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In 2024, between Workshops and personal work, my wife and I spent about a month on the amazing Italian Dolomites. I first visited the Dolomites as a child, visiting multiple times; in 2017, I first went to the Dolomites as a landscape photographer and went back almost every year since, either...

In October 2024, my wife and I spent ten days in Cinque Terre & Tuscany between Workshops and personal work. We have been traveling to both these destinations so often in the last decade that they always felt like home to us. We loved Tuscany so much that in 2023 we made it our actual home...

In September 2025, my wife and I flew to Bilbao in the Basque Country; after spending a couple of days there, we picked up our Workshop’s group and travelled west along the Northern Coast through the Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias and up to Galicia, spending a wonderful week working on this...

A few weeks ago we visited a local farm who opens a small restaurant, for a short while, to celebrate the coming of spring when the sap is running. A new batch of maple syrup and the last of last years blueberries with pancakes make for a wonderfully sinful breakfast! On the way home I found...

Last week, I took my 1960s Spotmatic out for a bit of exercise. I had to wait a good while until this scene was clear of people and cars, but in the end, I got what I wanted. Pentax Spotmatic/FP4+/FX-55. Black and white points set in PS.

Yadkin Bend... These are the days that must happen to you. W.W.

Shot this in Bristol in August on my Yashica Minister 700 using Ilford FP4+. I got it lab processed and it was a bit flat (not blaming the lab) so brought up the blacks, did a bit of burning and threw in a white vignette to mostly block the background distractions. Not everyone's cup of tea I know.

Knowing how the Kodak D23 is a soft developer which I like, I wanted to test it with HP5 using the Neewer LED panel as the light source. Rather than use the perspex diffuser, I placed a homemade scrim in-front of the LED panel to see if I could maintain a softer light source in the final image...

I have taken this many times before however never at this angle or with a Pinhole camera. Zero45 75mm F/216 Ilford FP4 Developed in Pyrocat HD N+1 Exposure 2m 20sec f/216

I love this time of year for the quality of the low Sun, it can be a problem with pinhole when it is too high, they have a tendency to flair in an uncontrollable way, but when the sun is low it's not too much of a problem making it easier to shoot into the light. Pano Crop Portrait...

This is part of the old Spinning Mill with the old Chimney still standing, windows now boarded up and ready for development (more offices I guess). The earliest known mill on the Ilkley Road site was constructed by a Jonas Bates in the 1730s. The mill has been here over 200 years. Voigtlander...

My eldest Son Stephen, window light Mamiya c220f Ilford FP4 Nikon 9000ed in Vuescan

Fujifilm GA645Z1 Fuji Acros 100iso Developed in Kodak Xtol

Another Lily image, I took first on 25 August and the second on 27 August, same flower over 2 days. Again using the Pyrocat-HD minimal agitation method as per Steve Sherman dilutions and times. Click the thumbnails and see it open Chamonix 452-N 150mm lens Ilford FP4 rated at 160iso...

Another flower shot, again experimenting with Pyrocat HD developer Chamonix 4x5 150mm lens Ilford FP4 + @64iso 5 mins @ f/32 Developed in Pyrocat HD 6mils A 4mils B to make up 1000mils Development time 29 mins 20c, semi stand, minimal agitation Tungsten light

I've had a couple of rolls of Rollei infrared film (135 format) in my freezer for a few months, have acquired a Hoya R72 filter, and just purchased a Sunpak 622 Pro strobe. Today I was the lucky winning bidder on an IR head for the strobe. The plan is to shoot IR in low-light situations à la...

Pyrocat HD Fuji Acros Minimal Agitation method (still experimenting) Chamonix 45n-2 64 sec @ f/22 150mm lens

A study of a home grown Lily, what a beautiful plant, we have watched this plant grow day by day then it finally revealed its beauty, I just had to have a go and photograph it. Side on view Up Close Chanomix 45N-2 150mm lens Fuji Acros Developed in Pyrocat HD Epson v800 scanner, Vuescan

Portrait of my youngest Son. Rolleiflex 3.5f 75mm Planer Lens Fuji Acros Developed in Kodak HC110 scanned with Nikon 9000ed