Merry Christmas! — by Bruce Robbins on December 23, 2014

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I'm going to take a wee break from blogging over Christmas and the New Year so this would be a good time to thank all my readers for the...

Mantrap — by Bruce Robbins on December 22, 2014

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Whatever imagination I have, I find it all but impossible to apply it to the art of coming up with titles for photographs. Most of the time,...

Ripped Off? — by Bruce Robbins on December 18, 2014

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Naughty Adox. Naughty, naughty Adox. For the first time ever for me, a 35mm film wound fully out of the cassette and onto the take-up spool ...

An old-fashioned look - but how? — by Bruce Robbins on December 16, 2014

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The vintage look, which I've written about before here , can be quite elusive. Sometimes even the classic lenses with a traditional film...

Leica System Brochure 1953 - Printable — by Bruce Robbins on December 11, 2014

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I might just be suffering from old-fartism but don't you think the design of this 1953 brochure is much more interesting than the 1960s ...

Misspent Youth — by Bruce Robbins on December 10, 2014

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This crumbling den of inequity was where my brother and I often gravitated on Saturdays just a few years before the snooker boom really took...

To crop or not to crop? — by Bruce Robbins on December 09, 2014

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It's not unusual for me to see crops in pictures taken by other photographers but it seems I need to develop the knack of looking at my ...

Phallocentric Composition — by Bruce Robbins on December 05, 2014

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Sorry for the post title but what else could I call it? These three pics were off the third roll of TMax 400 I shot on the Nikon F100 and I...

Why I gave up street photography — by Bruce Robbins on December 03, 2014

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A Muslim in Paris A few weeks ago I got an email from a reader wondering why I never did any street photography so I thought I'd write a...

Nikon F100 gives me the finger! — by Bruce Robbins on December 01, 2014

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Security fence shadow Here I was hoping to have some graphic-looking shots to share with you when the camera gremlins struck. The Nikon F100...