Idle impressions on the Fujifilm GFX50S

If you follow me on Facebook, you’ll have seen this already. This one’s on the blog for posterity. Day 2 with the GFX: A couple of quick impressions from walking around and doing my usual kind of shooting, in my usual manner. I will say first that I have never used any kind of medium…More

8 – Cycles

Day 8 of 100, Singapore An early one today because I ended up going to bed at 5 am last night. I’m going to bed later and later these days, pre-empting jet lag in Europe – that’s the fun story, anyway. I crave the potent, enveloping silence of a sleeping world. In the course of…More

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Day 7 of 100, Singapore Still here. And this is not a gear review. Picked up a GFX 50S (two, really) from Fujifilm Asia Pacific today, which is headquartered here in Singapore. Favian Loo, divisional marketing manager, offered to loan Flemming and I one with three lenses for a week – to which we were…More

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Day 6 of 100, Singapore In my milk-teeth memories, the months around Christmas and the new year were when the monsoon shifted its wet, northeastern weight over the region, bringing weeks of moisture that ranged from light drizzle to torrential deluge. It is the season of respite from the bite of the equatorial warmth. Singapore…More

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Day 5 of 100, Singapore Greg’s comment in day 3’s post about keeping on, made me think of a snippet of a poem that a friend shared with me the other day. What we need most, we learn from the menial tasks: the novice raking sand in Buddhist texts, or sweeping leaves, his hands chilled…More

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Day 4 of 100, Singapore And then, the crash. You recluses out there know what I’m talking about don’t you? The abrasion of so many eyes (whether intended or not). The blow by blow 300% enlarged, curling tighter and tighter inwards, against the risk of shatter. We might be weird, but we’re imaginative. We’ve tuned…More

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Day 3 of 100, Singapore Flemming and I attended the local Fujifilm launch of their three new cameras this evening. Still smarting from the whole debacle with the airline for Sunday’s flight, we’ve decided to add some vodka to that lemon of a situation, and make the best of our additional time here. I’ve genuinely…More

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Day 2 of 100, Singapore I started this Hundred Day Diary thing as an encouragement to write. About anything, no matter how silly, or mundane. I began blogging in 1998, enjoying the revelation of getting something I made out in public. Along with that have come the lessons of getting work in public (which I…More

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Day 1 of 100, Singapore Well, that went well. Once in a while, flying has goes utterly pear shaped. Sunday night’s flight to Copenhagen didn’t happen after all, because junior airline staff, whose only jobs are to check passengers and baggage in compliantly, tried to play customs officers. As a result, I couldn’t get on…More

No. 17, home

The misses: -steps, -demeanors, -understandings. The route, too circuitous. The choices, wrong. Somehow, we arrive.More

On returning home

Singapore Home is so often the hardest place to return to. As I celebrate 4 years on the road, I’ve noted feeling something suspiciously akin to gladness at being in Singapore. This is unusual for me, given the isolation of coming back to empty spaces of friends and family who have left, sets in too…More

#hersideoftheroad, an Instagram project with @womeninstreet

I kick started a new project on Instagram this year with Her Side Of The Street, a fabulous global community of street photographers. My first inkling that a community like this existed, was when I linked to this list, in a post I wrote about my own work. Many months later, by sheer accident, I…More

A change of tide?

​I mark 4 years of this nomad life in a few days. I’ve always celebrated this particular anniversary in the hardest place to travel: back home. January is a difficult month. This January has been different though. I marked the first day of 2017 with friends I missed, and went to fetch Flemming from the…More