Kirstin

Welcome to the ViewFinders

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Join us at http://viewfinders.io Music is Keep Me Alive by All We Are

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Thanksgiving

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Thank you, Muses past and present, for your illumination and imagination. Thank you, guest posters, for your contributions and creativity....

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Farewell to the Mortal Muses

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It is with great regret that we have decided to say farewell to Mortal Muses at the end of this...

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Adventures with my T3

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  This year I’ve been doing a 365 on Tri-X film, so my trusty Contax Aria has always been loaded...

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Adventures in 19th-century photography

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Last month I spent a weekend doing “wet-plate collodion photography” course. As you may have noticed, I enjoy the challenge...

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Before and After: my iPhone processing tricks and tips

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When I post iPhone images on Instagram and Facebook I am often asked which apps I used to process them....

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Travelling Light

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When I got serious about photography I started carrying around some serious cameras: a Nikon D800 and then, when I...

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Seascapes

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This image was the first picture I ever took using Portra film in a medium-format camera. It seems appropriate that...

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Summer in black and white

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I took a peek at the Mobile Pool expecting to find summer colours. Instead I found monochrome black and white...

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My Decisive Moment

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I have always loved Paris. When I was young we used to go there every year, stopping off on the...

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Capturing the Mood

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This year I’ve moved on from diptychs and I’ve been working with larger groups of images. One way to do...

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Road Tripping with Staci and Andy Kennelly

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To celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary, Andy and I took an epic road trip through the Pacific North West. We...

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Adventures in Tri-X

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There’s something wonderfully timeless about black-and-white film photography. It’s what I shot my first film images with as a child,...

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Simply Steller

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In my previous post I talked about how much I was enjoying storytelling using Exposure, a website that makes it...

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Square Vision

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Oh my goodness! Your squares are all SO good. It’s been thrilling to look through them all. I’ve selected 4...

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Getting Some Exposure

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Having shot diptychs for a year I have been trying to move onto photo essays which tell more of a...

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April theme – Squares

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Lately I’ve been experimenting with some new formats with borrowed film cameras. I have particularly enjoyed the way these unfamiliar...

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Guest Muse: Xanthe Berkeley

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Filling the frame with bright colours, movement, sunshine and smiles, Xanthe‘s work centres around family life and adventures… A wide...

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Holiday Photo Rituals

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We have just returned from a wonderful week in Cape Town, a place we have not visited for five years....

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A Valentine to Film

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  Oh film, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1. I adore your beauty. (There may...

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