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24 November, 2025

The Case of Slowing Down in Photography

By Kyler Payne

24 November, 2025

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17 December, 2024

10 Shots from the Toronto Skate Scene

By David Smith

All photographers can ultimately be divided into two categories: the hip or the lame. The former, for example, includes grizzled, chain-smoking photojournalists wearing bullet-r...

16 December, 2024

Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

By Andrea Monti

What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, n...

16 December, 2024

Samyang Remaster Slim – a 3-for-1 Pancake Lens Review

By Hamish Gill

The Samyang Remaster Slim is possibly one of the most unusual lenses I have reviewed on this website – it’s a lens that I was more intrigued by than a great deal of the le...

15 December, 2024

You Never Know What You Might Find…

By Ron Duda

We are antiquers, my wife and I. Mostly in the fall and winter, and we’ll drive a bit to get to a good one. Late this past winter we took a 90 minute drive to Woodstock,...

15 December, 2024

Three days on a island with a roll of film

By Rodrigo Castro

One of the memories I have about photography is of family trips with a classic Olympus Trip 35. The camera is long gone, but some photos still remain with tones ranging from the...

14 December, 2024

How I modded Lomo LC-A+ into half-frame camera

By zhenyaetoya

I made a half-frame mod for the Lomo LC-A and LC-A+, inspired by a clipping from the Russian magazine “Foto&Video,” issue #8 from 1999. This mod has been brewing...

13 December, 2024

Working Undercover – A one (or two) shot story

By Paul Quellin

There were two remaining 5×4 sheets of Ilford Delta 100 left in a dark slide. The sun had finally emerged after weeks with heavily overcast skies. Working from the home off...

13 December, 2024

Olympus Trip 35 – Shooting my black camera in Munich

By Paul Lamb

The streets of Munich were the perfect place to put my black Olympus Trip 35 to the test. There’s nothing like exploring new places to get enthusiastic about taking pictures. An...

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