Author: documentaryfestival

I scanned my final roll of pre-lockdown negatives a couple of days ago – a roll of expired Kodak Plus-X shot with my Yashica Mat 124G. They were all taken the day before lockdown was introduced in the UK, and I managed to get them developed by my local lab on the actual day of […]… Continue reading The last of the pre-lockdown photos — Steel City Snapper photography blog

We invited noted eleganteur and Leica M5 mom Kimmiechem2 to luxuriate in a buffet of excellence and pick our Photo Of The Week. This week’s Photo of the Week is a collection of landscape photographs by Henrik Emtkjær Hansen. Stunning in its starkness and soothing geometry, the lines from one landscape lead us to the […]… Continue reading Photo Of The Week 5/10/20 — #BelieveInFilm

I visited an abandoned bridge and forgotten cemetery on US 40 near Plainfield, Indiana. via An abandoned bridge and a forgotten cemetery — Down the Road

Another photograph I made on my final pre-lockdown roll of film today. It’s a photo I like a lot, but it’s one that, from an aesthetic perspective at least, could probably do with some editing. I’m talking primarily about the twigs at the left of the frame and the light stalks of grass at bottom-right, […]… Continue reading To edit, or not to edit? To photograph, or not to photograph? — Steel City Snapper photography blog

Car wash on instant film. via single frame: Temporary hours — Down the Road

I got married near Bangalore, two-and-a-half years ago, in a wedding venue a few minutes drive from the village my wife was born in. It was once a rural hinterland. Now it sits on the edge of one of the world’s most rapidly growing megacities. Bangalore went from a city of gardens and colonial bungalows […]… Continue reading Single Frame: Mysore market — Kosmo Foto

Random Post via Minster — MostlyMonochrome

1. Just do it! Nothing kills more great portraits than the fear of doing it in the first place. If you go out with the intention of shooting some street portraits you have to dive straight in, like jumping into a cold shower or ripping off a bandaid, it’s best to overcome the anxiety in […]… Continue reading 4 Tips for Street Portraits. — Grain not Noise