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A woman in a blue dress and blue hat starts to walk towards a covered bridge. She is walking on a ramp covered with fallen brown leaves. Above her is a red maple tree with bright red leaves. The covered bridge has many small lights suspended from its ceiling.

29 December, 2025

A covered bridge in Alabama – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Don Kasak

29 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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This year was a big deal for me as far as photography goes. My enjoyment of shooting with film was rekindled, thanks to winning a barely-functional camera in a contest. One roll of film in this almost broken camera was enough to inspire me to find...

29 December, 2025

Charmera Review – Kodak has its charms, but this camera isn’t one of them

By David Kassnoff

29 December, 2025

/ Compact Digital, Toy Camera, /

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This week, I acquired the in-demand Kodak Charmera digital point-and-shoot camera. I teach an Art Photography class at a small U.S. university, and some students were intrigued by the thumb-sized camera — possibly as an alternative to a long...

sunflowers with a sunflare taken on film with a plastic camera

29 December, 2025

Sunflares and Sunflowers – My favorite photo of 2025.

By DeeDee Yelverton

29 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Superheadz White Slim Angel, /

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Summers where I live range from hot, very hot, to blistering hot. Thankfully, this year’s summer was only hot. That meant I was outside more often, which I love. I took this photo during one of those hot summer afternoons while on an afterno...

29 December, 2025

Kodak Eastman 5230 – The Time(s) I Shot This Curious Eastman Background Film

By Ron Duda

29 December, 2025

/ Kodak Eastman 5230, Kodak Film, /

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It was in late July this summer when I spotted a curious listing on Facebook Marketplace. The add was captioned “Kodak 5230 bulk film roll” and described simply as, “Black and white motion picture film 35mm format, never opened...

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Kissaten – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

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Nikon 200mm Medical-Nikkor – A Vintage Macro Lens with Built-in Ring Flash

By Dan Cuny

I am a lifelong Nikon fan and own a variety of Nikon cameras. I have very vivid memories of working in a camera store in the mid-to-late 1970s, where I spent almost 20 years. Th...

The Douglas Pine Family

7 December, 2025

They were yearning to become a photograph of the year

By Erik Brammer

Ok, drawing from corporate bullshit bingo, this was one of the few calls to action that I was keen on following: Hamish asking 35mmc contributors to submit their single photogra...

7 December, 2025

Departure – My Favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ron Duda

I shoot a lot of film. As of mid November I’ve exposed 106 rolls of 120 and 35mm film. All in glorious black and white. My approach is normally quite deliberate. I struggle ...

A Zeiss-Ikon Tenax I, a box of Kodak ColorPlus film, and a Zeiss-Ikon Taxona in its leather case.

7 December, 2025

5 frames of pulling color film two stops for no good reason

By Christopher Pye

I read plenty about pushing film when I dived into film photography a few years ago: you willingly underexpose your pictures and later compensate in development, leaving the fil...

6 December, 2025

VEIL – a campaign to publish my book

By Lubomir Drapal

When I started shooting film ten years ago, it wasn’t about returning to the past. It wasn’t nostalgia. It was more of an attempt to approach photography differently — without t...

6 December, 2025

Vintage cars, bikes and a bus ride

By John Andrews

Like a lot us from the older generation, meaning the geriatric brigade, brought up on milk, delivered to your door, red telephone boxes for phone calls and double Decker buses, ...

Osaka

6 December, 2025

Osaka with a Leica iiig and Summitar

By Geoff Chaplin

After a three hour drive and a two hour flight I needed a drink – I say ‘a’ euphemistically: beer, nihonshu (“sake”), red wine and whisky hit the spot but set the tone for the f...

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