Welcome to my photography site.
About
I’m a 40 something software engineer. OK, in reality I’m looking 50 right in the eye. I picked up photography over 20 years ago and did a lot of it for many years. Over time, other priorities took over and I neglected it. I recently decided to go back to it and concentrate on monochrome.
Blog
On Library Lending Cards
Warning: this is photography-adjacent only. Sometimes I buy second hand books. Either on Amazon or on local markets. Mostly because when you buy a lot of books it becomes expensive. Especially photography books. And I need the money for photography and astronomy. On occasion, these books come from libraries that have closed or that have …
Is Substack Just a Bunch of Echo Chambers?
I’m still trying to identify why I like Substack so much more than other social platforms. So navel gazing warning is in place. One of the things that annoyed me with Substack is the fact that the various people writing on it do so for duplicates of themselves.
Exploring Street Photography in Paris
I’m not a street photographer. Part of it is that I live in the middle of nowhere and we don’t really have streets. I was in Paris at the weekend to visit my parents, so I experimented a bit.