I have an admission to make. My last post featured a portrait photo that I’d taken where I’d actually missed focus on the face. This happened on both the portrait photos I’d taken on the trip, so I had no “good” one to feature, which was a little frustrating. As the focus was only slightly […]
Read more "Recovering Out of Focus Portraits with Remini and Snapseed"Last weekend I took a winter walk on the “Tolkien Trail“, a 10km circular route starting in the Lancashire village of Hurst Green. Apparently this part of the world helped inspire J.R.R. Tolkien’s vision of Middle Earth, so I was excited to see what interesting landscapes would stretch out before me. Accompanying me on my […]
Read more "Pentax ME-F on the Tolkien Trail"The first full week of January saw a gentle dusting of snow descend on Manchester, with the waterways around my new home in New Islington freezing over. The marina and surrounding canals were one of the big reasons I decided to move to this area, having been brought up on the coast in Weymouth I […]
Read more "Capturing Manchester’s Frozen Canals: A Mini Pentax 17 Adventure"I had a bit of a dilemma deciding which camera to take on my little jaunt to Berlin last month – my Pentax 17 or my Pentax ME-F, so I did what everyone does in 2025, I asked ChatGPT. To my great surprise, it didn’t just list the pros and cons of both cameras, it […]
Read more "Pentax ME-F vs. Pentax 17: My Camera Choice in Berlin"I started my half-frame adventures with the Kodak Ektar H35N early last year, getting a bit of a taste for the economical format with a lightweight take-anywhere camera. Just months later the photography world was surprised by the release of the Pentax 17, the company’s first film camera in decades, and it just happened to […]
Read more "Springtime with the Pentax 17"In my last post I talked about my experiences of using the Kodak Ektar H35N “toy” half-frame camera for the first time. Since then, for most of the Spring and Summer of this year, I have had the camera loaded with the brand new experimental colour film from Harman (Ilford), called Phoenix. This weekend I […]
Read more "Harman Phoenix in the Kodak Ektar H35N"Last Christmas saw me receive a new film camera – and not just a “new to me” camera, an actual brand new model – the Kodak Ektar H35N. Introduced in 2023 as a slight update to the previously released H35, it’s a small, cute, light, simple plastic piece that appears to be inspired design wise […]
Read more "Riding the Superloop with the Kodak Ektar H35N"I recently returned from a twelve day “Best of Scandinavia” cruise. As well as taking many photographs and videos on my iPhone, I also took my Pentax ME-F with 28mm Pentax-M lens, loaded with a roll of Ilford FP4+. Each time the ship docked I took the camera ashore and took some views of the […]
Read more "Oops I underdeveloped my holiday photos"A combination of the pandemic, a new job and a new city has meant I’ve almost completely neglected my analogue photography in recent times. However 2023 is a new year, and one my resolutions is to get back on with this blog, and so here I present some pictures from the only two rolls of […]
Read more "Two Films for Two Years"Freshly returned to Manchester, last October I took the Pentax ME-F, armed with 28mm lens and Ilford FP4+ film, for an autumnal wander around the super hip and fast developing Ancoats area of the city.
Read more "Autumn in Ancoats"
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