I'm driving into the centre of Australia with a shitbox. All in the name of charity.

New Blog that I will updating for the next 2-3 weeks. I am about to take part in the shitbox rally where you drive a car worth less than $1500AUD from Uluru to the Goldcoast on unsealed roads. We are raising money for Cancer Research. www.doitforstu.com Feel free to follow along. And donate!

This is SPARTA! I buy an EOS300 to replace the stolen EOS33. It's not as good, but it does the job.

Synology doing its best to alienate its customers. Apparently all models pre 2025 are now at end of life. So no more updates. What the hell is wrong with them?!

I have come into possession of 2 rolls of Kodak EIR Ektachrome. I’m super excited to shoot it. Hive mind: what’s your advice? #believeinfilm

Why the hell are we normalising “ray ban” spy glasses? It’s fucking creepy. I don’t care if they’re from a brand name, I don’t want you to be secretly recording me for whatever purpose. Someone in the cafe was wearing them the other day and now I see them all over social media.

New Film who dis? I test out K200 in a boring and dry post about film testing and developing in D23r.

Melbourne Uni. Kentmere200 EI160 D23R 7Min.

Kentmere 200 developed for 7min in D23r. Scanned with NLP. It’s comment ok. Think I still prefer FP4 but Kentmere is alright.

No idea if I prefer the scanned neg or the darkroom printed version. Should I reprint? Help me decide!

I really like the acting in Strange new worlds. But what on earth is going on with the story lines in S3? It’s all some form of ROM COM style. It’s becoming unwatchable. Fleshing out a character doesn’t always have to include who do they want to sleep with. Spock has had 3 partners so far

Just ran my film print test and it would appear that Kentmere 200 in D23r should be shot at 160 (with my chem and dev style)

Testing testing with D23

Creeks a little, but gets the job done I live in Melbourne, Australia. It is currently early september 2025 as I write this and we are just coming out of winter into false spring (Melbourne has about 11 seasons, so we are about to enter the bit where we all think "Hooray winter is over" before the…

London Calling Ortho80 was fun when it came out, but with the way I used it, it was contrasty as hell.

My dog loves this spot Shot on FP4 with the Zeiss Ikon Nettar. D23r with 20% extra to increase contrast.

For this #fridayfavourites I’m entering this one of the Walkie Talkie. shot back in 2019/20 on Ilford Ortho80. Printed on MGdeluxe Pearl. Finally found the negatives so printed this week.

Less Man Ray, more Rayman.

London 2019 - Ilford Ortho 80 Printed on Ilford Multigrade Pearl

New Blog post about the difficulties I found prinitnig this image. Any feedback or advice, greatly appreciated.

Some of the first images from the new (to me) Nettar 517/16 Shot in Malmsbury VIC back in June

Camera food

Zeiss Ikon Nettar I owned a phenomenal camera. A little pocket folding 6x6 Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16. Genuinely, some of my favourite images were captured on that camera. Three guesses as to where this was taken It’s such a lightweight small camera that fits if your pocket, which makes it perfect…

Dear hive mind: Is this a backing paper issue? Delta 400 and it’s on all the images from the roll. It’s not water drying marks. It’s from a roll that got shipped over in a container so did not have optimal conditions for a year. Trying to figure out what the splodges are. @ilfordphoto.com

I have 27 muted words on Bsky. All politics or social justice issues. It’s not that I don’t care about them, I really do. But if we wouldn’t meet up and discuss those topics in real life, I don’t want to see it on my feed either. Im trying to heavily curate to just photography on here.

Wanganeen-Milera signs on www.saints.com.au/news/1867953 YES!! And $7 per membership means I signed the whole family up for $28. Insane. But also, domed my newborn for a life of disappointment

Hello to the bots that have just followed me. Suspicious that you have 1000s of followers but all your posts are just reposts of others

Tried to get my 4.5 year old to watch Back to the future with me last night. 10 minutes in and she says “turn it off daddy, I don’t like it” Unrelated note: 1 four year old, free to a good home.

First “For money” studio shoot done. Learned a lot of things. But now to save and backup all images, then start the culling!

When I was in the UK, @anilmistry.bsky.social got me hooked on Marrutt paper. Now I’m spending stupid amounts in postage costs to get it sent to Australia. It’s like a gateway drug!

@billthoo.bsky.social daughter wanted to see some of my “picture books” last night. Picked out Opaque Zine. Turned to some images of Sydney and she goes “ooo these are my favourite” I look at I’m like..hang on, they look like @billthoo.bsky.social work! And it was!! Daughter was very impressed.

Tech Bro on the 7:30 report trying to tell creatives that using their work for free to train should be fair use and they shouldn’t pay. Used the argument that new singers listen to old singers and get inspired. Sarah Fergusson said “Yes but at some point Bob Dylan got paid for his music”

MONSTER TRUCKS!!

Finally getting around to properly testing out NLP. Think I like it. Older photo from a night walk I did with @fotodudenz.bsky.social a while ago.

I took this back in 2023 and scanned it but hated the look. I then bought NLP the other day and figured I rescan and try it out on some negatives I hated. I now realise that part of my hatred was using a CPL on Kodak portra. It makes everything too saturated. Along with bad crunchy dev too I guess

A few years ago I went to a stone circle. I have no idea where it was. It could have been on my way to devon, or the Lake district…or maybe Scotland. If anyone recognises it, please tell me.

Occasionally I like to “stump up” a photo for this platform. #FP4 developed in D23r for 25% longer than it should have been but 🤷‍♂️.

My daughters cafe is way too expensive. I spent 100 dollar bucks and 100 monies and I was only allowed a marshmallow chai and scrambled eggs with apple crumble. 1/5 stars. Will be forced to eat here again.

Ok so 9 days ago I cleaned up and added extra storage to my NAS. I then got frustrated with how slow it was running and bought a new 4 bay enclosure (moahr storage!) I transferred my drives across forgetting that I formatted my external HDD that had the last year of photos and scans. I’m an idiot.

Yeah…I think I should have cleaned this out a while ago…

Telling my 4 year old daughter she is a big sister: Me: “Mummy had her baby today” E: Exicited face Me: “It’s a baby boy” E: “Oh but I wanted a sister, can you get tell the doctor I want a sister?” Me:”we can’t change it, it just happens” E:”yes you can, the doctor can change it” 😐🫢🤣

Today I became a Dad^2. Or Dad Squared. Baby boy, no name yet.

HELP! Backstory: This is a double exposure project with someone from the UK. They sent their roll (they previously exposed) with someone who flew over here and I shot my shots over the top. Only…something looks funky. Either mine are ridiculously over exposed or camera bust Did I screw this up?

Alt text it.

You delete one measly config file and suddenly you brick your Pi Hoke and internet. Damnit.

Whelp. I’ve just put myself out there for a studio day. Charging $50 for 15 min family portrait session for charity. I’ve done a few shoots in the past and all been low key, never for money…first time and I’m now petrified! Can’t fuck it up!

My dog can hear a possum fart 3 suburbs away but can’t hear a junky breaking into my car at 3am. That’s my EOS33 stolen (and iPad and Work Laptop but the EOS33 means more to me)

Attempted latte art. That was supposed to be a heart. But to be honest, I’ll take the win. (Hehe)

Now grinder to match. Yes, I’ve become one of those coffee wankers. And I’m loving it.

#smalltowninertia2 Done. Small Town Inertia 2 is sequenced & barring any last minute photographs I’m able to make it’s ready for print. Final tasks for me, check all the testimony, get the introductions in (from some very special people!) I’ll share pre-order info in a matter of weeks.