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, …

Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.2.0 which introduces a Depth of Field Calculator . With this you can calculate:

• DoF from the film plane — The nearest and farthest points that will be acceptably sharp, measured from the film plane.
• DoF from the subject — How far the zone of acceptable sharpness extends in front of and behind your focus point.
• Hyperfocal …

Books discovered in Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound that were previously redacted by U.S. Intelligence ^[1].

• Start with Why - Simon Sinek
• Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• Intentional: How to Finish What You Start - Chris Bailey
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
• Indistractable - Nir Eyal
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• Good to Great - Jim …