The Darkroom – Part One

Black and white darkroom at Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin

I was thinking about develop and print my own film photos in a darkroom a long time. Film photography for now feels like climbing a mountain – the first half is shooting, as climbing a mountain from the bottom, actively seeking for the breathtaking sceneries, pressing the shutter or memorise them in your mind, there… Continue reading The Darkroom – Part One

Building this blog

Logging new content and changes made to this site. Feb 6 2022: added automatic translation with some degree of manual control in main menu (top right corner), for now added simplified Chinese. Having a multi-language blog/site is always what I wished. Feb 9 2022: Got a suggestion to add a mail notification to the commenter… Continue reading Building this blog

Unable to start/finish

Explanation for some addiction. This is what I wrote to myself on 19 November of 2021: I know why I am addicted to archery now. It is the feeling satisfaction when not fully prepared, not fully anchored, but when releasing, by luck, muscle memory or whatever you call it and yet the arrow still reached… Continue reading Unable to start/finish

Panoramics

The first time shooting panoramics (環景圖) using a soviet built Horizon 202 camera. The film used was Ilford Delta 3200 and shot at box speed. Some of photos still turned out to be underexposed, reason might be when measuring the light, the phone app went for artificial lights sources. A normal 135 roll of film… Continue reading Panoramics