Iain Gilmour
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Hovis Café Another watercolour rather than photography this week though I’ve arrived at attempting Geoff Kersey’s Hovis Café tutorial rather later than planned — it was his final lesson of 2024. The reference photo isn’t exactly bursting with charm: a dull day, flat light, and not much sparkle.…
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Hovis Café
Another watercolour rather than photography this week though I’ve arrived at attempting Geoff Kersey’s Hovis Café tutorial rather later than planned — it was his final lesson of 2024. The reference photo isn’t exactly bursting with charm: a dull day, flat light, and not much sparkle. But that’s precisely the challenge Geoff sets — taking a muted scene and coaxing something far more colourful and appealing out of it. The title refers to the fact that the cottage was once a café sporting a sign for Hovis bread. My own effort had its moments.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/11/26/hovis-cafe/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Farm near St John’s in the Vale Cumbria After a summer break, I’ve found myself drifting back to doing some watercolours as the evenings start closing in. It seems to have become a bit of a seasonal ritual: the clocks go back, the kettle goes on, and suddenly a block of Arches and a fresh Geoff…
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Farm near St John’s in the Vale Cumbria
After a summer break, I’ve found myself drifting back to doing some watercolours as the evenings start closing in. It seems to have become a bit of a seasonal ritual: the clocks go back, the kettle goes on, and suddenly a block of Arches and a fresh Geoff Kersey tutorial begin to look very inviting. This time the subject was Farm near St John’s in the Vale, Cumbria—a quietly beautiful scene with that mix of soft light and rural texture Geoff does so well. His guidance eased me back into the swing of things, even if the first few washes felt a little rusty after a hiatus.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/11/17/farm-near-st-johns-in-the-vale-cumbria/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
19 days ago
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Frames from the Footplate This small collection of images comes from a handful of heritage railways I’ve visited in England, the US and France. The engines may be the main attraction, but I’ve always been just as interested in the people who keep everything running. I’m not a proper train spotter…
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Frames from the Footplate
This small collection of images comes from a handful of heritage railways I’ve visited in England, the US and France. The engines may be the main attraction, but I’ve always been just as interested in the people who keep everything running. I’m not a proper train spotter by any stretch. Put me next to a locomotive and I’m far more likely to notice the light catching the metalwork than confidently announce whether it’s a Pacific or simply “the red one that goes chuff.”
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/11/14/frames-from-the-footplate/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
22 days ago
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Photojournalism News
29 days ago
MSNBC: 'There is a human being behind the camera': New doc focuses on life of award-winning photojournalist
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'There is a human being behind the camera': New doc focuses on life of award-winning photojournalist
The new National Geographic documentary 'Love+War' focuses on the life of award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario. Addario and David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee join Morning Jo...
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-there-is-a-human-being-behind-the-camera-new-doc-focuses-on-life-of-award-winning-photojournalist-251479109783
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A Shore Fit for Myths The “Côte des Légendes” — or, sometimes more poetically, the Pagan Coast — sounds like something from a Breton ballad, and in many ways it feels that way. Stretching along the north of Brittany between Meneham and Amiets-Plage, this rugged stretch of shoreline is a place…
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A Shore Fit for Myths
The “Côte des Légendes” — or, sometimes more poetically, the Pagan Coast — sounds like something from a Breton ballad, and in many ways it feels that way. Stretching along the north of Brittany between Meneham and Amiets-Plage, this rugged stretch of shoreline is a place where granite and myth share equal billing, and where the weather seems to have a mind entirely of its own. The skies here are gloriously indecisive. One moment, a heavy overcast flattens sea and stone into a study in greys; the next, sunlight bursts through in sudden, brilliant shafts, turning the granite outcrops into sculptures of light.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/11/05/under-pagan-skies/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 1 month ago
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A day trip to Blue Hill,
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and a visit to the Jud Hartmann studio and gallery.
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Blue Hill, Maine — JWSmithPhotography
A day trip to Blue Hill, Maine and the Jud Hartmann studio
https://www.jwsmithphoto.com/blog/blue-hill-maine
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Corps de Gardes, Meneham
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Fish and Fiddles — Honfleur’s Fête de la Coquille et de la Pêche Honfleur has a way of reeling you in. It’s not just the postcard harbour or the light on the water — though that helps — it’s the tangle of cobbled lanes, the crooked timbered houses, and the sense that it’s still a proper working…
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Fish and Fiddles — Honfleur’s Fête de la Coquille et de la Pêche
Honfleur has a way of reeling you in. It’s not just the postcard harbour or the light on the water — though that helps — it’s the tangle of cobbled lanes, the crooked timbered houses, and the sense that it’s still a proper working port beneath all the charm. We stopped off there on the way back along the coast after a week in Brittany. Just a short wander through the old streets — enough to stretch the legs and build an appetite — before heading to our favourite restaurant. The place was already packed, …
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/11/02/fish-and-fiddles-honfleurs-fete-de-la-coquille-et-de-la-peche/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 1 month ago
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To the Lighthouse
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Le Pays pagan
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Sunday Colour Supplement – Autumn in the Fens I don’t often venture into colour, in fact this is the first colour post on this resurrected version of my blog. Most of the time I’m quite content in the company of blacks, whites, and the greys in between. But every now and then a place insists on…
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Sunday Colour Supplement – Autumn in the Fens
I don’t often venture into colour, in fact this is the first colour post on this resurrected version of my blog. Most of the time I’m quite content in the company of blacks, whites, and the greys in between. But every now and then a place insists on being seen in colour, and Holme Fen in Autumn, tucked away in Cambridgeshire, was one of those places. It was a cool autumn day when we stopped off last Tuesday, the sort that sits on the edge of something wilder — the next named storm was already swirling its way across the forecasts.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/10/26/colour-supplement-silver-birch-and-copper-light/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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Corps de Garde des Amiets, Bretagne
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The Shape of Time
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Entre Marée et Mémoire: Rostellec’s Boat Graveyard I’d known about the Cimetière de Bateaux de Rostellec long before our recent trip to Brittany — one of those places that quietly lodges in the back of your mind. Weathered timbers, a name that sounds like a photograph — it had been on my list for…
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Entre Marée et Mémoire: Rostellec’s Boat Graveyard
I’d known about the Cimetière de Bateaux de Rostellec long before our recent trip to Brittany — one of those places that quietly lodges in the back of your mind. Weathered timbers, a name that sounds like a photograph — it had been on my list for a while. The more I read about its history, the more it intrigued me. It’s been photographed countless times, yet its story — at least in English — is rarely told. I began to wonder if I could share some of that history while trying to capture something of what still remains.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/10/20/entre-maree-et-memoire-rostellecs-boat-graveyard/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 2 months ago
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A bend in the path - a rare (for me) colour image from a stroll along the banks of the Grand Union Canal.
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about 2 months ago
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La Maison de garde des Amiets, Bretagne
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about 2 months ago
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Thirty Seconds in Finistère Brittany has long been a magnet for artists and photographers — the meeting of sea and sky, the rugged beauty, shifting light, and the drama of storms rolling in from the Atlantic. Among those who have captured its spirit are Jean Guichard, best known for his images of…
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Thirty Seconds in Finistère
Brittany has long been a magnet for artists and photographers — the meeting of sea and sky, the rugged beauty, shifting light, and the drama of storms rolling in from the Atlantic. Among those who have captured its spirit are Jean Guichard, best known for his images of the La Jument lighthouse during storms, where waves crash and human scale is utterly dwarfed by nature, and Philip Plisson, whose work celebrates the gentler side of the Breton seascape — lighthouses, changing light, and enduring maritime traditions. Together, their work defines much of how we see the Breton coast: dramatic yet deeply human, shaped by both weather and memory.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/10/16/thirty-seconds-in-finistere/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
about 2 months ago
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Phare de Pontusval, Bretagne
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about 2 months ago
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A great video of a photowalk around somewhere I lived for 25 years.
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Medium format photography | Milton Keynes | The urban landscape | Fujifilm GFX | Street Photography
YouTube video by John Wildgoose
https://youtu.be/qZuDBh_IiPc?si=LioSULZutsUDg87M
about 2 months ago
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Phare de Pontusval, Bretagne
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about 2 months ago
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Photographing Trinant in the Preseli Hills Something I don't usually do is to share an old post, this one is from 2010. However, as this week's monochrome-madness challenge, set by Sarah from Travel with me is "ruins" and as I have an entire portfolio on abandoned buildings I thought I'd pick out…
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Photographing Trinant in the Preseli Hills
Something I don't usually do is to share an old post, this one is from 2010. However, as this week's monochrome-madness challenge, set by Sarah from Travel with me is "ruins" and as I have an entire portfolio on abandoned buildings I thought I'd pick out one of my favourite locations visited back in 2010 and add a few more images to it. The farmhouse in these images has now fallen into even more disrepair, the roof having collapsed some years ago. We’d been aware of Trinant for a while—a derelict farmhouse and its corrugated barn tucked into Mynydd-du Commin near Rosebush in Pembrokeshire.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/10/01/photographing-trinant-in-the-preseli-hills/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
2 months ago
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Art on Hwy 380, Near Aspermont, Texas
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Towpath Tales
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A Grainy Day in Rural Rotterdam Last friday was one of those real f/5.6 days – flat light, barely a breath of wind, the kind of weather that inspires about as much enthusiasm as a 1970s British Rail sandwich. Still, it felt good enough to get back to the canal project, so I set my sights on…
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A Grainy Day in Rural Rotterdam
Last friday was one of those real f/5.6 days – flat light, barely a breath of wind, the kind of weather that inspires about as much enthusiasm as a 1970s British Rail sandwich. Still, it felt good enough to get back to the canal project, so I set my sights on Shardlow, long regarded as one of the UK’s most complete canal ports, where the Trent and Mersey Canal meets the River Trent. Olympus OM-1N, F.Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f1.8, Ilford HP5 Plus 400, Ilfotec DD-X It’s strange to think of it now, but this quiet Derbyshire village was once nicknamed the “Rural Rotterdam.” At its peak in the early 19th century, more than fifty warehouses and yards crowded the water’s edge.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/09/28/a-grainy-day-in-rural-rotterdam/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
2 months ago
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Former Stevens' No.1 warehouse at Shardlow inland port on the Trent and Mersey canal. Olympus OM-1N, Zuiko Auto-W 28mm f2.8, Ilford HP5 Plus, Ilfotec DD-X
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Great images from Mull and Iona
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The Isles of Mull and Iona – Part two ….. Capturing the spirit of place
White Strand of the Monks, Isle of Iona There are so many facets to these isles, to the point that trying to capture the spirit of the place with just a handful of images can’t possibly do it justi…
https://alanfrostphotography.com/2025/09/25/the-isles-of-mull-and-iona-part-two-capturing-the-spirit-of-place/
2 months ago
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Lyddington Bede House, Rutland
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The Ikoflex II: A Zeiss Ikon TLR Pioneer This is the first of a short series of posts on vintage cameras from my small collection, I'm starting with the Zeiss Ikoflex II that holds a special place in my vintage camera collection as an example Zeiss Ikon’s foray into twin-lens reflex cameras, first…
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The Ikoflex II: A Zeiss Ikon TLRÂ Pioneer
This is the first of a short series of posts on vintage cameras from my small collection, I'm starting with the Zeiss Ikoflex II that holds a special place in my vintage camera collection as an example Zeiss Ikon’s foray into twin-lens reflex cameras, first introduced in 1934. My example, carrying the body serial number B15039, apparently dates from around 1935. Zeiss Ikoflex II with 8 cm Novar taking lens and Klio shutter The Ikoflex was Zeiss Ikon’s answer to the Rolleiflex, which had already established the TLR as a serious tool for medium format photography.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/09/20/the-ikoflex-ii-a-zeiss-ikon-tlr-pioneer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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Clutter, Contrast, and the Hastings Fishing Fleet We recently spent an enjoyable hour or so wandering among the fishing boats and clutter of Hastings beach with a couple of rolls of FP4+ tucked in the bag. I've been shooting film more often of late and there’s something about using film in a place…
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Clutter, Contrast, and the Hastings Fishing Fleet
We recently spent an enjoyable hour or so wandering among the fishing boats and clutter of Hastings beach with a couple of rolls of FP4+ tucked in the bag. I've been shooting film more often of late and there’s something about using film in a place like this that feels right: the measured pace, the small rituals of winding on and checking the frame counter, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing you won’t see the results until later. Hastings, with its jumble of history, grit, and working seafront, seems to reward that kind of slow looking.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/09/16/clutter-contrast-and-the-hastings-fishing-fleet/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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Hastings Fishing Fleet - Olympus OM-2N | Olympus Zuiko Auto-W 28mm f2.8 | Ilford FP4 Plus 125
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3 months ago
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Towpath Tales World Photography Day on the 19th of August, commemorates the day in 1839 when the French government officially gave the world the daguerreotype process as a “gift to humanity.” Depending on how you count, it now seems to stretch into “World Photography Week,” which is sometimes two…
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Towpath Tales
World Photography Day on the 19th of August, commemorates the day in 1839 when the French government officially gave the world the daguerreotype process as a “gift to humanity.” Depending on how you count, it now seems to stretch into “World Photography Week,” which is sometimes two weeks. The important bit is that it’s a chance to celebrate the medium—whether digital, analogue, or somewhere in between. This year brought an extra reason to pick up a camera. In May, Harman—the company behind Ilford—released a brand-new black-and-white film stock: Kentmere Pan 200.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/09/10/towpath-tales/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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Towpath Tales #1 - Olympus OM-2N | Zuiko Auto-T 100mm f2.8 | Kentmere Pan 200
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Canalside Candids - Olympus OM-2N, E.Zuiko Auto-S 100mm f2.8, Kentmere Pan 200, Kodak XTOL
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3 months ago
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Sometimes square is just better.
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Argyrotypes: Silver Prints and Herschel’s Legacy I’ve recently been exploring argyrotype printing, a modern reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century salt print. The process offers a freedom that complements my work on industrial heritage, allowing me to emphasise texture, light, and form in ways…
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Argyrotypes: Silver Prints and Herschel’s Legacy
I’ve recently been exploring argyrotype printing, a modern reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century salt print. The process offers a freedom that complements my work on industrial heritage, allowing me to emphasise texture, light, and form in ways modern printing rarely can. I’m using the Fotospeed Argyrotype Kit, which introduces the materials and methods developed by Mike Ware in the 1990s—a safer and more reliable refinement of Sir John Herschel’s original silver salt chemistry. The technique involves coating paper with ferric salts, which, when exposed to ultraviolet light, undergo a photochemical reaction that reduces silver ions to finely divided metallic silver embedded in the fibres.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/09/02/argyrotypes-silver-prints-and-herschels-legacy/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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Abandoned Motorcycle - argyrotype 10x7" on Arches Aquarelle Hot Pressed watercolour paper.
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3 months ago
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Welsh Mountain Ponies, Ynys Llanddwyn
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Narrowboats and Notifications
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Rust, Reflections, and Remnants: A Photowalk at Ellesmere Port I love places steeped in history, where the echoes of the past resound through the very fabric of the buildings and the air carries the scent of forgotten industries. of industry linger in the air. The National Waterways Museum at…
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Rust, Reflections, and Remnants: A Photowalk at Ellesmere Port
I love places steeped in history, where the echoes of the past resound through the very fabric of the buildings and the air carries the scent of forgotten industries. of industry linger in the air. The National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port is one of those rare locations: a former working dock, now open-air museum, and part quiet graveyard—it makes for a wonderfully atmospheric photowalk. Fujifilm X-T5 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR II at f/8, 1/90 sec, ISO 125. Ellesmere Port came to life thanks to Thomas Telford and William Jessop, who, back in the late 1700s, planned a canal to link the Shropshire Union Canal with the River Mersey.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/08/24/rust-reflections-and-remnants-a-photowalk-at-ellesmere-port/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
3 months ago
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Clyde Puffer - argyrotype 10x7" on Arches Aquarelle Hot Pressed watercolour paper.
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3 months ago
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Porters Row
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3 months ago
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Blurring the Lines For Leanne Cole's latest Monochrome Madness challenge, the theme is movement—a deceptively simple word that, in photography, opens the door to all sorts of creative mischief, especially of the sort that lets you smear, streak, and drift the world around you. As it's officially…
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Blurring the Lines
For Leanne Cole's latest Monochrome Madness challenge, the theme is movement—a deceptively simple word that, in photography, opens the door to all sorts of creative mischief, especially of the sort that lets you smear, streak, and drift the world around you. As it's officially world photography day, it would seem a pity not to participate. My chosen images focus on the blur—those moments where the subject slips away and the camera politely refuses to keep up. People become ghostlike smudges, hinting at their presence rather than proclaiming it. Water turns to silk, light spilling across its surface like ink bleeding through paper.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/08/19/blurring-the-lines/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Eryngium alpinum - a fascinating plant, not without its challenges to photograph.
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4 months ago
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A photographer who told the story of Italy for over half a century.
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Addio a Berengo Gardin: artigiano della fotografia, tra i piĂą grandi del Novecento
Aveva 94 anni. Un maestro dell'umanesimo fotografico, capace di raccontare il nostro Paese (e Venezia in particolare) con onestĂ , delicatezza e poesia
https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2025/08/addio-a-berengo-gardin-uno-dei-piu-grandi-fotografi-italiani-del-novecento-dae432b7-1e40-4307-9f08-abcc249647f0.html
4 months ago
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Normally use Canson Baryta Photographique II, but since they don’t do square papers, I’m giving FotoSpeed Platinum Baryta 12x12 a go. This sunflower felt like a fitting first print.
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4 months ago
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Not My Usual Angle – Monochrome Madness Challenge I thought I'd post a few images for Leanne Cole's Monochrome Madness theme (#40) for this week, set by Brian from Bushboy’s World—any subject backlit—though a challenge it certainly is. Not that backlighting is rare per se, but finding monochrome…
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Not My Usual Angle – Monochrome Madness Challenge
I thought I'd post a few images for Leanne Cole's Monochrome Madness theme (#40) for this week, set by Brian from Bushboy’s World—any subject backlit—though a challenge it certainly is. Not that backlighting is rare per se, but finding monochrome images where it genuinely enhances the shot had me digging into the archives without too much success. I suspect, like many photographers, I tend to avoid backlighting yet it can be a wonderful creative tool. My first image is of a cyclist weaving through the early morning light in Bruges in spring last year.
http://iaingilmour.com/2025/08/06/backlit-and-bold-monochrome-madness-challenge/
4 months ago
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