Rob Masters

This story is one that I thought I had finished. Then one of the characters started poking me, and telling me that there needed to be more. Finder tells me it is done, for now at least. So here is what I think is the complete story of Lorn, Scout Explorer and Finder-of-Unnoticed-Details, Shaman. https://rdmasters.lympago.com/p/scout-and-shaman.html Diligent readers Of A Certain Age may well have suspicions about the larger universe that the story is set in. I will neither confirm nor deny this resemblance. Anyway, I filed the serial numbers off, and gave it a new coat of paint. 

I do not often make gear recommendations to other photographers, but today I will, because it is not some great flash new bit of kit that will revolutionise your workflow. I am recommending it because it will revolutionise how you look at photography, and remind you of the very core of our art. So, if you are an even half-way skilled photographer, go out and get yourself a kiddies thermal printing camera. And a bunch of thermal printer rolls of paper. You'll set yourself back about AUD50 for enough supplies to print thousands of images. Don't bother getting a microSD card for it. That's not the point. The point is the immense freedom and creative challenges that working with a fixed aperture, fixed focus plastic lens that will then print out on a short-lived high-contrast paper will bring. And it is a freedom being so highly restricted. It is also freeing to be able to shoot with abandon, not worrying about any sort of post-processing, and not worrying about the cost of the...