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28 December, 2025

Capo Testa, Sardinia – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Patrick Medd

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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2025 has been a mixed bag for me, photographically. Looking at my Lightroom catalogue I can see that I have roughly half the number of images for the year compared to 2024 and that number includes scans of most of the negatives I have shot in the ...

oak trees in a wood

28 December, 2025

A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025

By Richard Becker

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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13th May 2025, early afternoon. The oak trees had only just fully come into leaf and it was a beautiful day, hot with clear blue skies and a gentle breeze. But none of the photographs I was taking reflected this in any way, the intense green of th...

28 December, 2025

The Haunting of Sheda Jatt of Village Gehal Bala – My favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

28 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Portrait Photography, /

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I’ve been away for a while, 3 weeks plus a few days on either side, so probably a month away from the website, apologies to my friends here as I’ve a lot of catching up to do. It was 3 weeks of shooting, having two camera bodies; an Ol...

28 December, 2025

A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography

By Thomas Eland

28 December, 2025

/ Camera Theory, Finding Film Photography, /

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During my pre digital life I was mostly a Pentax fan, using their SL, SP, ES, ME, MX, LX, 67 and 645…all long gone. The last three I bought whilst I was in Hong Kong for a few years and I even carried the 67 and Benbo mk.1 tripod up Mount Ki...

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17 November, 2024

One Man’s Journey in Seven Photos

By Edward Currie

This is a story of one man’s journey in seven photographs. It was actually meant to be a discussion about the superb resolving power of lenses and emulsions in the very early 20...

The Gigapixel Image

17 November, 2024

The Gigapixel Image

By Geoff Chaplin

I’d like to report an interesting (well, I thought so anyway) discussion that took place at my village camera club the other day. The topic was “How to Achieve a Gigapixel Image...

Group of marbles

16 November, 2024

Dust and mud and the marbles

By Cem Eren

Dave Powell had recently published a post about his adventures with c-mount marble macros. I commented on that post saying he had inspired me to shoot my marbles which were rece...

Featured Image: 5 Frames with a Minolta Dynax 9 + Harmon Phoenix 200

16 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta Dynax 9 & Harmon Phoenix 200

By Trevor Gallyot

“Happy accidents?” I often muse on my growing fascination with analogue photography. Digital was my starting point, my comfort zone when I needed to “get the shot” a...

Kodak Easyshare DX7630

15 November, 2024

5 Frames with a Kodak Easyshare DX7630

By Sebastian Shields

I’ve had a tumultuous, and possibly longer than I’d like, experience with my Kodak Easyshare DX7630. On one hand, the colors out of the Kodak CCD sensor can be beautiful, while ...

Photo of Hasselblad X1D II

15 November, 2024

Hasselblad X1D II 50C – A Week of Trying Digital Medium Format

By Sebastian Shields

After the recommendation from a friend to check out my school’s lending library, I went on a deep dive through all the gear available. After finding a Plustek 8200i as well as a...

14 November, 2024

Portraits in Skating

By Andrea Monti

In sports photography, portraits are as important as snapshots of crucial moments such as a win, a loss or an unpredictable event, for they are an excellent way to capture the h...

14 November, 2024

Enjoying the 110 format

By Tony Warren

the 110 format, the cameras, film, cassettes.

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Thomas Eland on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Thanks for your extensive and informative reply. Plus of course happy New year to all members
Marco Andrés on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Quite the journey. Excellent introduction to a panoply of « odd » cameras, which are definitely worth exploring. The Adox…
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