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Chandni Chowk Old Delhi

27 December, 2025

A Rainy Night in Chandni Chowk — My Photo of the Year 2025

By Danai

27 December, 2025

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

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I found myself in New Delhi, India, for a conference and took the opportunity to explore the local markets for some street photography. This image was taken on my first day in India, and I was definitely not prepared for what I was about to experi...

27 December, 2025

Black Rock Diving Tower – Best Photo of 2025

By Sasha Tsyrlin

27 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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Black Rock Diving Tower is an iconic landmark in Galway, Ireland. It is situated along the picturesque Salthill promenade overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This location has been photographed a million times but it was very great fun nonetheless to ...

Picture of a heifer wearing a bell and Swiss flags walking down a street as part of a parade.

27 December, 2025

Alpabfahrt – My 2025 Photo of the Year

By Theodore Crispino

27 December, 2025

/ Event Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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In September, my family hopped the ferry from Ireland to France and then drove from Brittany to Switzerland. This was all done to visit friends of ours who live in a small village outside of Lucerne. The husband grew up in the village and he had i...

27 December, 2025

Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography

By Chad Hill

27 December, 2025

/ afgan box camera, Benson Dry Plate Co., Box Camera, /

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Over the last few years I have been fascinated by the amazing story of Afghan Box Cameras. If you are not familiar with them, Afghan Box Cameras are a category of “instant” camera that was popular in Afghanistan from the 50s until the ...

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The deadly Reynisfjara Beach in Iceland

4 June, 2025

Don’t Turn Your Back on the Water! – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Cliff climbing, anyone? These volcanic basalt columns on Reynisfjara Beach on Iceland’s southern coast are one of the country’s several answers to northern Ireland’s more well-k...

4 June, 2025

Analogue (and analogue inspired) News and Tittle-Tattle – Newsletter June 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

Welcome to the June 2025 edition of A Round-up of Analogue (and analogue inspired) News from around the Globe, a Monthly tittle tattle of everything 35mmc related. Rest in Peace...

4 June, 2025

Zeiss Nettar – Cleaning and Bringing Life Back to a Flea Fair Find

By Roger

The story begins with a visit to a flea fair, where I succumbed to a Zeiss Nettar for what I hoped was a reasonable price. The paintwork was very chipped but the aperture was wo...

Meadow in Waverly

3 June, 2025

An Old Camera that Survives in a Small Town that Did Not

By Tim Piscitelli

The day was beautiful and the meadow I was standing in was quiet except for the birds in nearby trees. Without the signs placed around the meadow, you would never guess that I ...

3 June, 2025

Ad provider swap day…

By Hamish Gill

… please be aware, this might cause some weird things (including everyone seeing ads for a bit) Fingers crossed we shall be through the worst soon enough! Cheers,

3 June, 2025

Wales – Through the Twin Eyes of a Rolleiflex 3.5F Rollei Pan 25 and Rollei Retro 400s

By Ibraar Hussain

I’ve been digging in the vaults lately, having too much time on my hand and a new scanner I had been putting together an article on a Contax TVS I, TVS II, TVS II and T2 &...

2 June, 2025

Sony A99 – a review of the the first mirrorless full-frame EVF camera

By Bob Janes

In late 2012 Sony produced a full-frame mirrorless camera. The Sony A99. For some time, Sony had been hedging its bets with regards to digital cameras. It had long produced vide...

Photograph of a 35mm negative sheet filled with Kodak High Speed Infrared (HIE) negatives over a light table, with a Nikon FM film camera and deep red lens filter to the side.

1 June, 2025

5 frames Looking back at Kodak High Speed Infrared (HIE) through a Nikon FM

By Ben Wells

Kodak discontinuing its High Speed Infrared Black and White negative film – known as Kodak HIE – was, in my humble opinion, a far greater loss to the film photograph...

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Jeffery Luhn on Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography
Great article, Chad! I've made simple cameras using regular cardboard boxes and a single large magnifying glass lens. I exposed…
Simon King on Westminster Bridge Matam – My Most Divisive Photograph of 2025
Thanks. I err towards sharing, although I do appreciate the capacity for loss of context once something escapes me. Bigger…
Simon King on Westminster Bridge Matam – My Most Divisive Photograph of 2025
Thank you very much! I think it's that balance of the final outcome vs my memory/potential in the moment that…

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