Writing and photography, in rhythm.
This space is a curated archive of my creative work — reflections, field notes, and images that mark time and meaning. Some pieces began as Substack posts, now reclaimed and rehomed here. Others are new, unfolding in real time.
I publish here first. Substack serves as a distribution channel, but crowhurst.art is the canonical home.
Each post is a moment — visual, verbal, or both — offered without urgency, but with care.
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Why am I scanning film negatives?
Large- and medium-format film photography feels like a different art form from digital photography. Yes, it shares the same visual language, but the tools are so different, and the aesthetic is considerably different. The lifecycle of image capture is measured in hours or days, not milliseconds, from button press to review on the back of…
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Why explore film?
Jacquelyn pointed out this morning how odd it was to make a film photograph, develop the negative, and then turn around and digitise it. Amongst the film photography enthusiast community, this approach is known as hybrid photography, blending the use of film into the digital world. If I want to do anything with a photograph…
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Hasselblad Heritage
These are some of the first 12 photographs I took with the Hasselblad 500C/M I acquired from a great friend. I forgot my light meter on the trip, so all the exposures were guestimates. The camera is fully manual, and so are the lenses. Learning to focus is quite a challenge; the camera has a…
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Refusing to cow down
North Devon Last week, I promised some photographs from north Devon, where Jacquelyn and I visited the coast at Mouthmill Beach. And yes, a mill is at the mouth of the river that leads to the beach. It’s no longer a working mill, but the building still stands. It is a gorgeous section of the…
