That's me – I live in Hay on Wye, amazing (famous) little town. I came to live here 7 years ago after 15 years in South Africa. I've been taking photographs for almost 60 years.
My enthusiasm took a dive about 2 years ago; (will leave the story unsaid) then; I rediscovered film and fell I love with the great art once again.
I had some film cameras from my earlier days and have acquired several more – these are wonderful (mostly) mechanical precision works of art. and this is: my current Gear – March 2025
I'm not going to deliver you a long scribe waxing lyrical about film photography – there's plenty of that online .
​My return to film after 20 odd years of digital, both camerawork and inkjet printing – as a hobby and professionally – has also got me back into darkroom work.
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During my earlier film shooting days my favourite film and chemicals were Ilford FP4 with ID11 and Kodak Tri-X with HC110. Most of my recent work has been with FP4 using Ilford Ilfotec DD-X which I am very happy with. I also like HP5 Plus developed again with Ilford Ilfotec DD-X for medium format work.
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My portfolio shows some colour work, mainly with Kodak Portra using the C41 development process. However I do prefer B&W image making with film so that's where I will concentrate, at least for now.
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I'm not someone who experiments with all sorts of products. I prefer to choose then calibrate to my shooting gear and concentrate on the image making – that may change who knows, but for now it's the latter.
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All my film processing and darkroom photographic printing is done at home by myself
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