If there's one thing I've learned over the last year, photography-wise, it is that I love shooting against the sun. There's something about silhouettes which makes me go, "Ooooooh..." whenever I see one. So I relished the opportunity to take an early-evening walk in Stirling's old town, where a nice old cemetery and the castle where Mary Queen of ( Read more... )

... I'm not dead, nor have I abandoned this journal for ever ( Read more... )

I had one roll of 120 film cross-processed after my recent trip to Rome. This is how it came out. Funky colours and burnt-out highlights courtesy of the cross-processing.

Angel in front of the Castel Sant'Angelo, where popes used to hide in times of trouble.


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Here's nearly a dozen more grainy, overexposed, expired photos to go with the ones I posted last week. I've thrown in a few non-expired converted colour photos, as well, for the sake of completeness. See if you can spot the difference ( Read more... )

Technically, these photos are rather flawed. I shot them on expired film, seven years past its sell-by date. I then made things worse by keeping the film in my camera for about half a year, which is a big no-no when using old film. The result was a set of grainy, somewhat overexposed-looking photos full of blown-out highlights. And guess what? I ( Read more... )

I did something almost superhuman today. I resisted both the urge to post pictures of trees and my natural inclination towards oversaturation. I hope you're impressed ( Read more... )

A rare example of a centred image in my journal...


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For what_name, who requested a different crop of the photo I posted last night.


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Turkey Superlatives, part deux:

Greatest general disappointment: The fact that so many places we wanted to visit were closed for renovation, right in the middle of the tourist season. In itself, this is something I'm fairly used to. Two years ago, I extended my holiday in Egypt by four days in order to visit some of Cairo's most beautiful museums ( Read more... )