Chris Johnston Photography

23/05/2026

A gradual shift to Substack,

I’m a geologist. I see stories in rocks that most miss. Over the last 300 million years, this granite outcrop has risen from 40 km down to the surface. Exposed over millions more years to freeze-thaw cycles and heat-driven expansion and contraction, its surface has exfoliated — or spalled — in...

03/05/2026

And so I begin again. I have reverted to Nikon from Pentax MF. Slowly the muscle memory is awakening, to be honest a bit like a drunken stagger. 2 new to me bodies a D5 and a D850 and some wicked good glass. These cameras are Samsung 24 Ultras to my Pentax's Nokia 3310. Ill get there. For your amusement, a red gate abstract in the low afternoon sunlight, if you zoom you will see the gate seam is in focus. (D-850 85mm f1.4) and a backlit Cana (D5 600mm f4).