Wood Street, 1967
I've spent some more time looking at my mother's slides and uncovered this gem from 1967. It shows Wood Street in Swindon, Wiltshire. Taken at 4:10 pm, on a rainy…
To Flash or not to Flash?
So I'm not going to write here about strobes or speedlites à la Strobist or Joe McNally, I'm going to write about Adobe Flash and the überhype around the Apple's…
First Camera
Darren Rouse over at Digital Photography School recently asked the question, "What was your first photography experience?". My first experience was borrowing my mother's Instamatic (don't recall if it was…
The Louvre, Paris
I spent the bulk of 1998 and 1999 living in Paris, France. For the first time since 1985 I didn't own a car. I walked, took the bus or rode…
Campbell, South Africa
In 1986, having received a sentence of 5-years suspended for 5-years having been caught brewing beer in Libya, I was assigned to South Africa. In January 1987 I found myself in the…
Bodø, Norway
Boats in Bodø harbour at midnight.
In the summer of 1985 I took off for a rail trip around Europe with a close friend. Having traveled around German, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and (the former) Yugoslavia the…