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…
Developing medium format film
Last week I wrote a post about my Ensign Selfix 1620 folding camera and mentioned in that post how I’d loaded it with some FP4+…
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…
Pictures from Stratford-on-Avon
When we went to Gloucestershire in the summer we visited Stratford-on-Avon where I took some pictures with both my Pentax K5 DSLR and my Minolta…
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…
Snowshill Manor National Trust pictures
When we stayed in Gloucestershire recently one of the places we visited was Snowshill Manor house which is a national trust property and this post…
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…
Post-processing film scans in Lightroom
A couple of years ago I wrote a post which described the steps I normally take when post processing pictures in Lightroom. The procedures I…
Flowers shot on film
I’ve been using film cameras quite a bit over the last few weeks and I’ve collected together some pictures which all share the same subject…
