The horizon ahead, partially obscured by snow and cloud, swayed unsteadily from side to side, up and down, never level and never still.

Each and every camera and lens has had its quirks, unique foibles, frustrations and brilliance.

When I first started photography, way back in the early 2000s, I primarily learnt what I was doing using an old SLR camera with Ilford HP5 400 ISO film stock. This is a classic black and white film, used by countless millions. Back then it cost an almost unbelievable 50p per roll for 36 images. At least that’s what I remember. Good luck finding anything for 50p now! 400 ISO has a pleasing grain to it, and was considered ‘standard’ for most applications. Generally, 3200 was th

I was surprised by the detail and general accuracy it has generated…

I grew up in a post-industrial city; a city once home to over 1,000 trades and known as the workshop of the world. The Industrial Revolution was born on the same streets I would walk, and the modern world owes a lot of its existence to my hometown. But, by the 2000s, all that was long-gone. Globalisation had steadily syphoned off the heavy industries to cheaper countries. New technologies and sciences replaced the old, dirty production lines, and slowly the factories, worksho

A Challenger 2 Tank of the Queen's Royal Hussars deploys a smokescreen on Salisbury Plain On a particularly cold December morning, I...

When I took the above photograph, just before pressing the shutter I had a (not uncommon) moment of self-doubt, worried if what I was...

I took this photograph in 2013 in central London. And haven't thought about it much since. Until stumbling across it in a folder recently....