Category Archives: Film

Holiday Snaps (lazy blogging)

Posted on 23 December 2014 by Richard Wintle

In my usual way, with the Christmas break in full sway, I’ll more or less finish of the year with some lazy photo blogging. First up: Toronto’s Eaton Centre with the 1937 camera: And here’s Jill Barber, the mystery holiday … Continue reading →

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Creativity – mixing it up

Posted on 9 December 2014 by Frank Norman

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had cause to celebrate dramatic creativity in various forms, mixed and mingled. I’ve seen one film and two musicals; two with a biographical bent and one with a (fictional) scientific bent. Two weeks … Continue reading →

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Snapped and Snatched

Posted on 5 September 2013 by Richard Wintle

Recently, I lost my camera. A photographer and somebody else’s Nikon. Fortunately, I got it back, but not after the young photographer pictured above was done with it.

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My old new little friend – the Voigtländer VF-101

Posted on 6 May 2013 by Richard Wintle

Oh, goodness me. I’ve gone and bought a handful of old film cameras on Ebay. Six, exactly – purchased on the cheap with the understanding that they might not work. I think I’ve done alright – three apparently just fine, … Continue reading →

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More Monochrome – Toronto’s Spadina Avenue

Posted on 16 February 2013 by Richard Wintle

For the second time, I’ve been featured in a gallery on the website of popular photography magazine, Popular Photography (see what I did there?). So it’s time for some more shameless bragging, tempered with a mild introduction to one of … Continue reading →

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Chuffed

Posted on 9 December 2012 by Richard Wintle

Time to brag a little, I think. Lazily flipping through the content on the website of Popular Photography, my new favourite magazine, I was tickled pink to come across this: The two or three of you who read this blog … Continue reading →

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A New Angle of View, Part II

Posted on 28 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

Yes, I’m at it again. Hot on the heels of my acquisition, via the twenty-first-century e-commerce miracle that is Ebay, of a medium format film camera from 1937, I’ve spent another ten dollars (plus rather more for shipping) on another … Continue reading →

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A New Angle of View

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Richard Wintle

Late in the year just past, I bought myself a present. And I used Ebay for the first time. Richard’s entered the twenty-first century, and yes, folks, that is the first horseman you see galloping over the horizon. Well, not … Continue reading →

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I’m a Scientist – making the film

Posted on 19 September 2011 by Stephen

Today sees the release of my new film: I’m a Scientist. It’s about scientists. Please take a look either here, or on the web-site that I have created specially for it*.

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Science Education Then and Now

Posted on 4 September 2011 by Steve Caplan

I can still vividly remember being taught lab safety in 7th or 8th grade chemistry at school. The old way: being given a long list of rules, reading them and being tested on them. No eating, drinking, chewing gum etc. … Continue reading →

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