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Photo Journal

  1. Re-Building the Bouldering Wall - Part 2, Volumes and Painting

    In a departure from the normal photography blog, what follows is part two of a pictorial essay on re-building a bouldering wall, mainly for my own future reference. If you’d like to start at the beginning follow Re-Building the Bouldering Part 1, Out with the Old, in with the New…

  2. The Spark - The Reason to take a Photograph

    Spark - to kindle, animate, or stimulate (interest, activity, spirit, etc.) - Dictionary.com. “We want to depict the world, that’s why the camera is here, that’s why people have cameras, they want to depict their visions of it, their feelings of it. That’s why there’s a lot of amateur photographers…

  3. Old Adventures in Film - Part 2 - Yashica Partner AF

    Well this camera was a sod to find! … But let’s start at the beginning. In 1986,  two friends and I interrailed around Europe. To document our adventure I bought a compact , lightweight, straight-forward, no nonsense, autofocus 35mm camera , the Yashica Partner AF. Pop in a couple of…

  4. Old Adventures In Film - Part 1 - Fujica ST 705W

    Back before the word digital had been invented, at the age of 13 or 14, I bought my first (and only) SLR camera, the black version of the fully manual Fujica ST 705W  There were more advanced, more technically sophisticated, more admired and desired, 35mm SLR cameras available, both Olympus…

  5. Re-Building the Bouldering Wall - Part 1, Out with the Old, In with the New

    In a departure from the normal photography blog, what follows is a pictorial essay on building a bouldering wall, mainly for my own future reference In 2020, as a lockdown project, I spent my time building an outside bouldering wall. The wall and volumes were made of plywood, sealed with…

  6. Canon imagePROGRAF Pro-2600 Review

    I’d promised to write a detailed (and extremely boring) review of my big lump of Canon Pro2600 printer, and was about to set to work, when something quite remarkable happened, a print from the printer made a grown man cry.  An emotional Paul Clark. Photo Credit; Delyth Rennie Now, if…

  7. Yorkshire Dales Quarries 1 - Dry Rigg

    Dry Rigg is a quarry in Ribblesdale operated by Tarmac; one of five working quarries operating in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The quarry is one of only six UK quarries capable of producing the high grade,  hard wearing , skid-resistant gritstone, needed for motorways and airport runways.   Quarries are…

  8. Yorkshire Dales Quarries 2 - Dry Rigg and Arcow

    Dry Rigg Quarry A second visit to Dry Rigg quarry (click here for the first visit) on a better day weather-wise gave a little more time to explore new subject matter, refine compositions and to pair the anamorphic lens with a tripod to sharpen up the panoramic images. Thanks again…

  9. Paper Choices 3 - Pinnacle Paper, A Love Affair Goes Up in Smoke

    Taken for a fool, months of effort and time wasted, how a love affair with my favourite paper went up in smoke.  Around ten years ago, at a small photography show, I found myself in conversion with a chap about the paper he was selling. The conversation was the start…

  10. A Celebration of the Yorkshire Dales, through the Printed Photograph

    There’s much to forward to at the Yorkshire Dales Landscape Photography Show, but as the show’s organiser, the one thing in particular that I’m eager to see are the photographs in print form.  Just like any piece of art, you simply get a richer experience seeing the work in person,…
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