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18 December, 2025

Denizen of the Lake – My Favourite Photograph of 2025

By Sroyon

Nature is awesome – not just in the Lego-movie Everything is Awesome sense, but in the original, older sense of inspiring awe and reverence. This is more obvious when we go out ...

18 December, 2025

5 First Frames and Developing of Fuji Velvia 100

By Alexander Seidler

Two thoughts come to my mind as I try to start to write these words. The first is that when ever I share something here on 35mmc (4 times so far) it was kind of a closure of tha...

18 December, 2025

Vernality Redux – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Peter Roberts

As I write this the first cold snap is heralding the start of winter making me realise that as I grow older I am becoming more and more a fair weather photographer. Having spent...

18 December, 2025

Mama Mamiya – 5 Frames with a Mamiya 135AF

By John Andrews

The year is 1980. A time of New Romantic synth-pop music, shoulder pads and neon colours. Big hair, make up on both sexes, and a time of big statement looks. Duran Duran, U2, ...

17 December, 2025

‘Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story’ – A Rare Glimpse at Some of my Professional Work

By Hamish Gill

I don’t share much of my professional work on here – sometimes I wonder why, as honestly I think most of my hobby work is pretty basic, whereas I am quite proud of s...

Close-up shot of a worn wooden panel mounted on a tiled wall, displaying four rows of vintage, cream-colored rotary fan speed controllers and two bottom rows of electrical sockets. A small red fire extinguisher is mounted directly beneath the panel.

17 December, 2025

Kopitiam Command Centre – One Shot Story

By Keith A Yeo

Shot on Kodak Gold 200 film, on a Yashica 35 GSN. Disclosure, I did straighten the photo digitally, because of the life of me it appears I can’t take a straight photograph...

17 December, 2025

Brahmaputra – My Photo of the Year 2025

By David Hume

In October and November of this year my wife and I spent three weeks in India, the first time there for both of us. Part of that time was spent in a week-long trip on the Brahma...

17 December, 2025

5 Frames of Croome Panorama Tower

By Roger

Fairly near where I live there is an observation tower that is under the care of the National Trust, part of the Croome estate, but because it is in the middle of a field a coup...

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Leon Winnert on Country Church – My photo of the year 2025
Hi Scott, your guessing is spot on. To put some numbers around dynamic range. Its the EV's or f stop…
Justin Kingery on Denizen of the Lake – My Favourite Photograph of 2025
Hell, that's one of MY favorite photos of 2025. Amazing shot.
Geoff Chaplin on ‘Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story’ – A Rare Glimpse at Some of my Professional Work
The tools, settings, techniques and level of involvement with the artists you need to get the shots you want. Professional.…

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