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14 November, 2025

The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

14 November, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Portra 160, pentax z-20, /

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For decades, it was established in 1963, not only the students of the Liceo Classico on the other side of Via Venezia, but almost all the inhabitants of my hometown, paid a visit to Pizzeria Liceo (aptly named after the aforementioned school). Tru...

Stone igloo

14 November, 2025

A Stone Igloo – My favourite photo of 2025

By Mark Ellerby

14 November, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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This photo was taken whilst on a hike with my local walking group, the Sheffield 40s/50s ramblers group, with my Rollei 35T that often comes with me on daywalks, because of its compact size and quality Tessar lens, and which I wrote about on this ...

14 November, 2025

Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera

By Ibraar Hussain

14 November, 2025

/ Half Frame Camera, Olympus Pen F, Olympus SLR, SLR Camera, /

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This post was one of my first few on 35mmc, that’s after lurking for a few years before I plucked up enough courage and audacity to get some of my photos and writing published. I have to thank Hamish for allowing me to express myself here. I...

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29 July, 2022

5 Frames of Close-up and Macro with an Olympus OM20, a Tokina 80-200 zoom and a Raynox DCR150 – By Richard Patterson

By Richard Patterson

The background to this story is that I bought an Olympus OM20 when they came out back in 1983, together with the 50mm kit lens. Over the next few years I added a Tokina 28mm and...

28 July, 2022

Shooting the “Callahan” Way – By Dave Powell

By Dave Powell

My wife Kate and I discovered the American photographer Harry Callahan in 2010, when we visited this exhibit at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. Callahan’s often ex...

27 July, 2022

A Brief Introduction to Digital Infrared Photography – By Matthew Patey

By Matthew Patey

Human vision is sensitive only to a small part of the entire colour spectrum. Infrared photography allows us to visualise reflected light that is otherwise invisible to us and o...

26 July, 2022

Konica EE-Matic 260 & Ilford Sportsman C – Reviving two Instamatic Cameras  – by Tobias Eriksson

By Flashknappen

The Instamatic cameras are anachronisms. The bloated cameras are detested plastic garbage these days. The film format they were designed for is not manufactured any more. Did co...

25 July, 2022

Stereoscopic Singapore: Making of a 3D Photography Project – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

The London Stereoscopic Company (LSC) features a different stereo photographer every month on their website. Sometime back, they invited me to contribute to the gallery for July...

24 July, 2022

5 frames with the Polaroid Sun 660 in the East Side Gallery – by George Pavlopoulos

By George Pavlopoulos

I'm still not used to riding my bicycle on freezing winter days. After living for more than a decade in Berlin, the idea of one more long winter gives me shivers. On the other h...

23 July, 2022

5 Frames with Ricoh XF30 Super Date – by Frankie Bina

By Frankie Bina

Compact camera, the integral piece of kit for any analog beginner, travel photographer or internet celebrity. I consider myself to be a part of the middle group, so I was on loo...

22 July, 2022

Film Photography Project: 2022 Releases of 35mm and 16mm Low ISO Films – Blue Ultra and Yeti

By Molly Kate

If you missed their announcements earlier in the year, the Film Photography Project (“FPP”) has brought out two new low ISO films in 2022. The two 24-exposure 35mm films are Blu...

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David Hume on Editing, manipulating, lying, fake – towards an agreement of the meaning of words
Peter, good on you for wishing to bring a bit of order to a topic that can easily spiral into…
Bill Brown on The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story
A Mexican restaurant that my wife and I had enjoyed for thirty years suffered the same fate. We had become…
Bill Brown on Editing, manipulating, lying, fake – towards an agreement of the meaning of words
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