Very inspiring. Shintoism/animism is important to me but so lost in our Scottish culture where gods of nature seem to have been shrunk to faery…
Roger Hyam
This is a really quick post about the new Stearman SP-810 developing tank because someone asked me my opinion. I must be one of the…
My first Salt Print (a la Fox Talbot). As usually I took the “bull at a gate” approach to something new. Google some Watch some…
It’s been a patching three months. Been on a work trip for a week, a retreat and been ill but when I can I’ve still…
I went to a lecture on The Walking Dead (a TV series about zombie apocalypse living) and photography at Stills by David Grinly last week.…
Three little questions everyone can answer How many flights have you taken in the last year? How many days in the last week have you…
Not much to say this month. Very crowded with the festival. Such a relief when the posters come down.
I made a disappointing ambrotype by pointing my half-plate, wet-plate camera out of the window. I was just doing a test shot to see how…
When you’re shopping for a large format lens one of the first things you want to know is what the coverage is. Will it cover…
If, like me, you spend too much time and money on old large format lenses you may be frustrated that the data that used to…
Breaking the 2,000 mile barrier. Lots of energy this month. First week on holiday in the Lake district.
From 1913 to 1935 the German company Voigtländer manufactured a midrange plate camera called the Avus. This was before the standardisation of sheet film holders…
There is no doubt that making wet plate collodion photographs is a faff. I can make an image with my phone in just a few…
Another two months down. I lost more than ten days to a retreat and a little illness in May. In June I was in Germany…
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens…
April was more like a ‘normal’ month. I’ve started to feel like I’m in the swing of it again and slowly sinking the well of…
It was nice to have my photos used in the Food Forever exhibition that has just opened at the botanics.
Three months to do one months worth of walking. What a start to the year! January walking didn’t start till 7th because of the way…
We don’t have a TV licence. We have Amazon Prime and Netflix and YouTube and hundreds of DVDs so just don’t watch BBC TV programming…
Oh great joy – I’ve spent ages researching this and at last I’ve made my first wet plate collodion image! I tried to do a…
I continuously wrestle with why the hell I want to make images. Sure a hell of a lot of it is a fascination with the…
Another year over. Time of reflectance and long sleeps. Resolutions for New Year are “all of the above”: diet, exercise, practice, etc, etc. I passed…
What has happened this month? I’ve started to Bullet Journal. Bought new camera bag and Hasselblads. Spending too much on camera gear but enjoying the…
This is an image of Scotland that I created as part of my job. The green is Normalised Difference Vegetation Index which is basically the difference…
I really must stop posting things on Facebook without posting them here first. I’ve reverted back to my “nothing on Facebook or Twitter that isn’t…
Scotland is a country. Countries choose their own governments. No countries are truly independent but choose to pool some sovereignty for mutual benefit. or Scotland is…
Another month already! Towards the end of the month I’ve been finding joy again in walking and in mundane things – the true test of…
A quiet month again. Lost a few days to my sinuses playing up. Had to get the bus back or work at home. There is…
Twelve years ago we moved into our flat in Edinburgh with our two daughters who were six and a four years old. We aren’t fussy…
I had a interesting exchange on the way to work. I was taking this picture of a window – just interested in the symmetry and…