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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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The Socol 2 Automat camera on the table of a street cafe

22 May, 2025

5 Frames with the Sokol-2 Automat – Closing the Soviet Gestalt

By Alex Gridenko

My interest in photography began over 20 years ago with the purchase of my first camera, a digital point-and-shoot Canon G5. However, to be precise, there was another camera I g...

22 May, 2025

Panasonic Lumix GX7 – Travelling in The Rural Punjab

By Ibraar Hussain

The Year is 2015 and I find myself back in The Punjab region of Pakistan. A place which I’ve visited again and again and which I always look forward to, one of the many re...

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21 May, 2025

A Heads-Up for Ghost Hunters – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

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21 May, 2025

A Round-up of Analogue (and analogue inspired) News from around the World – May 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

Yashica FX-D Kickstarter Project What? I hear you say, a new Yashica FX-D? Wow! Well, not quite. The company known as Yashica (no relation to the Yashica, Kycocera, Contax and Z...

21 May, 2025

Paterson, old and new – A Tale of Two Tanks

By Bob Janes

Having recently completed a review of the LOMO daylight developing tank, I was drawn to think more about what for me has simply become part of the furniture for my processing re...

Frames iOS: Frame List

20 May, 2025

Introducing Frames – A New App to Log and Sync Film Photography Metadata

By Vincent

Three years ago, I introduced Datafilm to the 35mmc community—a minimalist iOS app aimed at helping film photographers log exposure settings and shooting notes. The response was...

Type 517 in R09

20 May, 2025

Type 517 developed in R09 – Life and Death in London

By Geoff Chaplin

Graffiti; Art or vandalism? A large area – many streets, bridges, car parks, stations – around Brick Lane in London are covered by ever changing Street Art: seen by some as the ...

19 May, 2025

Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush

By Ibraar Hussain

Once upon a time, Olympus Corporation followed Panasonic in releasing a compact Digital Camera with a fast lens, they out did Panasonic by adding a faster Zuiko lens with a 1.8 ...

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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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