Whilst on holiday with my parents in Bridgnorth a few years ago, we went to an Antiques Centre where I spotted an old Kodak Box Brownie in really good condition. You usually see these things dotted around in varying levels of condition and sometimes for ridiculous prices cos people think they're crazy valuable just cos they're old. But this one was both cheap and in good condition so I added it to the collection! My Six-20 Model D, as the name might suggest, took 620 roll film. Similar to 120 Me...
I've decided to start a pckt blog to document some of my photography adventures \ messing around with cameras, so seems only fitting really to start kinda from the beginning with my first film camera, my favourite camera, and the best film camera ever made... in my opinion... I first picked up an OM10 in 2008 cos I wanted to get into photography more seriously and I liked the idea of going back to film and shooting what, to me, felt like more traditional photos. I taught myself how it works by r...
Part of my Kingdom of the East Angles series.
The Kingdom of the East Angles was a small independent kingdom of the Angles in England dating from the 6th Century during the Anglo-Saxon period. It was made up from the now English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and part of Cambridgeshire and was one of seven kingdoms until it was absorbed into the Kingdom of England in the 10th Century. This is part of a larger on-going film-based project using a Holga camera explores the East Anglian landscape, picking up the traces of its historical legacy an...