The person may have so many stories from over their lifetime that I really want to listen too, but the key is not to loose concentration on the image, the chat is there in your ears, in your head but it really just becomes a rhythm, a beat for the timing of the shutter.
Analogue Oldie
The fascinating thing to get my head around (quickly) was the lack of information. Only the Olympus and Bronica have light meters and on these, the only information offered is the shutter speed that needs to be used to obtain the “correct” exposure (and of course at this point, having been a long tine since I had used either of these cameras, I need to understand how these cameras expose compared to how I see the final image.
Frightfest 2026 Closing Slideshow
The slideshow of images that played on the main screen of the ODEON Leicester Square before the final film.
WOMAD 2026
A few weeks ago I was at the 2026 edition of the WOMAD festival on its lovely new site, Neston Park. This festival has featured in a number of posts here over the years so I thought a quick write up from this year was in order;
A trip to the football
This weekend we took a trip to the local team, Worthing F.C. for a pre-season friendly against Horsham. I joined the 1000+ fans, just to get a feel of what lower league matches are like .