New site design
Any regular reader will notice that my photo blog has a different look this morning. Although I don’t like to mess with the layout or…
Blogging
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions – or where to host my site.
It was about a year ago that I moved my site from a wordpress domain, simonhawketts.wordpress.com to my own domain simonhawketts.com but at the time…
Film or Digital ?
Over the last 6 to 12 months it’s become more and more frequent that when I go anywhere to take pictures I will take along…
Which medium format camera ?
Ever since I started to have a renewed interest in film photography I’ve had the desire to own a medium format camera. I bought a…
Ricoh GXR A12 50mm black & white pictures
I read an article a few days ago about setting up the Ricoh GXR A12 50mm as a Leica M Monochrom camera replacement and, because it…
Pictures around Reading with a Ricoh GXR 28mm A12
A few months ago the office where I work moved from Stevenage where I live to Reading where I don’t. This means that my trips…
Epson v550 photo scanner first impressions.
This post is going to give my first impressions of the Epson V550 Photo scanner I’ve recently acquired. Background Over the last few months I’ve…
Some more Ricoh GXR shots
When we recently went to CentreParcs Woburn Forest I took a couple of film cameras along to experiment with film photography again for the first…
Ricoh GXR A12 28mm samples
I wrote recently about the new sensor units I bought from China for my Ricoh GXR camera body and followed it up with posts about…
The reality of mirrorless photography.
I bought my Sony Nex 6 mirrorless camera about a year ago now, and it’s given me some great service in that time having been…
The annoyance of scripted views
In August 2013 I wrote a post titled ‘What has happened to my wordpress views‘ which was bemoaning the fall away in my blog views…