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26/05/202520/05/2025

The Bestest Travel Setup in the History of the Universe

Did you like my attempt at YT-style clickbait? Seriously, there is no such thing. There is no perfect setup; there is no one way to do things; there is no best lens/camera/film. Only you can know what gear works for you given a set of circumstances. Let’s move on from that.

As I’m going to travel to Oslo, as I do a couple of times a year for work (I work for vikings), I thought I’d show my camera travel setup and explain my choices. Not because I do it better than anyone else and I have some magical knowledge of what is best, but just out of interest, because I like to know what people use for their own photography. Feel free to show me yours.

23/05/202520/05/2025

What will happen to your photos once you’re gone?

One of the things that I’ve been thinking about for a long time is: what will happen to my photos once I’m gone? I’m not talking about whether the actual images will still exist (hint: print). I’m talking about what will people do with them.

22/05/2025

Islay Lighthouse

To start the series, I’ve taken a random photo from many years ago. In May 2009, I visited the isle of Islay, on the West coast of Scotland, with my wife and my parents. Islay is a pilgrimage place for people interested in peaty whisky and both my wife and my father are into it. So it made sense to have a visit.

22/05/202520/05/2025

The PC

Paris used to have a train line going around it. It was called the PC: Petite Ceinture. It was closed a long time ago (before I was born I think).

Most of it has disappeared: covered, built upon, or recycled. It was even converted into private gardens in places. There are few sections that have been converted to walking tracks.

21/05/202520/05/2025

Blue

I don’t often take colour photos, but this time I made the conscious effort to do so.

I liked all the blue things. That’s taken at the back of Beaubourg. The less touristy side.

Lots of blue pipes and signs, Beaubourg, Paris

20/05/2025

Walking under the arches

I was in Paris a few weekends ago to visit my parents. I took the opportunity to walk around Paris for a few days.

I had to wait a while to get people and the pigeon in the right place.

Walking under the arches, Beaubourg, Paris

19/05/2025

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 sold some of their stock of rarely borrowed books to replace them with books people prefer.

I love when these books still contain their date stamped lending cards.

16/05/202515/05/2025

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.

An interesting boat. Nothing to do with the post, but I wanted a photo in it

12/05/202512/05/2025

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.

09/05/202514/03/2025

An Obsession with Details

Sometimes, photography reminds me of scientific research. Both disciplines demand an intense focus on minute details, adhering to conventions that outsiders rarely understand, communicating in a formalized way, and both often seem incomprehensible to the general public.