Melbourne Photography XII

My fourth autumn in Melbourne. My favourite season here due to the colourful trees, cooler temperatures, and the way the light hits on the landscape on accord of the sun sitting lower in the sky. From April through July I shot a couple of rolls of Portra 160 film with the Voigtlander 40mm and 58mm prime lenses. Selected here are photographs from a few day trips. On reflection, no grand landscapes. Instead, wide open apertures, shallow depth of field, and colourful scenes. A combination of …


Analog Photography Assistant - 1.1.0

Analog Photography Assistant

Analog Photography Assistant

Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. APA v1.1.0 is the first post-launch release and focuses on UX improvements and bug fixes. I got a lot of feedback from the folks in the 35mmc community ranging from requests to add additional f-stops and ISO …


Pine Smoke

I’ve just published Pine Smoke , an album of fifty-seven landscape photographs from the west of Tasmania.

Pine Smoke

Pine Smoke

This was my third trip to Tasmania, a place I like to visit because the climate and terrain remind me a lot of the South Island of New Zealand (home). On this trip I set out to photograph landscapes of industry – forestry, hydro …


Writing Software with LLMs

June 8 2025 · tech ai software-engineering apa

Over the last 6 months I created Analog Photography Assistant , an Android app to help photographers shoot old film cameras. The app provides a bunch of utilities such as measuring the amount of light in a scene, and a calculator to factor in the reciprocity failure characteristic of film.

Before this, I’d never written an Android application and the extent of my Kotlin experience was using the ungodly Kotlin DSL for Teamcity CI/CD pipelines. I’m now at the first major release of the …


Analog Photography Assistant - 1.0.1

Analog Photography Assistant

Analog Photography Assistant

Analog Photography Assistant is a free, ad-free, privacy-first app for film photographers. I wrote it for my own personal use, and have now released it on the Play Store . It has the following features:

  • Light Meter – meter scenes with your phone. Set the ISO of the film you’re using and get aperture …