I spent last weekend shooting in Fremantle on a Leica Akademie workshop with Jesse Marlow.

Jesse was a fantastic coach and guide.

I had a wicked time and managed to get a few keepers to boot.

It’s great to see Noah’s work collected again.

I finished my black and white photo a day in 2025 project yesterday.

I only had one close call when I forgot to take a photo but still managed to find one on my phone camera roll that I could use.

I enjoyed how the project forced me to practice shooting more often.

I think I’ll get the photos printed up into a book.

Some wonderful photos, like this one by Nichole Ayers.

I’m over 100 days into my black & white a day project.

I inevitably end up shooting around the house and neighbourhood most days. This is forcing me to find novel perspectives on things I regularly pass. It’s also making me appreciate the different light over the course of the day.

Some days I struggle to get something good. That’s ok, photography, like most things, is a numbers game.

Love that Fuji decided to jam that 100S sensor into a rangefinder form factor.

This new camera is getting linked all over the place. I like the minimalist industrial design.

Loads of internal storage instead of SD cards makes sense.

The feature walkthrough video is worth a watch.

YouTube has so many interviews with great photographers these days.

I’m taking on a 365 photo challenge this year: capturing at least one black and white photo each day and adding it to my journal.

I haven’t focused on black and white photography since parting with my film cameras, so I’m excited to get back into it and hopefully improve.

Six days in, and I’m enjoying it so far.

I’ve been giving Photomator a try for photo post-processing and it’s great.

I enjoy having the masking, healing, and rich editing features of Lightroom¹ in software that works natively with my Apple Photos library².

In effect, it replaces Darkroom and TouchRetouch for editing my native iPhone photos. If things get a bit tough to sort with my thumbs I can switch over the mac version of the software and everything is synced up.

Hopefully Apple keep the core experience the same now that they’ve acquired it.

My photo book tour continues with Australian Lustre.

Reading it transports me to every country town I’ve ever visited.

I enjoyed the juxtaposition of big things and suburbia the most.

It’s undeniably Australian and well worth a look.

I’m working on reading more photography books.

So, yesterday, I grabbed Colin Greenwood’s How to Disappear while I was out and about¹.

Colin gets some great candids of the recording and touring experience.

His collection of photos is another ode to the power of a plastic Yashica T4.

The side-by-side comparison between a standard M and the redesign is fascinating.

Looks like Fuji continues to improve the autofocus and in-body image stabilization on these larger sensor cameras.

I love my GFX100S but this review is triggering upgrade vibes in me.

Some incredible work.

(via Kottke)

The latest version of Photoshop Beta now includes a feature called generative fill.

I can imagine it’s easy to compromise the authenticity in your photography if you overuse these kinds of tools. With that said, and I know it’s potentially a slippery slide, there are situations where they can be incredibly useful.

For instance, I sometimes want to adjust a crop and need to fill in some areas to maintain the balance of the composition, and my Photoshop pixel-surfing chops aren’t up to the task.

I had a crack at using generative fill on a photo I recently took that I wished had more foreground.

The results look usable.

I also tried a prompt that removed the shadow on the left but the results of that were less natural.

Experimenting with various prompts and browsing their outcomes is far more enjoyable than swearing at the healing and clone brush tools 😂.

Years of rumours come to an end. It looks like a nice improvement over the Q2.

Folks seem down on the tiltable screen. I find that to be pretty useful feature on my GFX 100S so I reckon I’d dig it.

Leica’s industrial design is still number one in my book¹ but it’s always fun to see new interpretations and approaches to camera design.

The L16 replaces one big lens with 16 small ones and combines the images via software.

The old clustering of commodity hardware with software approach keeps on popping up in different contexts.

Recreating shots from films.