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28 December, 2025

Capo Testa, Sardinia – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Patrick Medd

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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2025 has been a mixed bag for me, photographically. Looking at my Lightroom catalogue I can see that I have roughly half the number of images for the year compared to 2024 and that number includes scans of most of the negatives I have shot in the ...

oak trees in a wood

28 December, 2025

A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025

By Richard Becker

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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13th May 2025, early afternoon. The oak trees had only just fully come into leaf and it was a beautiful day, hot with clear blue skies and a gentle breeze. But none of the photographs I was taking reflected this in any way, the intense green of th...

28 December, 2025

The Haunting of Sheda Jatt of Village Gehal Bala – My favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

28 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Portrait Photography, /

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I’ve been away for a while, 3 weeks plus a few days on either side, so probably a month away from the website, apologies to my friends here as I’ve a lot of catching up to do. It was 3 weeks of shooting, having two camera bodies; an Ol...

28 December, 2025

A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography

By Thomas Eland

28 December, 2025

/ Camera Theory, Finding Film Photography, /

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During my pre digital life I was mostly a Pentax fan, using their SL, SP, ES, ME, MX, LX, 67 and 645…all long gone. The last three I bought whilst I was in Hong Kong for a few years and I even carried the 67 and Benbo mk.1 tripod up Mount Ki...

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Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL camera from the front surrounded by 35mm film canisters

6 August, 2025

5 Frames with the Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL and Lomography Orca

By Benjamin Chan

Although I don’t shoot 110 film much, maybe 1-2 rolls a year, I do enjoy it. But it’s a hassle and options for film stocks are limited with Lomography being the only...

6 August, 2025

One Shot Story – What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)

By Andrea Monti

Rome’s souvenir shops are full of busts, plaques and other artefacts mixing the sacre and the profane —and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with the Eternal C...

Chroma Six:9 camera and Rodenstock 70mm

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable...

Old B&W image of a Bentley.

5 August, 2025

Bentley JPG 378 – a One Shot Story.

By Richard Becker

Of what follows almost nothing could be true, or it all could be. The problem is that it comes mainly from my childhood memories and there is no-one left to corroborate or not. ...

5 August, 2025

Voigtlander Bessamatic – A retrospective look at a marketplace find.

By Steve Kotajarvi

One of my daily routines includes a search in the local classifieds for cameras. Initially fueled by my obsession with finding “that perfect camera” and later to fin...

4 August, 2025

Crazy email nonsense – A quick note to contributors

By Hamish Gill

Apologies for the onslaught of email notifications today. We lost them all over the weekend, but when the dev guys attempted to fix this, they swung the needle too far the other...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By David Pauley

I want to start by thanking my fellow Brooklyner and 35mmc contributor Scott Ferguson for inviting me to join him in a new twist on a “Five Frames” presentation wher...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By Scott Ferguson

By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s...

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Erik Brammer on A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025
Hey Richard, certainly your photograph speaks to me very much. Well done!
Thomas Eland on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Thanks for your extensive and informative reply. Plus of course happy New year to all members
Marco Andrés on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Quite the journey. Excellent introduction to a panoply of « odd » cameras, which are definitely worth exploring. The Adox…

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