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The Picstoria [blog]

  • Pinhole day…

      Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. I took some pictures. I developed some pictures. I wasn’t really in the mood today, but I had got up at 9.30am in preparation, and had been thinking about a fresh assault on pinhole for quite some time, so I just got up and got on with it. Although at first Read more

  • Camera obscura

    Today has been gloriously sunny and I’m not at work… so in advance of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, I took my homemade pinhole camera Button for a spin to check that everything is working properly. It’s been almost a year (don’t judge me – I’ve been busy!) since I last indulged the poor thing. I know this because Read more

  • Time it was and what a time it was, it was…

    I spent an evening rediscovering some old digital scans of negatives I think I might have lost. They are photographs from a road trip I took with my best friend in 2008 across the Pacific northwest (America and briefly Canada). I was a little concerned I had lost the digital files too when the CD wouldn’t work via my laptop but Read more

  • Take 2: Adventures in bokeh

    Before and after shots can be quite fun. Every now and then I take a digital photograph that goes on a bigger life changing journey after the shutter fires than most. I’m going to post the more extreme examples of these from time to time just for fun under the heading Take 2. I’m not always that fond of editing pictures. Read more

  • New lenses…

    …for my eyes. Quite an important piece of equipment to upgrade. I actually rather enjoyed my eye test. At one point she rather disarmingly said to me, “I’m sure you’ve been told this before, but your left pupil is bigger than your right pupil.”. It was more the casual assumption that I’d been told this before than the Read more

  • Caveat emptor: part the second

    After having confirmation that I would be sent a TTL viewfinder to go with my new massive 6×7 film camera, I impatiently waited for it to arrive. I kept nervously tracking its progress via the shipping company and got a bit excited as I saw it had made its way into the country. And then Read more