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The EASTERN PANHANDLE
March 17, 2024
Recently while on a job in Washington DC I had a rare free day from work. I decided to hire a car and use the time to get out of the city and off the beaten track with my camera. Leaving early on a Sunday morning I headed through Maryland toward the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia… Read More
ALONE IN COLOGNE
January 14, 2024
Last week I was in Cologne for work, each day was busy with my only free time, the night… Read More
The Boat Yard
September 10, 2023
In the shadow of several huge cooling towers you can find a boat yard. Spread out over fields, scattered wide and packed close, boats propped on stands in various states of repair… Read More
Panorama - Shooting the Hasselblad XPan
July 8, 2023
Recently I borrowed my friend and fellow photographer Ben Lockett’s precious Hasselblad XPan… Read More
LE PORTE DI SAN LORENZO
February 17, 2023
I just love it when I stumble on something that in my mind’s eye is simply photographic, when I just know and it’s exciting… Read More
A Decade Passed
December 28, 2022
For me, taking a portrait is often about capturing a moment in time and life. Ten years ago while celebrating Christmas at my fathers home I wandered into his little workshop… Read More
Eight Years
October 8, 2022
In my previous post, I mentioned "It has been almost a year since I have written here" well something even longer than that is me using a digital camera for personal photography. I’ve looked back and the last time I did was 2014… Read More
16km in Paris
September 13, 2022
When I travel for work I always take a camera with me because you never know when a meeting might finish early or a schedule might allow some time to walk and discover something photographic... Read More
WELCOME BACK
July 16, 2022
Wow! It has been almost a year since I have written here. Last Roll was never meant to be literal, but a whole year since posting, what's going on?… Read More
ARTISTIC IMPRESSION
July 20, 2021
A series of portraits of Natasha Bush in her South London art studio…Read More
Shooting Kodak Vision 3
Part II - 500T Review
September 20, 2020
Earlier this year I shot some Kodak Vision 3 250D and like many photographers, I was excited to see some motion picture movie sparkle in my stills photos. I liked it enough to try some of Kodak's Vision 3 500T… Read More
Confessions of a Film Developer
August 29, 2020
Okay, so when things go wrong the best thing to do is chalk it up to experience and make sure you don't do it again. In the real world this is sometimes easier said than done, fortunately when developing film at home it's a bit more straightforward… Read More
Déesse, a life long thing
August 2, 2020
As a child in the early 70s, most summers, my family and I would set off on an epic road trip. Early in the morning, we would squeeze into an overpacked car, with its headlamps painted translucent yellow and an oval GB sticker on the boot, we head for Dover… Read More
Shooting Kodak Vision 3
250D REVIEW
April 22, 2020
I've wanted to try shooting movie stock for some time, I mean who wouldn't want a bit of Hollywood sparkle in their work? So, with a roll of Kodak Vision 3 250D loaded in the back of my CONTAX RTS III ready to test, Skylar and I went down to the shed to shot some… Read More
Anticipation
December 9, 2019
Rarely have I anticipated the outcome of a photo such as this one. Anticipation is one of the pleasures of shooting film. Spotting a potential subject composing and seeing it in a viewfinder, capturing it and then... the time in-between… Read More
CROSS PROCESSING FUJI PROVIA 400
November 4, 2019
Earlier this year I shot a roll of expired Fuji Sensia 100 and cross processed it in C41 chemistry. The results certainly inspired me enough to want to experiment more with cross processing. This time I had a roll of expired Fuji Provia 400… Read More
A CONFESSION
August, 2019
Meeting up with Steve for this portrait shoot had a particular poignancy, as it is not very often that a close friend is about to be portrayed by a Hollywood star in a prime time British TV drama. Written by BAFTA award-winning writer Jeff Pope, A Confession stars Martin Freeman as D.S. Steve Fulcher and details the 2011 police investigation of 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan's disappearance after a night out in Swindon… Read More
STOKE-ON-TRENT
July 17, 2019
A roll of expired Fuji Neopan 400 shot in Longton, Staffordshire… See More
CROSS PROCESSING FUJI SENSIA 100
April 9, 2019
I'm not the most experimental photographer by which I mean experimenting with film, you know, things like bleach bypassing. Souping film by soaking it in various liquids like tea, wine or even urine before shooting it. Developing negatives with coffee or beer… Read More
KINGS CROSS
March 29, 2019
Portrait series shot on Kodak Portra 800 and Kodak TMAX 400 with CONTAX S2… See more
OUT OF SEASON
January 24, 2019
Winter in a costal town, shot on Fuji Pro 400H and Kodak TMAX400… See More
KODAK PRO IMAGE 100 A PORTRAIT REVIEW
October 20, 2018
Over coffee, at the Photographers Gallery in London, my friend Matt delved deep into his camera bag and passed a roll of Kodak's Pro Image 100 across the table. 'Here try this, I think you'll like it'. he said. Pro Image is not a new film it was released in 1997 but it is new to the European market and to me… Read More
Ferrania P30 Alpha - Feeling a Bit Fellini
Part II
June 28, 2018
In September I shot my first roll of Ferrania’s new P30 Alpha black and white film. I developed this first roll using Tetenal’s Paranol S a developer that I was using at the time. Since then I have changed chemistry to Kodak’s TMAX developer and so for this second roll of P30… Read More
Revisit - Returning to Thamesmead
February 17, 2018
As a photographer, I’m always looking for new subjects to photograph. Sometimes though returning to a previous location can be just as rewarding. Revisiting a place will never result in replicating an earlier experience, things will always be different. Light, time, season and weather are near impossible to duplicate… Read More
ALTON ESTATE, ROEHAMPTON
December 10, 2017
Kodak TMAX 400 and Kodak Portra 400 shot with Hasselblad 500c/m… See More
FEELING A BIT FELLINI
September 20, 2017
In 1963 Federico Fellini shot his famous film 8½. Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale it is still considered to be one of the greatest Italian films of all time. 8½ was shot in black and white using Ferrania P30 film stock. The look that P30 gave 8½ created a demand so high that Ferrania produced both 35mm and 120 versions so that non-professional still photographers could ‘feel a bit Fellini’. It was a huge success.… Read More
The Pergola Portraits
June 28, 2017
Great to see some photos from my recent shot with Talie Eigeland taken at Hampstead's Hill Gardens and Pergola on Photo/Foto Magazine. Check out their site, there are over 150 folios and interviews from talented photographers all around the world.… See More
Residence on Kloosterstraat
April 8, 2017
The net curtains and blinds draped heavy in the windows of lower floor apartments, like fabric guards protecting the privacy of the residences on Kloosterstraat… Read More
Wassalon Antwerp
April 7, 2017
Portrait series shot on Kodak Portra 800 with Hasselblad 500c/m… See More
Cropredy Bridge
November 22, 2016
This short series of photos was taken at Cropredy Bridge Cars based in rural Oxfordshire. Since 1972 Cropredy Bridge have specialised in the restoration of classic Jensen cars, in particular, the famous Interceptor.… Read More
Autumn Portraits
25 October, 2016
Portrait series shot on Kodak TMAX400 and Kodak Portra 400 with Hasselblad 500c/m… See More
Expired 1987 - Kodak Varicolor III
A Trace of Soft Toe
July 27, 2016
A couple of years ago I wrote about shooting a roll of 21-year-old expired Fuji Velvia 50. A friend had given me a couple of rolls that had expired in 1993 and I used one somewhat unconventionally for a series of portraits. I'm not much of a photographic experimenter but I do enjoy using expired film. Last month I was given a bag of various long expired films from a photographer who had converted to digital in the early 2000s… Read More
Tripod… It’s a Monopod
May 21, 2016
On a recent family day out we visited Hampton Court Palace the famed Tudor residence of King Henry VIII. Sited on the River Thames at Hampton some 11 miles from central London this 500-year-old royal palace remains one of the largest Tudor buildings in England. I don't usually take a camera on outings like these, beautiful palaces and castles don't whet my photographic appetite… Read More
Laundrette Semblance
April 17, 2016
Portrait series shot on Fuji Pro 400H and Ilford HP5+ 400 with Hasselblad 500c/m… See More
The Frobisher Portraits
March 10, 2016
Portrait series shot on Fuji Pro 400H and Kodak TMAX 400 with Hasselblad 500c/m… See More
Thamesmead
February 13, 2016
A couple of weekends back I met up with fellow photographer Andy Feltham for a wander around one of London’s largest 1960's housing estates, Thamesmead. I'm still trying to understand what attracts me as a photographer to this type of brutalist architecture. The buildings are often formed in geometric modular blocks linked together by skywalks and surrounded by parklands or in the case of Thamesmead, a large lake… Read More
So High In Soho
January 24, 2016
Wearing 140mm heels in always a vertiginous challenge. Finding your feet, your balance and your poise for a portrait is an even higher ask. So there we were, Tom and I, in London’s drizzling Soho watching the orange glow of raven black taxi lights bleed onto the patent wet cobbles; hunting out the acid neon light I am so addicted to for my portrait… Read More
SAGRADA FAMÍLIA
September 6, 2015
The moment I entered the beautiful interior of Barcelona's Sagrada Família I wanted to capture the ethereal light that threaded through the vaults 50 meters above my head. I shot half a roll of film in what stands as one of the world's most creative and unique churches. Designed by architect Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926) the unfinished basilica is rightly a UNESCO World Heritage site and a symbol of the Catalan capital… See More
GETTING MY HANDS WET
January 21, 2015
Just before Christmas I temporarily swapped cameras with my friend, he now has my square format Hasselblad 500c/m and I have taken in to care his beast of a Mamiya RZ67. I love to borrow and swap cameras, it's a chance to experience a different machine, feel and see what can be produced and well just try something else… Read More
REDUX
October 11, 2014
Two years ago my sister had a summer party, there wasn't much parking space outside her small cottage and what space there was taken up by a magnificent Buick Wildcat, all 18' of it! I lost no time finding the owner amongst the guests. Andy seemed quite unperturbed by my desire to photograph his car… Read More
ILLUMINATING
August 29, 2014
20:30 on a late July evening, two photos only moments apart. Mary sat with her back to the setting sun; the numbers on the meter weren’t great! There was just enough light for one shot, before a compulsory move to the other side of the table… Read More
ASSEMBLY
August 19, 2014
With a roll of Ilford FP4+ 125 loaded in the CONTAX S2 and Zeiss Planar T* ƒ1.7 50mm mounted, I shot this short series with Sky. They were all taken in natural window light. I've never been much of an Ilford user, but I have to say that this film greatly impressed me especially as it expired in 2005!.. See More
EXPIRED 1993
July 14, 2014
A while ago my friend gave me her late father's old cameras and lenses. In the camera bag pocket were two rolls of expired Fuji Velvia 50. The boxes were covered in mildew. However, Fuji sealed their Velvia in thick foil wrappers and so even though they were 21 years out of date and been stored in the loft space above a garage, through many hot summers and cold winters, I figured it was worth shooting just to see what I got.… Read More
FIRST CONTACT
July 5, 2014
Noel has been developing and printing his own work for over forty years and so as well as knowing a thing or two about photography he is an excellent teacher. I've been spending a bit of time in his darkroom and… Read More
BULLITT
June 24, 2014
Another test roll from the Flexaret VII, this beautiful Czechoslovakian TLR made by Meopta between 1966 - 1970, is an impressively solid machine. It's Belar ƒ3.5 80mm lens is really sharp and has a max 1/500 Pentacon Prestor shutter. Around the lens is a toothed ring, that locks the shutter speed and aperture together for EV type exposure… Read More
DOWN IN A TUBE STATION...
May 31, 2014
A series of photos taken in and around the Elephant and Castle tube station and for me, inspired by Paul Weller’s Down in a Tube Station at Midnight. It was the second single taken from the album All Mod Cons by British band The Jam released in 1978… Read More
MERCADO DE LA CEBADA
30 May, 2014
For me, walking around this indoor marketplace was a wonder. It felt as though the stalls were clinging for their commercial lives. Most of the viable traders were centred on the ground floor, closest to the street for convenient access; they still provide excellent meat, fresh fish, fruit & vegetables… Read More
QUO VADIS, BABY?
19 April, 2014
Portrait series shot on Kodak Portra 400 and Fuji Neopan 400 with Hasselblad 500c/m… See More
URBAN MAZE
14 April, 2014
Like vital arteries, these access and service passages exist in every town and city. For me, they are a sort of backstage, an opposite to the often sparkling and gleaming front of house that they serve… Read More
DREAMLAND
27 March, 2014
The area around All Saints Avenue with its brutalist 1960s tower Arlington House and its former seaside amusement park Dreamland offered a fascinating vision of how times change. The whole area patiently awaits renewal and so these images offer only a transient glimpse into their story… See More
