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A wide format photo of a row of tightly parked moped motorcycles

31 December, 2025

Moped Panorama, Rome – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Colin O'S

31 December, 2025

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My submission to the Photo of the Year collection was taken back in January 2025, in Rome. I had just got on a city bus, waiting at its first stop, when I noticed this line of parked mopeds outside – so evocative of all of Italy – and ...

Infrared panorama over Hong Kong taken from Victoria Peak.

31 December, 2025

My Gateway to Infrared

By Jonathan Murray

31 December, 2025

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My introduction to infrared photography—both the inspiration and the activation—began in Hong Kong several decades ago. Infrared photography is a fascination that has stayed with me ever since, tracking alongside the generational leaps in digital ...

31 December, 2025

Siblings – My Photo(s) Of The Year 2025

By Alexander Seidler

31 December, 2025

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Selecting photos is a tough job in my opinion. Nevertheless the choice for my pair of shots had been clear because this little “siblings” series occupied me for a long period of this year, and the quantitative output had been low. I us...

31 December, 2025

The Technical Side of My Photography – A Reflection on How I Shoot

By Alexandre Kreisman

31 December, 2025

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This post will be a mix of reflections on my technical approach, things I have observed while shooting. Let’s start at the beginning: Me! I tend to be a perfectionist. I shoot exclusively in manual mode, usually without flash or a light mete...

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27 June, 2024

My First use of Caffenol

By Roger

There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...

27 June, 2024

5 Frames with a Panasonic Lumix G100

By Richard de Bulat

I was looking to find a couple of older generation cameras for video and vlogging and settled on a GH4 that reputedly had some fungus in the viewfinder and was, therefore, an ab...

26 June, 2024

5 Frames with a Pentax MZ5 at the Beach

By nzcarl

Hi all my name is Carl Cozzone and i am a long time film user and photographer in Christchurch Nz. I seem to have been using fim camera’s all my life. Starting with a Pent...

26 June, 2024

A Classic Car meet with XP2 Super and a bit of help from a Leica 111a

By Phil Harrison

I had without realising it been spoiled by a lab that used Fuji Negastar B/W developer. This developer made all the films I sent, especially 400asa films, look great. Fine grain...

25 June, 2024

The “Troytsa” – a Religious Resistance Symbol in Bessarabia

By Julian Tanase

The Troytsa is a religious monument, showing Christ on a cross (or just a cross) in various models, depending on the artist’s skills or local custom. It is made many times in a ...

Good Friday lunch

25 June, 2024

5 Frames of Kodak Double XX 5222 on a Pentax Espio 24EW in Madrid

By Nick Orloff

I’m sure that I’m no different from most photographers when I travel – I always take far more gear than I end up using. In February had a 10 day work trip, with a couple of days...

24 June, 2024

The Kids Are Alright – A One Shot Story

By John Bennett

While walking back to our car after Indian food with friends, my wife and I passed a group of kids waiting in front of a skate venue that was hosting live music later in the eve...

24 June, 2024

Olympus E-1 Review – Down the Kodak CCD Rabbit Hole

By Ibraar Hussain

To go down the Rabbit Hole: To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one tha...

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