Happy New Year!
For 2026 I’ve decided to undertake a weekly project to keep me active and engaged with photography between trips. I found last year that outside of work shoots I would rarely pick my camera up while at home or day to day, which was leading to me feeling far less interested in photography.
To combat this in 2026 I’ve picked up a small every day carry camera and will be assessing the photos I took that week and picking a favourite to write a short piece around why and how I shot it, and why it’s my favourite shot from that week.
While I primarily shoot on Fuji cameras, I’ve been carrying the Canon EOS M6 with a 22mm f2 pancake lens for the last few months for daily/EDC use, trying to capture more day to day photos. I’ve effectively used it as a poor mans Ricoh GR4, that I don’t mind chucking in a bag and being a little less precious with. Over Christmas I adapted my old Olympus film era lenses to use on the M series body, which was originally for a bit of novelty value but ended up being used to shoot some of my favourite recent photos.
Kicking off the year is this portrait of my wife Hannah. It’s very different from my usual cityscape personal work but was a really fun image to shoot, and made for a nice personal print. I like how the vintage lens renders a sharp image but not clinically sharp, making it perfectly imperfect for flattering and appealing portraits.
This shot was shot on an afternoon dog walk during golden hour at Winfell Quarry, and taken on the Canon EOS M6 using the Olympus Zuiko OM 35mm F2.8 lens, shot at f4 and post processed in Adobe Lightroom.