Well… it would be if I were a rookie that is!

I have shot a couple of epic photographs the last couple of days on analogue… at least… they would have been epic… if I had taken the lens cap off!

Yes, the problem with rangefinder cameras – even something as robust as the Texas Leica – is that you don’t look through the lens. So if the cap is on you get a blank frame. And on this roll there are many blank frames!

We live and (hopefully) learn!

These things shouldn’t really happen to someone who is actively working as a commercial photographer, but, truth be told, this goes to highlight one of the few things I agree with the workshop/camera club photographers about. You need to know your kit! Anything new brings a learning curve, and the switch into analogue for my planned return to fine art landscape photography has really brought this home! Unlike many in the field I started with analogue, I even worked with analogue as a photographer, but then I went digital… it is so much easier! But it looses something along the way, the photographs can be stunning – possibly more so than film will ever allow – but they have more of the photographer and the moment recorded, they are more tangible… and they are (generally speaking) more true – hence this current project which is slowly getting underway.

I am not turning my back on digital, and I will be releasing prints that are shot digitally as well as some which are hybrid – shot analogue then scanned and printed digitally… but my dream is to have a purely analogue, hand made, range of one off prints! This is a way off yet, but I hope to start getting close to launching these bespoke pieces in the next 12 months or so!

And I will remember to take the lens cap off!