The blog

After 13 years as a local news staff photographer, with a healthy little freelance business on the side, I have now launched into the world of the full-time freelancer. This blog will document the highs and lows of my photographic way of life as I talk about work, cameras, lunch, and anything else that I encounter along the way to capturing that ‘decisive moment’. Watch out for posts on my personal projects as well,with pinhole cameras, photograms, infrared photography, and the wonders of 1950’s era cameras.

New paper and chemistry means my Ceramic Pinhole Camera is out of the box and exposing again.

Chems and Paper

My last Ceramic Pinhole Camera sessions ended in disappointment due to fogged paper and exhausted chemicals. You can read about […]

A 5 Frames With article written for www.35mmc.com
A waxing moon rises over two peaks on The Isle of Skye.
M4-P With Nokton 35mm f1.4 - and red dot.

Red Dot in the Post

So after a weird exchange with the good folks at Sunny16Podcast and Hamish from 35mmc.com I ended up with a […]

Split Log - Ceramic Pinhole Camera image.

Fighting The Fog

It’s been a while since my last post. The fogging issue runs deeper than I expected – I’m going to […]

A pinhole being measured this evening.

Ceramic Foggy Failure

I have had not much success with my Ceramic Pinhole Camera this week. I started off using paper that was […]

A tabletop studio set up to make paper negatives of a miniature cactus in my Hasselblad. View through the finder.

Paper Negatives

I got distracted from Project Ceramic Pinhole this week. For some reason I got a bee in my bonnet about […]

Cactus and skulls, a tabletop still life for my Ceramic Pinhole Camera.

Cactus And Skulls

I tried again with my Ceramic Pinhole Camera, but only under artificial lighting conditions. I tried to make an image […]

I made a pinhole lens to fit the Ceramic Pinhole Camera!

Pinholes R Us

After a short delay I managed to actually make a pinhole lens for my Project Ceramic Pinhole Camera. It seems […]