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  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – Canary Islands and East Africa.

    Our journey continues with the adventurers from last ‘Someones Vintage Eyes’ and remains ‘around’ the African continent. I think this post is likely both a prequel and afterward of the last as we bounce between Canary Islands first (going by slide number) and then to East Africa. But I am taking this box by box…

  • Bits and Bobs

    Sometimes one just ends up with a few shots in an outing. Maybe the others were complete flops, or maybe you just didn’t shoot enough. You throw them all into a folder. They don’t really go together. They don’t really have a theme. Perhaps their only common attribute is they are a captured point of…

  • Through Someones Vintage Eyes – South Africa.

    Ok. Here we go – some more ‘Through Someones Vintage Eyes’. Let’s set the scene (conveniently these slides had a few giveaways). Its 1962. The movie ‘Fate Takes a Hand’ has been released. Kine weekly magazine stated “The pilot story is adequate” (Im not sure that would fly now). Ed, John, Dave, Bob, Ian and…

  • Reflections on my City

    Sometimes when you stroll around with film you run out… but it’s not time to finish. It’s been a little while since I last used my phone creatively to take photos – which is funny really as in good light, mobile phones really do capture all one needs for ‘normal’ life use. This said, I…

  • Pinhole Test 1

    It’s been a little while since I last shot any pinhole cameras. I’ve been eyeing up several on the market. Pinhole cameras are quite literally a light tight box with a hole. So I (yet again) made my own panoramic 35mm camera. Currently I don’t have the right equipment to fully scan the full width…