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Photography by C. Mostly film, some digital. Mostly 35mm, some medium format. Lots of inspiration posts too.

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Having fun with film simulations on my Fujifilm X-T20. Portra 800 in the frost, and Acros in the springtime countryside!

Film simulation recipes on the Fujifilm X-T20

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First outing for the Pentax 17

First outing for the Pentax 17

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Half frame diptyches

Half frame diptyches

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Bothering ducks at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre

Bothering ducks at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre

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Ronda on Velvia (kind of)

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2023 wrap-up, and goals for 2024

Happy New Year all! I know the usual “what I did in 2023” posts can be a bit dull. I’m guilty of rarely reading them myself, so I’ll keep this one short. I feel like this year revived my photography passion a little bit, which is a nice contrast to the past few years of creative doldrums. This is likely down to a few factors – my partner has been suffering with health problems for the last 3…

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Exploring Blackness Castle

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My first time shooting a LARP event using the Fujifilm X-T20

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Testing the Samyang 12mm F2 lens on Kilve beach

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Itsy bitsy teeny weeny

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Kamlan 50mm 1.1 at the summer solstice

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Forest walk

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Pentax 50mm 1.7 on Fujifilm X-T20

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Tropical greenery in Wales

Tropical greenery in Wales

I had the chance to walk around the oddly-named Water-Break-It’s-Neck waterfall in Powys, Wales. I took my Pentax KS-2 with me, as I wanted the flexibility of digital in the low light, and the Sigma Super-Wide 24mm lens. Love a bit of macro, me The valley is steep on either side, and everything is covered in moss. It’s the kind of place you expect to see in Lord of the Rings, and at the end of…

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Horizon S3 Pro + Brancaster, North Norfolk

Horizon S3 Pro + Brancaster, North Norfolk

The second outing with the Horizon S3 Pro was more successful – I managed to get through most of a roll without it chewing up the film. It got a little stuck at frame 10, but by pressing the rewind button I managed to get it unstuck a couple of times. There’s a bit of a soft spot over on the right, which I’m not sure is normal. These shots also came out a little overexposed, but luckily Agfa…

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Single shot: Horizon S3 Pro

Single shot: Horizon S3 Pro

Cheeeeese It’s fair to say I’m mildly obsessed with panoramas. I once owned one of the fabled (and now eye-wateringly expensive) Hasselblad XPan cameras, but couldn’t get on with the rangefinder format. I love compact cameras with masks that fake a panoramic effect on a 35mm frame. I love stitching shots together to make a patchwork of colour and different exposures. To be honest, the more…

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Canon Sure Shot 76 - sometimes less is more

Canon Sure Shot 76 – sometimes less is more

Back in sunny July, I got the urge, as I often do, to browse the “almost ending” pages of eBay’s Film Camera category. I sometimes fantasise that I’ll see a mislabeled gem and get it for a song, but my impulse buying was, this time, motivated by the #shittycamerachallenge hashtag on Twitter. A long-running (but now almost over) game, which involves buying the shittiest camera possible, for the…

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