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23 December, 2025

High Surf, Thick Fog — My favorite photography of the year 2025

By John Eaton

23 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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Like others on 35mmc, I was immediately attracted by Hamish’s invitation to submit one’s favorite photo of the year – in my case because I believed that I had just shot it in early November! However, to date I haven’t been a contributor to 35mmc,...

23 December, 2025

Bad Luck at Heian Jingu Shrine – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

23 December, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, ilford HP5+, Nikon 35ti, /

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As it is customary in Japanese Shinto shrines, also the Heian Jingu in Kyoto has an area where bad luck is left hanging in the open. 御御籤 —o-mikuji—are small strips of paper that people can choose at random to find out their fortune. As every to...

The Carousel Bar

23 December, 2025

The Carousel Bar at Hotel Monteleone – My 2025 picture of the year

By Jonathan Murray

23 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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Photography has been part of my life for half a century. At thirteen, living on Royal Air Force Base Akrotiri in Cyprus, I joined the base photography club and found myself under the guidance of an RAF press photographer. He taught me the basics —...

pic of Mamiya C220, plus a Mamiya C33 and spare lens

23 December, 2025

5 Frames With a Mamiya C220

By Victor Dively

23 December, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Mamiya C220, /

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This past year I decided to focus on black and white film photography and to tackle landscape photography. For me, that has been a hard challenge. My occasional attempts at landscape photography while out hiking and looking for wildlife have alway...

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18 May, 2025

Shooting Italian 5 birilli

By Andrea Monti

Thanks to the support of the Italian Federation of Sport Billiards, I had the opportunity to access the playing area of a billiards national competition with the students of the...

17 May, 2025

Lego Ideas Polaroid Onestep SX-70 camera – A non-camera camera review

By Bob Janes

This is an odd review because rather than being a review of a camera, it is a review of a Lego model of a camera. For my {hurumphty}3 rd birthday, one of my sons and his wife bo...

16 May, 2025

Kodak Z990 Easyshare Max – The last Eastman Kodak Camera

By Ibraar Hussain

Ah Kodak, fond memories and probably the first name which comes to mind when thinking of either Film or Photography. How the mighty have fallen. This wasn’t the last Eastm...

15 May, 2025

Financial Support for 35mmc – Part 3

By Hamish Gill

Hi again, all. Sorry this is turning into a bit of a saga! To a degree, I blame you good folks for having so many suggestions as to how to better fund 35mmc. Joking aside, thank...

15 May, 2025

5 frames with an Olympus Trip 35 and Kentmere 100

By Roger

The Olympus Trip 35 is a very widely sold and used camera, and having heard good things about it, I was happy when I recently acquired one, and I packed it on a trip to Paris. N...

15 May, 2025

Hipstamatic – Work on your Square compositions with the Coolest iPhone Photo Camera

By Ibraar Hussain

Hipstamatic brings all the joy, quirk, and randomness of analog film photography to your iPhone. Now, bring your friends along and share photos like it’s 2009. The most authenti...

14 May, 2025

Thank you for the support – it has meant a lot! (and a quick question)

By Hamish Gill

The other day I posted about my ongoing advert provider woes and the impending change of supplier that was beginning to make me nervous. I really wasn’t expecting the leve...

14 May, 2025

Olympus iS-3000 ZLR Zoom lens Reflex, with Expired Fuji Reala 100

By Ibraar Hussain

This is a short review of the Olympus iS-3000 zoom lens SLR (aka iS-1 an L-1), for which I shot an expired roll of Fuji Reala 100. In hindsight I should’ve shot with a new...

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