years ago. I’ve taken a …
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of …
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in the glory days of film photography, there were all manner of cheap and cheerful fun cameras doing the rounds. One of the best of these has to have been waterproof cameras. Often you could pick these up as disposables but there were also …
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor all the fun of old and random cameras, it is great to play with a decent, high quality SLR from time to time. From my late aunt’s chattels I received, by gift of my father a good condition Canon T50 and a couple of …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Kodak Instamatic 76X is a vintage 126-format cartridge film camera introduced by Kodak Ltd. in the UK around 1977. It’s a 126, obviously, with a 43mm f/11 resin lens and a shutter speed of around 1/50s. Instamatics were so ubiquitous in the 70s and …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have been going back a bit to get some more ‘blog style posts onto this site (something I originally aimed to do) – inspired in part by managing to edit a good selection of film scans which have been hanging about for ages, and …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have visited Knaresborough quite a few times to walk, and shoot and entertain small children, but I had not visited it’s so called main attraction – Mother Shiptons Caves. As a bit of a summer treat we took the younger two out for the …
