During COVID, I decided I wanted a Canon film camera, since I loved using my G7X Mk II so much, so decided to scour eBay and ended up buying a Canon Snappy EL for fairly cheap! It was the first camera I used coming out of lockdown and those first 2 photos above are of my brothers enjoying their first takeaway coffee following COVID-19 lockdown lifting, and of my now fiancée with me at Foxes Farm Produce going pumpkin picking. I also carried it around with me going back to work, and whilst fairly...
The huge variety of chocolatiers & sweet stores was amazing in Brugge & this storefront was impressive.
I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was "they were never cool." But I read on to see his perspective. While I and many others serve as proof that asserting that "everyone does it" is flippant, he does offer a...
Arriving in Ghent yesterday for a few days break, the tall, narrow buildings in the residential parts are striking with quite a lot of street art. We’re staying close to the university quarter which is a pretty laid-back area.
taken on 2026-07-19 Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spiegel/55402881987/ 松江市内の公園でソフトクリームを食べてたら鳩が寄ってくる寄ってくる。これ絶対に誰か餌付けしてるだろ。やらんよ!
The second part of the collection of photos I took during my trip to Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
Part one of my trip to Tokyo in Jun 2025 (there was a lot worth taking a photo of!)
Whilst on holiday with my parents in Bridgnorth, I found a really nice looking Kodak Box Brownie in an Antiques Centre. There's alot of them out there in varying conditions, but this one looked really nice, wasn't too expensive, and I hadn't used one before so I picked it up! I dated to somewhere after 1953 making it a seventy year old camera! And it took 620 film which, at the time was specially produced for the Box Brownies but thanks to the folks at Film Photography Project you can now get fr...
Laguna is a province just southeast of Manila and Laguna de Bay, in the Philippines.