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3 September, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta 9000 and Kentmere Pan 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

1 September, 2025

Portraits of Sabrina – An Exercise in Photographic Therapy

By Derek Hope

It’s 1125BC; King Locrinus is King of the Britons. His wife, Gwendolen had learned her husband’s infidelity, of the illegitimate daughter born of Germanic Princess Estrild...

29 August, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with a Minolta Dynax 7 and Kentmere Pan 400 exposed at ISO 200

By Bob Janes

The idea of ‘One third keepers’ came out of online chats I took part in about 15-20 years ago. We discussed hit rates of chosen to unchosen shots and whether digita...

26 August, 2025

Inside a Master Luthier’s Workshop

By Andrea Monti

Craftsmanship is fascinating. It’s almost magical how we can see things in our head and make them happen. This is true for every bit of wisdom that humans have come up wit...

24 August, 2025

A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll

By Alexandre Kreisman

If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes. I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive o...

24 August, 2025

Hanoi’s Beer Street with a Broken Ricoh GR1v

By Ali MC

Beer Street, Hanoi. As the name suggests, yes – you can drink beer here. Many beers, in fact, a feat I had evidently achieved this particular evening. Along with inhaling nitrou...

20 August, 2025

Earth, Air, Fire and Water – in Sapporo

By Geoff Chaplin

A two-day relaxing trip to Sapporo, Japan – at least as relaxing as 70,000 steps of photo-walks can be in 31°C. The title emerged from the images I happened to take rather than ...

19 August, 2025

Fujifilm Velvia 50 and an Aesthetic of Necessity

By David Hume

I’ve recently been digging through folders and shoeboxes, looking for photos I shot in Venice in January 1995. That was a painting trip, but of course I took some cameras with m...

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