I’ve made some changes to a couple of photo albums on the website. southern-mountains features the same grainy black and white photographs from the South island taken in 2024, but I’ve re-edited them to add more punch.
The photographs are shot on Ilford HP5+ film, which gave me a film negative with a wide …
The Sutton landscape summons me to Rohan in The Lord of the Rings. Golden grasses and jagged schist cover the landscape. These seemingly go on forever, until they hit the Rock and Pillar Range in the northwest which always stands in shadow at this time of the day.
I wanted to be at Pukerangi to shoot the railway shelter illuminated by the …
The Taieri River starts in the Lammerlaw Range, flows north through the Maniototo Plain, before taking a sharp turn south down the Strath Taieri and Taieri Plain into the Pacific Ocean. The 1860s brought a gold rush to Otago, and while sites along the Taieri …
Two rolls of black and white film and two ideas: shooting a lens wide open at f/1.4, and double exposures.
Shooting the Voigtlander 58mm lens at f/1.4 gives images a unique look. The images lack contrast, …