• 2026
• May 22 That time of year again ~ thoughts on camera bags and packing gear
• May 17 Three colour and three monochrome ~ editing photos of an old plane
• May 13 A creepy edit ~ monochrome with a red filter, the Camp Snap Pro, and a Sony NEX 6
• May 11 Dark and creepy forest photos in black and white
• May 9 Two lonely tree photos with the Camp Snap Pro
• Apr 26 Catching blue twilight ~ a walk with the Olympus C-8080 Wide Zoom
• Apr 12 Photos that don’t make the cut ~ selling Zen at the Mindil Beach sunset market
• Apr 11 Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory ~ indigenous art at Ubirr
• Mar 21 Burnt highlights and textured bricks ~ in colour and black and white
• Mar 17 The setting sun through trees - light, shape, colour and photographic intent
• Mar 16 Glass and reflections ~ thoughts on editing and photographic approach, with two examples
• Mar 15 Zebra, Giraffe, and Meerkat ~ a tour of Altina Wildlife Park
• Mar 13 A Sunset Series ~ Darlington Point, NSW
• Mar 12 Some machinery never seems to tire
• Mar 5 Slow warm nights in Mount Isa
• Mar 4 A view through a lens of a dream far away
• Feb 26 A bench and shadows ~ one in colour and one in black and white
• Feb 25 The leisurely glow of sunlight on walls ~ a short series in black and white
• Feb 24 The leisurely glow of sunlight on walls ~ a short series in colour
• Feb 17 One sunset and two photos for the opacarophile ~ looking for something different
• Feb 11 A restaurant no more ~ two images
• Feb 10 Nifty fifty and the Nikon D50 ~ a casual photo-walk
• Feb 3 Manual Mode or Die! ~ the race to prove oneself
• Jan 28 The Fujifilm Finepix S200EXR ~ strange sensor alchemy from 2009
• Jan 19 Fuzzying up the edges ~ more edits of Camp Snap photos
• Jan 18 Back to camp ~ softening oversharpened photos
• Jan 18 Pocketable plastic fun and the Nikon D200 ~ a day on the coast with two cameras
• Jan 16 The Chuzhao Toy Camera ~ Inspiration at your fingertips or more plastic junk?
• Jan 13 It’s all about the vibe ~ why use old digital cameras?
• Jan 12 The Olympus Camedia C-770 Ultra Zoom ~ 4 million pixels of unhurried contemplation
• Jan 8 The draining of the rivers ~ wet dreams of the AI Techpreneurs
• Jan 7 Lo-fi junk toy paradise ~ The G6 Thumb Camera
• Jan 2 Discovering quiet corners ~ the transient and the imperfect
• Jan 1 Calm and chaos ~ a short walk
• Jan 1 Closing the circle ~ a sunset with the Olympus Camedia C-725 Ultra Zoom
• 2025
• Dec 31 Liberated from technical perfection ~ some city snaps from the Kodak Charmera
• Dec 30 A day in the city with the Kodak Charmera ~ dark laneways, bricks, and fluffy toys
• Dec 29 Under the old bridge with the Kodak Charmera ~ yes, again with this tiny toy camera!
• Dec 28 Before and after edits from the Kodak Charmera ~ in colour this time
• Dec 28 Lo-fi photos and simulated film grain ~ more from the Kodak Charmera
• Dec 27 30 grams of plastic charm ~ The Kodak Charmera digital keychain camera
• Dec 24 Graffiti and toy trucks late in the day ~ Nikon F80 loaded with Fuji Superia 200 colour 35mm film
• Nov 21 Exploring Iron Knob with a Nikon F80 and Kodak Ultramax film
• Aug 18 Exploring four mountain landscapes ~ thoughts on aesthetic choices and gear limits
• Aug 17 Blue mountains, orange clouds ~ two photo themes informed by limitations
• Aug 17 A waterfall, tourists, and different camera generations
• Aug 17 Two poems
• Aug 13 The quiet walls speak of soft light and secret corners
• Aug 12 Bridges, crocs, work, and technology upgrades
• Aug 2 A quick trip to Brisbane and a day with the Tiffen Glimmerglass filter
• Jul 29 The end of the road and the end of the holiday ~ some charming photos from the Camp Snap
• Jul 9 Shop-windows, reflections, and open doors ~ night wandering
• Jul 7 Testing the Nikon D3400 and a low-priced DX telephoto lens classic
• Jul 6 The Viltrox AF 28mm f4.5 ~ anyone for pancakes?
• Jul 5 Why pack more than one camera? Thoughts on vanity, bag space, and lens mounts
• Jul 2 Two black and whites and the joy of packing light
• Jun 30 More Nikon Z5 night photos ~ pushing ISO
• Jun 29 A night-walk with the Nikon Z5 ~ some thoughts on the quality of light
• Jun 25 The Helios 44 lens ~ a Cold War legend
• Jun 22 Where home used to be ~ rushing to photograph a sunset and bearing the weight of expectation
• Jun 22 A ruin where your mind was ~ thoughts on AI model collapse, illusions of sentience, and the culture of grift
• Jun 19 Soft light, plastic lenses, and bokeh ~ back to the Sima Soft Focus lens and others
• Jun 18 The Meyer-Optik Gorlitz Lydith lens ~ 30mm of vintage sharpness
• Jun 18 A day off and low motivation for much of anything ~ possessing the world in photos and missing moments
• Jun 16 The Sima 100mm f2 Soft Focus Lens ~ photos from your dreams
• Jun 14 The excitement of a road-trip and escaping into the world
• Jun 13 Notes from the warm side ~ another crappy photo
• Jun 9 Dreamy photos from the Yongnuo 25mm 1.7 lens
• Jun 8 Nitmiluk National Park ~ awe-inspiring gorges, a kit lens, and harsh light
• Jun 5 The first flush of winter and some photos
• Jun 3 Progress notes ~ I’m just over here making crappy photos
• Jun 2 Progress notes on adding “vibe” to the Camp Snap camera
• May 30 Back to basics with a trendy toy camera ~ Camp Snap or Crap Snap?
• May 28 Water, steel, and the perfect shoulder camera bag
• May 23 Strange name, big Cold War glass ~ the Zenitar 16mm 2.8 Fisheye lens
• May 22 Squeezing the most from old lenses ~ the Clubman 28mm 2.8
• May 20 Of wrecked trains and automobiles
• May 20 Some thoughts on Quiet Photography
• May 9 Revisiting ruins and ethics - moral philosophy and photography
• May 7 A short self-reflection on ethics in photography in the context of a recent confrontation
• May 6 Revisiting a ruin at sunset and dealing with angry people
• May 4 Finding inspiration in black and white with the Nikon D200
• May 4 Uluru up close ~ a story of hiking, geology, erosion, and deep time
• Apr 30 A photo edit ~ the original versus the edited version ~ musings on cropping, shadow recovery, exposure, and masking
• Apr 29 Local ruins and ruinous beliefs
• Apr 27 Camera settings, mistakes, and cognitive load
• Apr 26 Walking the old goldfields with the Fujifilm Finepix S6500fd ~ ghostly gums and Fuji-Chrome
• Apr 25 Wending my way through photo edits on a quiet day ~ curation, technical considerations, and personal growth
• Apr 23 Diesel, detritus and digital dust ~ a few more photos from the Nikon D70s
• Apr 22 A local photo walk with the Nikon D70S ~ rust, wood, and vegetation in the suburbs
• Apr 21 Digging deeper into a cache of unedited photos ~ thoughts on subject and composition
• Apr 20 More photos from the Pentax K10D
• Apr 20 I discovered a cache of unedited photo files ~ backups and bad sectors
• Apr 19 A day with the Pentax K10D ~ my short time as a Pentaxian
• Apr 4 A contemplative wander at sunrise with the camera
• Mar 31 Tjoritja aglow ~ The West MacDonnell Ranges
• Mar 28 My first digital camera ~ Kodak
• Mar 27 In the forest of the night ~ the hostile internet
• Mar 24 More photos from the Nikon D200
• Mar 23 A sunny day with the Nikon D200
• Mar 18 Have I become a Nikon fan, unwittingly?
• Mar 15 The Night Feeling ~ wondering and wandering in the quiet night
• Mar 11 Two sunsets ~ no pretensions
• Mar 10 Murder in Larrimah
• Mar 9 In search of rust and answers ~ what of the future?
• Mar 7 A calm night rudely interrupted
• Mar 6 Framing the sunset
• Mar 2 Web gnomes and the technocrat hijack
• Feb 24 The small beauty of everyday things
• Feb 22 What happened to the World Wide Web?
• Feb 19 In the space between inspiration
• Feb 17 Quiet corners and photos of distinct insignificance
• Feb 16 What do you do when your photos don’t inspire?
• Feb 16 Seeing in 2025 quietly
• Feb 2 Two rust-buckets at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
• Feb 2 Two sunsets for the Opacarophile
• 2024
• Dec 29 Lonely towns and broken dreams
• Nov 11 Flowers, trees, and Chihuly
• Nov 10 The amazing art of Dale Chihuly
• Nov 3 Out on the street again
• Nov 2 Some street photos with the perfectly excellent Nikon D40
• Oct 22 Red paint and contemplation
• Oct 20 Green machines, rusty bolts, and dynamic range
• Oct 9 Is film photography special to me?
• Oct 9 Photography blues: when things don’t go your way
• Oct 8 More photos from Wycliffe Well
• Oct 7 From UFO sightings to dilapidation ~ Wycliffe Well
• Oct 6 Detritus in Coober Pedy
• Oct 5 Making photos or taking photos?
• Sep 30 A few more from the Olympus E-1
• Sep 29 Editing Olympus E1 files - What’s happening here?
• Sep 24 Blasted landscape - Mad Max country
• Sep 23 Diffuse sunlight - experimenting with cheap plastic and dreamy filters
• Sep 22 First time out with the Olympus E-1: Kodak Colour Science?
• Sep 21 Scenes in yellow on a cloudy day
• Sep 15 The Nikon D40 - a perfectly small classic
• Sep 15 Sunsets and uncomfortable confrontations
• Sep 11 Another cloudy day and another Finepix camera in hand
• Sep 7 First photos with the Nikon Z5
• Sep 6 A cloudy few hours with the Finepix S6500fd
• Sep 3 Rust, ruin, and Fujifilm bridge cameras
• Sep 1 CCD vs CMOS colours - debate, assumption, bias, and speculation
• Aug 31 Exploring the Nikon Z5
• Aug 31 A remembrance of old cameras and simple joys
• Aug 27 Ruins, marketing, and megapixels
• Aug 25 Forgotten towns of the Flinders with the Nikon D70
• Aug 19 Botanicals and the Biophilia Hypothesis - Sony RX100
• Aug 18 Tin, wood, and rust
• Aug 17 Waterways and constructions - more pictures from the Sony RX100
• Aug 16 Abstracts, reflections, and textures - Sony RX100 Mark 1
• Aug 11 Possible picture settings for the Sony RX100
• Aug 11 Flower fantasy with the Helios 44-2
• Aug 10 Rubble and ruin on the side of the road
• Aug 9 Down the Port with the SMC Super Macro Takumar 50mm
• Aug 5 Abstracts and macros with the Finepix S7000
• Aug 4 Watch the shutter speed - a hike with the Finepix S7000
• Aug 3 A day out with the Fujifilm Finepix S7000

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