The Viewfinder Diary: Light Leaks & Life Lessons

Welcome to the section where I explain how some of my photographs came to exist — usually through a combination of mild planning, stubborn wandering, and occasional good fortune.
Here you’ll find notes from photography trips, stories behind certain images, and the odd tutorial for anyone wondering how a particular shot was taken. Sometimes there’s careful technique involved. Other times it’s mostly standing about in the cold or rain waiting for the light to behave.
Think of it less as expert instruction and more as a running account of a photographer repeatedly carrying a camera to inconvenient places in the vague hope that something interesting will happen.
Occasionally, it even does.