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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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My Asylum Years

By John Greene

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2 September, 2024

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By Sroyon

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1 September, 2024

5 Frames with a Hasselblad 501 C – ZEISS 80mm f/2.8 and Kodak Gold 200 – By Eric L. Woods

By Eric

Quite a few years ago a kind co-worker basically gave me this Hasselblad 501c at the price I paid. And from the first roll I was hooked. I heard someone say in a video recently ...

31 August, 2024

5 Frames with Three Cameras in the Woods

By CHRISTOF RAMPITSCH

For this 5 Frames, we’re going to a small suburban forest with mostly Aspen and Oak trees and lots of paths. Athough there are loads of birds and other animals there, I come for...

Boy with pinecone

30 August, 2024

The Power of a Pinecone — A One-Shot Story

By David Smith

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” — Voltaire I fell in love with analog cameras before I became enamoured with the images that they can cre...

Pentax 110-Zoom 20-40mm f2.8 on E-M5 Mark II

30 August, 2024

5 Frames with a 20-40mm f/2.8 Pentax 110 lens on an OMD-EM5 MKII

By Nicholas Johnson

My grandfather loved cameras, and loved buying the funky ones it seems. I can relate to the obsession; cameras are fun, mechanical, and basically magic image collectors. So I to...

29 August, 2024

The Tranmere Cross – A One Shot Story

By John Greene

Local history has long been a fascination of mine and there is plenty of it around Merseyside where I have always lived. On the Wirral side of the River Mersey history can be tr...

29 August, 2024

Nikon F3 – The Professional Simplicity

By Julian Tanase

This is not going to be (yet) another camera review of the Nikon F3; I am certain that if you wish to read or see such one, you will find zillions out there on the internet. The...

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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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