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Passengers waiting for a subway train

4 December, 2025

Harman Red in New York

By James Billings

4 December, 2025

/ Harman Film, Harman Red, /

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I’ve recently returned home from my latest sabbatical – I’m lucky enough that my day-job employer gives me an extra 6 week break every 5 years! While I was in Austria, I stumbled across a couple of camera shops (I was actually lo...

Sunset light grazing a church roof, steeple, clouds and then reflecting off the moon

4 December, 2025

A Vast Illumination – My photograph of the year 2025

By Dave Powell

4 December, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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Just a glance at this vast illumination showed me how hard light has to hustle to deliver our personal realities. Blasting along at 186,282 miles a second, rays from the sun setting behind me averaged just 8 minutes 22.6 seconds to cross the 93,47...

4 December, 2025

Horseman 980 – A Seasonal Essay

By Jon Bosak

4 December, 2025

/ Horseman 980, Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, /

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Most people coming into film photography start with the camera and then try to figure out how to scan the results. I went the other way. I shot film for 30 years, finally switching to digital around 2000. A few years ago, I decided to digitize all...

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Mamiya Six IV, roll of exposed Tri-X film, and a cup of coffee

12 September, 2025

Mamiya Six IV – Exploring Square Format with a Vintage Camera from 1947

By Danai

I’ve always been fascinated by the square format. As a longtime 35mm SLR shooter, I never really experienced different aspect ratios—except through cropping in post. My journey ...

11 September, 2025

5 Frames on the River Severn with a Rolleiflex 2.8C

By Matthew Bigwood

Last summer I met a friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and we visited a couple of places on the eastern banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. I took my Rolleiflex 2.8C...

Bellows to the Wind poster

11 September, 2025

The Influence of Film on Film part 2 – Bellows to the Wind

By Lucinda Lewis

Back in 2020 I wrote about my first venture into DIY film making with my short film Preserve. I was asked to contribute to 35mmc and felt it right to talk about the film, and ho...

10 September, 2025

An Asian Lion Guarding an Italian Town – One (plus one) Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Ofena is a small town located within the Abruzzo National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, in Italy, Hit by the 2009 earthquake, Ofena is still struggling to recover. L...

10 September, 2025

Wider Than Wide-Angle – 15mm for Documentary Photography

By Simon King

I recently wrote about my use of 21mm, a lens I had used some years ago and returned to out of necessity when, while working a specific situation, my standard wide angle was not...

A fast-foot restaurant under the JR Yamanote line tracks in Tokyo, Japan.

9 September, 2025

Tokyo At Night – A One-Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

The goal of every travel photographer is to capture the essence of a place or a people in a single image. The challenge – beyond the obvious technical issues related to hauling ...

9 September, 2025

My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)

By Curtis Heikkinen

Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...

Picture of the Ricoh 500 G

8 September, 2025

From Analog Photography to Digital and Back – A Journey to Find Meaning in Non-Professional Photography

By Giacomo Cecot

In 2005, I picked up my first real camera: a Ricoh 500G. It had been lying around the house for years—it was the same camera my mother had used to take all the photos we have, o...

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