This blog started in 2019. I didn’t know what it was going to be. I had photographs I wanted to write about, and thoughts about photography I wanted to test against actual words, and a vague sense that putting things down in public might make me take them more seriously.

Seven years later — over three hundred posts in — I still can’t fully explain what it is. It’s not a tutorial site, though I write about technique sometimes. It’s not a portfolio, though the photographs are here. It’s more like a notebook that got out of hand. A record of what I noticed, what I got wrong, what surprised me.

The Vendée. Nantes. A forest I keep going back to. An orchestra I’ve been photographing for three years. Cameras I’ve loved and one or two I haven’t. A book, eventually. Wrong turns that turned out to be the point.

I’m still here, still writing, still developing my own film in the kitchen. If you’ve been reading for a while, thank you — genuinely. If you’ve just found this place, the best place to start is here.

If you’d like to follow along, you can do that below. One post at a time, when it’s ready.

— Ian