A couple of weeks ago, I took part in a Fab Collective project which saw us ditch our cutting edge digital photography equipment and arm ourselves with just a disposable film camera each.  Our mission was to go out within a 1-mile radius of our starting location and to simply shoot with the disposables within a 2-hour window.

Until then, I had not shot any film since 2002 when I sold up all of my film cameras.  Actually, that’s not quite true, I still have an APS film camera and little Polaroid Fisher Price thing lying around somewhere, but they’ve not …more

Like most people, I find it difficult to detect gradual changes. For example, when you don’t notice the change in people you see everyday, but you notice the changes in those you don’t see often. The same can be said for things such as the movement of the sun, clouds, tide, flowers which open and close with the sun and other such phenomenon.

One way to make these gradual changes more visible is to record snapshots over a longer period of time and then review them over a shorter period. Like drawing a line on a wall to …more

As my camera history shows, Canon models have featured quite heavily in the line up of cameras I’ve owned.  Much like Windows computers, Canon were the popular and safe choice.  Well, hey, it’s 2009 and I’m composing this on a Mac because I believe it to be the better personal computing platform for me at this time.  As the title of this blog post suggests rather unsubtly, Canon have lost their hold on me and I’ve ‘gone to the dark side’.

Out went the Canon EOS 5D and in its place came the Nikon D700.  So, why the big move?

Improved high …more