Midweek Monochrome A few pinhole images taken last week as my 120 roll for The Frugal Film Project. These are abandoned, decaying fishing boats alongside the River Wyre on Fleetwood Marsh in Lancashi...

Choosing a frugal camera for 2027 - maybe?

Excitement, difficult choices, time in the dark and panic!

Midweek Monochrome This week I’m posting a few images made for last weekend’s Worldwide Half-Frame Photography Day. These were taken at Skippool Creek in Lancashire with my Pentax 17, Ilford FP4 and ...

A Circular Walk from Carnforth, Lancashire

Classic Cars in My Local Park

The beauty of Buttermere

Details from a beach walk

Pinhole photography with Ilford Ortho Plus

Ruined Abbeys of North Yorkshire with my Pentax 17

Along the beach with a Holga

Midweek Monochrome At the end of last week, I took advantage of the very hot weather and loaded up a few sheets of 4”x5” Rollei Infrared. I headed out with my Chroma Snapshot, with its 75mm lens, and...

First roll of Lucky 200 colour film

Midweek Monochrome A few half frame 35mm images taken last week with my Pentax 17 on Ilford FP4 Plus with a red filter. These are the promenade in Cleveleys, Lancashire. The images don’t show that I ...

Walks with my Zero Image 2000

A first look at Ilford Pan F Plus in large format

Images with "Infrared" Film

A gentle Lake District stroll

A walk with a glimpse of "summer"

I have been developing my own film for over 4 decades and really enjoy the chemical processes in photography.

A sunny spring walk at Bolton Abbey

25th February

Following the River Wyre to the coast

A Wander Around the Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve

Don McCullin – The Landscape Whilst this large volume of monochrome images was published in 2018, it remains a constant inspiration. Following over six decades as one of the most iconic confl…

Revisiting the familiar places

Disaster, followed by success, with my Holga Pinhole Camera

Travelling light in winter with my Holga 120N

A few images from earlier in the year taken along the Fylde coast in Lancashire. Hasselblad 501CM with Rollei Retro 400S. Some using a Lee Big Stopper ND filter.

Living close to the coast, we rarely get any snow. So the best that I have been able to capture this winter, so far, are some frosted images. Taken with a 105mm f2.8 Micro Nikkor lens on Ilford HP5 Pl...

Shooting my Exakta Varex IIa for The Frugal Film Project 2025

Darkroom printing this morning to get a photo ready to submit to a local gallery’s open exhibition at the end of the week. Thought that I’d nailed it yesterday afternoon, but decided to switch from RC...

My pinhole images from The Frugal Film Project 2025

Looking back over the past year

A Walk behind Blackpool's promenade

Four half-frame images taken on a walk last week between Fleetwood and Cleveleys in Lancashire. Pentax 17 with Ilford HP5 Plus developed in Kodak HC110(B).

A walk behind Blackpool's promenade

A few images from a local classic car show in late summer featuring some iconic British cars. Nikon FM2n with Nikkor 50mm f1.4 and Ilford FP4 Plus.

A morning in Lancashire's historic Ribble Valley

A couple of images from a walk with a friend on Tuesday. The hill is Nicky Nook, a popular small fell near Scorton in Lancashire, with a modest height of 705 feet (215 m). Fantastic views out towards ...