Today I stepped well outside my current comfort zone… one that has been largely self imposed since… certain events some years ago. I withdrew from many aspects of life back then, it wasn’t conscious… but it has been hard trying to get out and meet people ever since. This last few weeks I have been…

Today I was out working on the Black Isle – and it was glorious! I got home and had everything uploaded ready before the end of day, managed to get all my invoices roughed out to send on Monday… and then bought a couple of vintage Soviet rangefinder cameras. At some point soon I will…

Just a quick update – the photos from the big pano BEAST came out wonderfully – all 4 frames were great (one was a duplicate to make sure I had it, but it wasn’t actually necessary). The Fuji is still not right, but I have replaced a couple more light seals I found and am…

Today I had a wee job in Inverness, just on the edge of town… so I decided afterwards to go and check out a location I have been wanting a look at for a while. There is a small, dilapidated, boathouse sitting on a loch not far from the city which someone posted on a…

All the parts arrived to repair the Fuji yesterday, so I spent an hour or so carefully cutting and sticking lightseals into the camera. This is not something I have done before, and the internet was telling me it was hard and complicated…. It wasn’t… as with so many thing on line I think people…

The rolls of Kodak Gold came back today and were… entirely underwhelming. Actually… worse than that… it was pretty bad. 3 rolls in, one was entirely blank, another had the one shot I really wanted on, but that one was blank. The other version of it was double exposed, then an actual proper exposure (which…

Today my first rangefinder camera arrived… there is another coming too… both were cheap, but this is the one I am most excited about. A Fuji GSW690! It all seems to work okay, the shutter and aperture particularly, and the rangefinder itself is seemingly okay too. I suspect the light seals are shot (there had…

I will do a proper review of this entirely silly camera soon, but I just wanted to share this one from the Sprocket Rocket which is oozing with that lo-fi charm!

I can feel autumn approaching now, the world is starting to wind down, slow down and prepare for the darkness. I love this time of year, the colours as the leaves shift from greens to reds and golds. The chill in the air and the misty mornings. It is a time when the otherworld feels…

You may be asking yourself… Rob, mate, why on God’s Green Earth do you shoot analogue. And that is a fair question. I don’t only shoot analogue for starters – I use a LOT of digital equipment too. I shoot on Nikon Z series cameras commercially, and until recently, all my landscape photography was also…