West Gate - Melbourne Photography XV
A morning of photography walking the streets under the West Gate Bridge. Here the Yarra River meets Port Phillip, and petrol terminals line the shore.

A morning of photography walking the streets under the West Gate Bridge. Here the Yarra River meets Port Phillip, and petrol terminals line the shore.

Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.3.0 with a bunch of new features and updates. The greatest hits are listed below, otherwise read the changelog for more detailed notes.
Aperture Sets and Exposure Compensation have been added to the Light Meter.
Aperture Sets allow you to define named collections of f-stops you want …
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 …