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A black & white photo of a two skiers on a ski slope, with long afternoon shadows.

14 December, 2025

Shadows On-Piste – My Best Photo of 2025

By Harrison Matthew

14 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, travel photography, /

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My name is Harrison Matthew, and I am a hobbyist photographer with one foot each in film and digital, preferring rangefinders and always looking for ways to bury myself further in the photographic process. I took what I believe to be my best photo...

Forest, woman, sea, sunset

14 December, 2025

Through the woods to the shore – My image of the year 2025

By Klaus Wirz

14 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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Since the reunification of Germany, traveling to the Baltic Sea beyond the former border has become uncomplicated, and I was one of the first to visit these places—frozen in time—as a tourist and have returned since then at least once a year. Befo...

14 December, 2025

Vintage Glass Plates – From Test to Print

By Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

14 December, 2025

/ Alternative Process, Glass Plate, ilford FP4+, /

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While an analogue photography habit can help us avoid the relentless tide of technological progress, it would be delusional to suggest it helps us (or me at least), avoid Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Despite owning most varieties of medium format ca...

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13 July, 2023

Pentax LX – Shooting My Wife’s Camera

By Geoff Chaplin

The camera had been lying around in a cupboard for a long long time so, since it wasn’t being used, I sold it. “You gave me that camera as an engagement present!!!” said my wife...

13 July, 2023

A Whole Month/Whole Roll – The Olympus 35RC and Ilford HP5+

By Anders Lewis

There’s something magical about the first roll developed in a new camera. The cathartic release of weeks (in this case, a month) of anxiety is almost unmatched (I don’t have kid...

12 July, 2023

The “Blue Hour” from On High (a One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

This article’s title is, I think, appropriate. I shot the photo as our Lufthansa Airbus 340 winged its way from Boston to Italy (via Frankfurt) last May. Jetting east like that ...

12 July, 2023

The End of the Dream – Installing dystopian billboards throughout California

By Thomas Broening

The End of the Dream is a series of photographic installations portraying the three challenges endangering California’s existence: drought, wildfire, and housing. I instal...

11 July, 2023

AI: The Beginning of The End of Photography

By Eric Charles Jones

Image above created by the AI image generator (DALL-E) “There used to be big men in the world, men of mind and power and imagination. There was St. Paul and Einstein and Shakesp...

11 July, 2023

Fujifilm 400 (made in the USA) vs. Kodak Ultramax 400 – The Same, or Different…?

By Dave Palumbo

With color films often in short supply and prices continuing to increase, it was sad news when Fuji “paused” Superia X-TRA 400 in April of this year. It’s reasonable to se...

10 July, 2023

NEWS: MiNT Innovates With An All-in-One SLR670 (Type i) Camera

By Molly Kate

MiNT’s innovation continues to serve the Polaroid instant film community, this time by making an all-in-one SLR670 camera that takes SX-70, 600, and now i-Type films. While the ...

10 July, 2023

Rollei 35S “Art Machine” – My Early Experiences

By John Feole

The Rollei 35 may be the best secret of all. Introduced in 1966, this miniature 35mm film viewfinder camera is more than the sum of its beautifully engineered parts. With a litt...

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