Category Archives: equipment

Scanning Film – Fighting Against Curled Film

For all of my home scanning needs, I am currently using an Epson V700 flatbed scanner. The great thing about this scanner model is that it can scan any format film that I choose to shoot. The not so great thing about it, is that the factory issued film holders completely suck at holding 35mm negatives flat […]

ancient snowflake photo’s

If for some reason you didn’t believe no two snowflakes were alike, here’s your proof. In 1885, Wilson A. Bentley successfully photographed over 5,000 snowflakes by attaching a camera to a microscope (and in turn honing the field of Photomicrography). His photographs supported his and others’ beliefs that all snowflakes were unique. Bentley become fascinated […]

Conserving the expedition bases left by the Antarctic explorers

At the turn of the twentieth century Antarctica was the focus of one of the last great races of exploration and discovery. The heroic era of Antarctic exploration (1895 – 1917) gave us Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Falcon Scott, names now synonymous with Antarctic adventure and the values of discovery, adventure and endurance. […]

Portraits of Fisherwomen in the Past

Three Scottish herring girls knitting whilst waiting for the arrival of the fishing fleet at Great Yarmouth in England, 1929. Thousands of women travel from Scotland to Great Yarmouth to process the catch during the autumn herring season. (Photo by Topical Press Agency)   A Sami woman wearing a thick fur coat fishes through a […]