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A figure stands alone in an alley between massive buildings on either side.

20 December, 2025

Solitude in Shenzhen – My favorite photo of 2025

By Kohtli

20 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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I’ve tried using Lomo Metropolis before, but that was on full frame with a very cheap point and shoot. This time around I was making an effort to shoot in on 120 with an old Olympus Six I recently had CLA’d. I went off to China for the first time ...

20 December, 2025

Phoenix (I) Rising, or, How I Tame the Beast

By Michael Murray

20 December, 2025

/ Harman Film, Harman Phoenix 200, /

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Phoenix (1) Why Bother? When it was released a few years ago, Harman Phoenix was a welcome new kid on the block. Like most, I was eager to try it out. To begin with, I want to say that, while I understand many photographers have their go-to method...

20 December, 2025

Graveyard – My favourite photo of 2025

By Max Tiraquon

20 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, /

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2025 was not a productive year photographically wise for me. A combination of a very minor but niggly medical issue combined with the rarest of things a great British summer and finally deciding to pick up a PlayStation 5 meant I didn’t go out muc...

View of the Monte Fort in Verona, Italy

20 December, 2025

By Andrea Darra

20 December, 2025

/ foma, Foma Film, Fomapan 100, Nikon F2, travel photography, /

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I’ve been taking photos for many years. Over the years, I’ve realized that I enjoy photographing places, whether deserted or crowded—because in them, like in people, there’s a soul that speaks to their history. One of my favorite...

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27 July, 2025

‘One Third Keepers’ with Kentmere Pan 200 and a Konica AutoReflex T3

By Bob Janes

In the relatively early days of digital I was involved in online discussions about whether the fact that our short-to-shot cost with digital cameras was tempting us to ‘spray an...

Bourdelle wall sculpture

27 July, 2025

In a Paris Sculpture Garden (with an IR-converted Nikon CoolPix 990)

By Dave Powell

Antoine Bourdelle isn’t a household name in the U.S. But he’s nearly legendary in France. His life stood squarely at the crossroads of European art’s transition from Beaux-Arts ...

Boardwalk

26 July, 2025

5 Frames of Kodak Technical Pan developed with C41 developer

By Simon Foale

I’ve been experimenting with high resolution films of various kinds since returning to analogue photography and one of the more interesting products in this category is Kodak Te...

26 July, 2025

Rainy day play with some gifted gear – Playing with Medium and Large Format

By Art Meripol

Twice in the last few years I’ve been fortunate to haveva friend gift me some wonderful gear. A former co-worker, mentor and dear friend in his 80’s gave me his Horseman 980, a ...

Digital infrared photo of artichokes past their prime in Paris

25 July, 2025

Autumn Artichokes – An Ekphrastic* Poem (One Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Past their prime in a Paris garden. Abandoned artichokes. Wrapped in brown against autumn winds. Forgotten. Inedible. Suitable now for fall arrangements. Or compost. Grieving al...

25 July, 2025

Leica IIIa and 50mm Elmar – The Pleasures and Challenges of a Barnack Leica

By Curtis Heikkinen

I’ve posted a number of pieces on this site, all but one featuring images from my Leica M3 with a Zeiss 50 mm F2 lens. That set up has been my primary one for film photography....

24 July, 2025

It wos the camera wot done it – A one shot story

By Peter Roberts

Or to give it its full title, ‘Nothing to do wiv me, guv. It wos the camera wot done it, honest.’ Towards the end of a canal walk in North London on one of the hotte...

24 July, 2025

5 Photographs taken with a Yashica Mat 124G in the Zócalo of Mexico City.

By Leonel Leyva C

For those of us who have used a TLR camera, any invitation to use one again is a wonderful excuse to enjoy it. The mechanisms, the construction, the finish, the enormous waist-l...

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