Doorways (Cee’s Travel Theme)

I had decided to limit myself to taking part in Cee’s Black & White Challenges, but having just received an email with her latest posting on her ‘Travel theme – doorways’, I decided… Continue reading →

WordPress themes – random header will show all my classic cameras, eventually

The change of theme for this, my photo blog, seems to be going well. Something I really like is the grid at the side showing pix (with links) to some other bloggers’ posts… Continue reading →

Change of theme

24 March. Well I’ve done it. I finally picked up courage to push the ‘Activate’ button so here is the new theme. There’s still some work to do – it needs a new… Continue reading →

The disaster of transferring to WordPress.org

Yet another of my favourite blogs has announced a transfer from WordPress.com to WordPress.org; this time he not only announced it but did it within hours, and so has disappeared completely off the… Continue reading →

Out and about with an even older film and camera (Yashica FX-3); a stand development experiment

Sorting through my old photo stuff I found a roll of 35mm HP5 on which I’d written ‘7 expd’ and ’14 expd’. As the leader was still out of the cassette I thought… Continue reading →

Why would I want to ‘moderate’ comments before they appear?

I’ve recently removed the requirement for comments to be ‘moderated’ before they appear – on both my blogs. I didn’t consciously put them there when I first created the blogs but, getting emails… Continue reading →

Dabbling again in ‘street photography’ – Olympus XA3, Kodak Tmax400

I said in my previous post that I’d been having another go at ‘street photography’ and I chose the simple point-and-shoot Olympus XA3. Then I’d only shot half the film, mostly during Christmas… Continue reading →

A masterclass in photo technique

A Christmas present I received from my wife was a delightful surprise: a DVD of the film ‘The King’s Speech’. But the ‘bonus’ section was a long interview with director Tom Hooper which,… Continue reading →

Back from the kitchen – promise

Now that my Christmas cooking marathon is over I’m intending to get back to a regular post here – concentrating on classic cameras and film. But here’s a picture from grumpytyke’s final Christmas Dinner… Continue reading →