About — bubblesphoto
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About

Always shooting,
always moving

I’ve spent the last 5-10 years chasing light across cities, coastlines, and back roads — with a film camera in one hand and a digital body in the other. This site is everything I’ve learned along the way.

5-10
Years shooting
10+
Cameras owned
2,000+
Nikon community members
4
Genres I shoot
On this page
My storyWhat I shootThis site
My story

Started with one camera.
Never really stopped.

I picked up my first serious camera about a decade ago and quickly discovered that photography is one of those things — the more you learn, the more there is to learn. I moved from digital to film, from automatic to manual, from phone snaps to considered compositions.

I tour constantly. Airports, new streets, unfamiliar light — that restlessness feeds the work. Film photography especially taught me to slow down and commit to a shot before pressing the shutter.

Today I shoot with a mix of modern mirrorless bodies and vintage film cameras — the reliability of digital when I need it, and the deliberateness of film when I want it.

What I shoot

Landscapes, streets,
and everything between.

My work spans landscape, street, travel, and film photography. Landscapes for the patience they demand. Street photography for the spontaneity and the human element you can’t plan for.

Film is the constant thread. I shoot Kodak, Fuji, and Cinestill stocks across several cameras. There’s a quality to film images — the grain, the colour rendering, the way highlights roll off — that I haven’t been able to fully replicate digitally.

This site

Built for photographers
who care about craft.

bubblesphoto started as a place to share what I know. Tutorials, gear notes, film tests, Lightroom workflows — the kind of content I wished existed when I was starting out. Everything here is based on actual shooting, not theory.

The free tools came from my own frustration at not finding good ones. The presets are distillations of years of editing, refined across hundreds of photos until they felt right.

The kit

What I shoot with

Primary digital
Nikon Zf

My main digital body. The retro controls suit my film-trained instincts.

Primary digital
Sony a7C II

Compact full-frame for travel. Light without sacrificing image quality.

Compact
Ricoh GR III

The best street camera ever made. Always in my pocket.

Compact
Fujifilm X100VI

The film simulations are unmatched. Travel-friendly and genuinely enjoyable to use.

Film — 35mm
Pentax 17 · Contax G1 · Leica Minilux

Each has a different character. The Pentax for half-frame, the Contax for sharpness, the Leica for the rendering.

Film — SLR
Contax S2

A fully mechanical 35mm SLR. Paired with Zeiss glass it produces stunning results.

Instant
Fujifilm Instax

For moments that deserve a physical print on the spot.

Aerial
DJI Drone

Landscape photography from above. The perspective shift changes everything.

Action / POV
Insta360 GO

Tiny magnetic clip camera for capturing the behind-the-scenes of a photo trip.

Community

Running the
Nikon community

Beyond shooting, I run one of the larger online communities for Nikon users — over 2,000 members sharing work, asking questions, and helping each other get better.

Being around that many photographers constantly sharpens your thinking — and directly shaped the tutorials and tools on this site.

“The best way to get better at photography is to be around people who care about it as much as you do.”
2,000+
Nikon community members

Start with a
free preset

Five film-inspired Lightroom presets, free. No catch — just a good starting point for your edit.