Norway Bonus Track

May 25, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

After every trip I go on, and shoot loads of film, there’s always at least one camera that still has half a roll in when I get back. So, it’s left for a week or two, then I finish the roll as part of another shoot and send the films off. Every time I get the scans back and I have a rush of excitement because there’s a handful of images I’d totally forgotten about – another of the many […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, travel • Tags: camper van, fuji superia 400, norway, Olympus mju II, road trip, sweden, vanlife

On The Road

May 6, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” Anthony Bourdain “The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a fucking tourist.” […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, travel

The things I saw (Norway)

May 4, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

The things I saw series – my personal snapshots of travels away from home normally come weeks, often months apart. This latest one from Norway comes almost back-to-back with Japan simply because I returned from Japan, stayed home for a day, then went to Norway (more accurately, England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway…). This latest trip was a 6000 road trip to shoot digital landscapes to sell as stock images, but as usual, I took my Olympus […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, travel • Tags: 35mm, film, I shoot film, norway, Olympus mju II, road trip

The things I saw (Tokyo) #9

May 3, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

I remember, years ago, falling asleep on the sofa whilst listening to a Travis CD, ‘The Man who’. I must have gone-off around about the end of ‘She’s so strange’, what followed seemed to be an eternity of silence, then the secret track kicked in – well I nearly soiled my pants – I’d listened to this CD dozens of times and had no idea there was a secret track. I never listened to it again after that, I was […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, travel • Tags: fuji 400H, japan, kodak portra 160, kodak portra 400, nikon 28mm 1.8G, nikon 50mm 1.4G, nikon f100, tokyo, UK Film Lab

The things I saw (Tokyo) #8

May 1, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

All the images here were made using my trusty Olympus MjuII 35mm compact and various film (Fuji Superia 400/800 and Kodak Gold 400, mainly). Processed and scanned at UK Film Lab.

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The things I saw (Tokyo) #7

April 27, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

‘There’s a lot of shit talked about photography, but you go out, take a photo of something you like, if you enjoy that image then it’s a good photo. It’s really that simple’  I wrote that when I first started this blog, and five years later it’s a statement I still stand by, even more so now. This is the last in the ‘The things I saw (Tokyo)’ series, I love every single shot, but I’ve saved my personal favourites until […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, travel • Tags: 35mm film, fuji superia 400, I shoot film, japan, Mount Fuji, Olympus mju II, tokyo

The things I saw (Tokyo) #6

April 26, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

People warned me that Tokyo is expensive, so I went prepared, but to be honest, it wasn’t. With the exchange rate the way it is at the moment (British £ – Japanese Yen), it means most things are cheaper than in the UK – a really good meal for two, with beer or wine (for me, not Jess, she’s only 15… although she looks older and was offered alcohol in almost every restaurant we went to) can be had for […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism, travel • Tags: 35mm, 35mm film, fuji superia 400, japan, Olympus mju II, tokyo

The things I saw (Tokyo) #5

April 26, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

An interesting fact about Japan – you can’t disable your cell phone camera shutter sound – even when you have the device on silent, it makes an audible ‘shutter sound’. Although it isn’t required by law, it was taken up voluntarily by all Japanese cellphone vendors. It is also rumoured that within the next year camera manufactures will introduce the same feature and disable silent modes with firmware updates and in new models. Even so, there are still plenty of […]

Categories: film photography, photojournalism, travel • Tags: 35mm, film, fuji superia 400, iphone, japan, Olympus mju II, tokyo, voyeurism

Three’s company.

April 25, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

A few people have asked me about the cost of travelling, but more specifically, road-tripping, so I thought I’d share the financial breakdown of the last trip I did to Scandinavia. The costs here are based on three people sharing, so with a bigger camper van you could split it 4, 5, even 6 ways or more, depending on how big your vehicle is. In 12 days we did a lot of driving, 6000 miles worth, so fuel costs are […]

Categories: Photography, travel • Tags: road trip, travel

The things I saw (Tokyo) #4

April 25, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it” All the images here were made using an Olympus MjuII 35mm compact and various film (Fuji Superia 400/800 and Kodak Gold 400, mainly). Processed and scanned at UK Film Lab.

Categories: film photography, photojournalism, travel • Tags: fuji film, fuji superia 400, japan, Olympus mju II, personal project, portrait, tokyo