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15/09/2025

New page for my large format “Camera Collection” added to my website - pictures of each of the 26 cameras, more information on each one to be added in due course.

A catalogue of my antique camera collection.

28/07/2025

All set up at Sea Mills to photograph “Galeon Andalucia”. Hope the river doesn’t rise too much more 🫣

19/06/2025

All taken with period large format cameras onto film. The negatives were scanned into Photoshop to make positives for social media sharing.

22/04/2025

Coming soon! My new exhibition of photographic work using the historic technique of wetplate collodion - silver on glass.
Each image is original, hand-crafted and unique. Click on the Eventbrite link to find out more about the exhibition being held at Studio3, Clevedon Craft Centre May10th to July 12th.

Meet Simon Williams at his new exhibition of photographs on glass made with antique cameras and the 170-year-old wetplate collodion process.

02/11/2024

Walked 600 feet up the south side of the Valley of The Rocks, Lynton, Exmoor, with three 100 year old Kodak Panoram cameras to make these images ( x Ray film)

08/10/2024

Cheery sunflowers on a stormy day - Clevedon Craft Centre

19/06/2024

17/06/2024

Lovely to see a (Ham Wall) bittern warming itself in the (very)early morning sun - lots of preening - I kept the camera on it for well over an hour hoping it would fly up - but it just slowly walked back into the reeds and disappeared from view!

15/06/2024

Feeling very pleased with the first few shots I'm processing from today's photo shoot with the red kites at Gigrin farm.