Whitby (Retro Style)

Whitby (Retro Style)

Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s funny, in a way, how artistically and photographically I’ve come in a bit of a circle with the new Fuji Camera. I embraced my DSLR in a massive way about 20 years ago now, taking in all the technical abilities of the digital format. 

TT Artisan 7.5mm f/2.0 – Fisheye Fun

TT Artisan 7.5mm f/2.0 – Fisheye Fun

Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve always wanted a full frame fisheye lens, from when I was shooting like crazy with my DLSRs – I had an adapter than (not very effectively) turned the image into a circular (albeit cropped) fish eye, but this has never quite been my thing. 

Fuji XT-30iii Meanwood Walk

Fuji XT-30iii Meanwood Walk

Reading Time: 5 minutesI took the new camera out of a proper walk, to get a better understanding of what it can do – there’s so much to learn! While I am reasonably expert at Digital Photography any new device, and one that is different from what I 

Old Lenses Pt 1 – Helios 44/2

Old Lenses Pt 1 – Helios 44/2

Reading Time: 4 minutesI think that buying a new camera has reawakened a little bit of photography excitement in me again, as I’ve been feeling quite creative in that area the last few days. For no other reason than it suddenly came to me, I decided to buy 

New Camera!

New Camera!

Reading Time: 7 minutesLooking through this site, and indeed looking myself through my hard drives, it’s noticable how much less photopgraphy I have done over the last few years. For various reasons I have been walking less, I’ve also been painting more, and as I realised in Newcastle 

Newcastle, Rivers, Bridges and Sketches

Newcastle, Rivers, Bridges and Sketches

Reading Time: 8 minutesWe decided on a random trip to Newcastle for this spring’s random couple of days away, for no real reason other than having never been there. I have to say I was not sure what to make of Newcastle, and I’m still not – I 

Atkinson Grimshaw, Tetley, Nocturnes and Springtime

Atkinson Grimshaw, Tetley, Nocturnes and Springtime

Reading Time: 6 minutesLeeds Art Gallery has been hosting an exhibition – ‘Don’t Let’s Ask for the Moon…’: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw which I have been meaning to get to for some time, and finally managed this Easter Thursday gone, a rare day off work with nothing else 

Aire and Calder Navigation Revisited

Aire and Calder Navigation Revisited

Reading Time: 8 minutesAround 12 years ago, I started to develop, partly due to my photography, an interest in the industrial architecture of Leeds, and especially the canals of West Yorkshire, and after a couple of smaller walks round Holbeck and the upper parts of the Aire and 

Hebden, Todmorden and Wallace Seymour

Hebden, Todmorden and Wallace Seymour

Reading Time: 6 minutesFor something to do, this last week, we decided to go over the Hebden Bridge – the archetypal day out in West Yorkshire. Of course the climate-changed English Weather being what it is after a lovely hot Monday (which was actually quite beneficial to get 

Kendal Lane c.2008

Kendal Lane c.2008

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile I tend to wait until I am at least part way through a set or project, I thought I would put this up now. This is an idea I want to explore further, based on my Backstreets and Rooftops photographic project from some years 

Kings Cross, Industrial Redux

Kings Cross, Industrial Redux

Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been so busy this last few weeks, it’s taken a while to get the last of these up. Our last morning in London, we went to have a proper look around some of the new development of the Kings Cross area. After exploring 

When film goes Fubar – QB35 and Kodak Gold 100

When film goes Fubar – QB35 and Kodak Gold 100

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been flicking through some very old archives while backfilling some gaps in this site which got lost when transferring the structure at some point and came across these. These, from my notes, were taken using Kodak Gold 100 in a QB35 – this