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Des Clark

A space to discover, reflect and engage with the world of photography and the story behind its images. Photostory.

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Not even 30 Shades of Grey

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2026/01/30

Rather Split-Tone Black & White!You think I’ve done a typo in the heading? Close but no cigar! Depending on which website you read, the human eye can “only” see either 30 or 500 shades of grey. So definitely not 50! Quite a difference between these two figures and I’m sure that doing a really deep dive into some scientific journal will tell you the real truth. However in terms of shades of grey, I’m not sure how many a typical dreary Dutch winter day has but 500 seems a bit over the top

Nostalgia

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2026/01/22

When I heard the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney say "Nostalgia is not a strategy" at Davos a few days ago (20th Jan) - and no, I wasn't actually in Davos myself 😉 - I immediately thought "that's a great quote" at the same time as mentally thinking about Fujifilm's Nostalgic Negative film simulation. The whole idea of nostalgia is making a lot of money these days. Everything from film for cameras which is currently seeing a revival in sales; vinyls as Gen Z calls them (albums or LP's in

Niches and Strengths

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2026/01/07

Find your niche. Play to your strengths. I'm sure we've all heard those lines, or something close. In photography terms, good principles - but do they allow you to grow creatively? I read a Q&A post from a photography blog this morning where the questioner is anxious about trying to find their niche, perceiving it - and I'm guessing here - a place to become expert in that field. Maybe even well known. The answer from a prominent pro-photographer was to the effect that niching down (is that

Black Friday, Ikigai and Photography

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2025/11/28

By the time you read this, Black Friday will be history. For 2025 that is.Maybe, because of the algorithm, that ubiquitous, intangible, digital spider-web that we are firmly entrapped into these days, it won’t be ‘till Black Friday 2026 (or even beyond!) that you get to find me and read this. In any event, writing this on Black Friday, 28th November 2025, I’ve spent a considerable amount of minutes clicking Delete on the tidal wave of emails that have been arriving into my InBox over the past

Zero Choice

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2025/10/02

Can you imagine?It did exist once. At least in my lifetime. Film photography. Ah. You loaded a film canister into your camera. Took some amazing images (you hoped as you could never tell there and then). The wind-on mechanism indicated you had come to the end of the roll. You wound the film back into the canister and then either sent it off to a lab to get processed – or in my father’s case – developed the negative in our family kitchen (yes my long-suffering mother) and then processed

RAW, JPEG, SOOC or something in between…

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2025/09/09

First things first. This is not yet another post on the merits of JPEG over RAW - or vice versa. I think we’ve all had enough of them. Rather, I’d like to develop (no pun intended) some more thoughts following my last post on the merits of taking images straight out of camera (SOOC), or processing them afterwards in Lightroom or a similar photo-editing software platform. One of the advantages that I see Fujifilm cameras having over say the likes of Sony, Nikon, Canon etc (Leica even!) is that

Intentional Photography

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2025/08/07

Search “intentional photography” and you’ll likely get a list of results all featuring Intentional Camera Movement. Which is fine if what you’re searching for is ICM. Such as this image… Except I’m not. I recently saw a YouTube by a photographer who had set himself the challenge of turning off the back screen of his digital camera and essentially manually counting the number of images he had taken up to 36. Doing his best to mimic a film camera whilst using a digital one (Fujifilm). All with

Daguerreotype

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2025/08/06

Addressing the elephant in the room - how do you even pronounce daguerreotype? Never mind what they actually are. Well for English speakers - try “duh·geh·ruh·tipe” - and you won’t be too far off. Fine. And…? What is it? Well - and this is from WikiP so it must be true - it’s a photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre (French scientist) in 1837. This process was officially announced by the French government as a gift to the world on August 19th, 1839.

ZORKI 4 K

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2025/07/24

On a night in Zagreb, Croatia during my Balkans road trip, I happened upon a bistro which used to be owned by a prominent (Yugoslavian) photographer Josip Klarica. Although born in Belgrade (currently Serbia) in 1946, he worked and lived in Zagreb. Indeed, not only featuring lovely local scenes, the bistro contains hundreds (literally!) of old (film / analogue) cameras in cabinets, on shelves and windowsills. Basically every flat surface you can find has a camera on it! One caught my eye. A

Not just a game of strategy

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2025/07/21

For a game that originated in 6th century India before moving to Persia (Iran) and then finally finding its footing in Spain thanks in large part to the spread of Islam, chess is taken very seriously in Sarajevo, Bosnia. I rumbled onto an intense match between some local champions, watched on eagerly by a disapproving, gesture waving, chain smoking men-only group. I tried to initiate some conversations anxious that my camera wouldn't give another reason for two finger gestures - or worse.

Road trip to Kiss the Future

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2025/07/17

30 years on since the Srebrenica genocide, during which over 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered, and the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement which put an end to the Bosnian war - I decided to do a road trip to the Balkans and Sarajevo…

Not a Vintage Eterna simulation

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2025/06/12

Search for “Vintage Eterna” and AI Overview (!) will come up with -The "Vintage Eterna" film simulation is a custom recipe based on the Eterna base film simulation in Fujifilm cameras. It's not a specific film stock from the past but aims to evoke a vintage look and feel, reminiscent of older color films. This recipe often features a softer, more muted color palette and a slightly muted contrast, giving images a vintage aesthetic. Whilst I use Fujifilm cameras, they are both old enough not to

This is the season…

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2025/05/20

Beautiful in colour. Fragile in nature. Resilient in thriving.The red poppy worn around the world in remembrance of battlefield deaths has nothing to do with the blood shed in the brutal clashes of World War I - as I once thought. Instead, it symbolises the wild flowers that were the first plants to grow in the churned-up soil of soldiers' graves in Flanders, Belgium. Little else could grow in the blasted soil that became rich in lime from the rubble.

Historical Images and Printing

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2025/04/01

I visited a photographic exhibition recently in the Italian city of Biella. The exhibition was largely featuring the mountain landscape works of the Italian photographer, Vittorio Besso (1828-1895). Whilst I recognised many of the areas that Besso had taken his photographs with a huge plate camera, it was the significant retreat of the glaciers since his time that struck me in many of his images. Scenes that I “recognised” I barely did now, such is the demise of these rivers of ice that

American Photography (Dream)

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2025/03/19

The photographs on display are a mix of the historical, the trivial, the powerful and the informative. Some images from Robert Frank’s “The Americans” are featured and add powerfully to the narrative of a country that was - and still is - grappling with racism, loneliness and consumer culture. If you’re in Amsterdam before June 9th, wholly recommend a visit. You won’t regret it!

Exploring the XPan 65:24 format

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2025/02/09

XPan cameras were a joint collaboration between Fujifilm and Hasselblad back in the late 90’s. Hasselblad called their camera the XPan whilst Fuji called theirs the TX-1. The thing with this format camera was that apart from shooting a regular 35mm frame (36x24), they were really made for taking a wide panoramic 65x24mm negative. This size roughly equals the width of two standard 35mm frames side by side. Anyway, legacy is one thing. Current application is another. How to get images in this

Legacy Printing

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2024/11/19

Apart from the joy of holding a tangible print and looking at the image anew thinking back to when I actually took the photo, what has really struck me is the all the different textures in the paper now. Wow. And how this makes such a difference to each print. Some you don't want to feel much, if any texture, such is the image. Others - like my Window Shutter one - just demand having a textured paper! After quite a lot of experimentation, testing and buying different papers, I've narrowed my

The 3 “P’s” - Photos, Printers, Papers…

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2024/10/29

MissionTo have some of my images hanging on a (currently) blank wall in the house! I certainly have photos! Check. But virtually all of them gathering digital dust sitting on hard drives. I have few tangible physical prints of images that I think could look well hanging on the wall above. Which started me on a journey…

A (very) irregular photo share…

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2024/09/24

Every so often I look at photos that I’ve picked out and shared on social.And wonder - what was all that about?… Some of them I’ll print (more on that journey shortly), but many of them will just sit on hard drives gathering digital dust. So - inspired by the Czech photographer, Ondrej Vachek- I’m sharing my year to date “flagged” photos.

Why Not Join Me?

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2024/07/17

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of travelling to a number of different places around the world. On some of the trips I now go on, it’s possible for others to join me. These can range from research trips, photography trips, retreats and the like. If you’d like to know what’s coming up next in terms of trips that you could possibly join me on, then just follow this link to send me your email .

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