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Here are some stories about my art photography. Most of these stories are about film based photos, primarily because I love the look and that I get with film. I also love the experience of shooting, developing and holding the film up to the light to previsualise how the finished image will look. Additionally, I like the way that shooting film feels like a different process to the photos I take for work. Digital photography has taken over for a reason, the quality, detail and level of light you can work in and create great shots is magic, but digital photography is magic like smart phones and the internet. Things that you just accept as here and working but only have a vague five minute understanding of. Film is magic because even though I have a good understanding of the technical process of manufacturing film, I know how to develop and have worked in labs processing film for other photographers, I am still amazed every time I pull a freshly developed roll off the spiral and hang it up to dry. That is magic.

Today we are going back, back to last century, back before children, two lifetimes ago you could even say. The other day I saw an ad for the Australian Moto GP 2023. I thought about it, but I have a bit on this year so I wont be heading down. I did go and dig out the rolls that I shot at the 1999...

In May my brother came down from Sydney for a visit. We went camping but he had a couple of days in Melbourne beforehand to check out the sights. I jumped a V-line down to Melbourne and spent one of the days wandering around with him, checking out the sites, and taking some photos of course. One o...

Back with part six. This series shows images from my trip to Sydney in Feb. In case you missed the enthralling story to this point, you can find part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here and part five here.

So the final stop on the road trip back to Melbourne was L...

Back with part five. This series shows images from my trip to Sydney in Feb. In case you missed the enthralling story to this point, you can find part one here, part two here, part three here and part four here.

Back in the car and headed south we stopped at Central Tilba a very tidy li...

This is the continuing photo story of my February trip to Sydney. You can catch up with the previous installments, part one here, part two here and part three here.

All good things must come to an end and so it was that before too long it was time to head back to Melbourne. There is no nee...

Back with the next installment of photos from my Sydney trip in Feb. See part one here and part two here or use the previous post button at the bottom of this page. These photos are from a night time walk around the city streets, just a foot cruise, looking for things that I find interesting....

Well, back with part two of the trip to Sydney. Part one of this series is here if you missed it. Here are some more shots taken on FP4 Plus. These are developed in HC-110 which is what I have been using lately. I am pretty happy with the results. As a sort of incidental I am using a funny dilut...

In February I managed to get away to Sydney for a couple of nights with some mates who I have been hanging out with since the nineties. Apart form the enjoyment of getting some time with friends in a different place, time away from the day to day routine also means time to take some photos.

Thi...

In the last post I showed some black and white shots of one of the cars which is for sure on the cool cars list. Here is the counter to all that monochromatic magic, some colour shots from the same shoot. Now I know that they are not actually technicolor which, of course, is a motion picture colou...