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A black & white photo of a two skiers on a ski slope, with long afternoon shadows.

14 December, 2025

Shadows On-Piste – My Best Photo of 2025

By Harrison Matthew

14 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, travel photography, /

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My name is Harrison Matthew, and I am a hobbyist photographer with one foot each in film and digital, preferring rangefinders and always looking for ways to bury myself further in the photographic process. I took what I believe to be my best photo...

Forest, woman, sea, sunset

14 December, 2025

Through the woods to the shore – My image of the year 2025

By Klaus Wirz

14 December, 2025

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Since the reunification of Germany, traveling to the Baltic Sea beyond the former border has become uncomplicated, and I was one of the first to visit these places—frozen in time—as a tourist and have returned since then at least once a year. Befo...

14 December, 2025

Vintage Glass Plates – From Test to Print

By Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

14 December, 2025

/ Alternative Process, Glass Plate, ilford FP4+, /

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While an analogue photography habit can help us avoid the relentless tide of technological progress, it would be delusional to suggest it helps us (or me at least), avoid Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Despite owning most varieties of medium format ca...

Latest Posts

17 April, 2024

Film Folders – Pure nostalgia, with a few tips from long, long ago

By Roger

I was recently scanning some very old family photos to preserve them, as the negatives were not in the best of condition, and I found myself enjoying looking at the folders they...

Sony Mavica MVC-FD200

17 April, 2024

5 frames with Sony Mavica MVC-FD200, and a lesson in trusting your equipment

By Callum Stanton

My journey in photography started as an attempt to take photographs that I would have personal connection with, that could be used to remember a time or share my perspective on ...

16 April, 2024

Another YAWDISF Post

By Andrea Monti

Yes, this is another ‘why do I shoot film’ post, and no, the answers are not ‘because it slows me down’, ‘because it connects me to the act of taki...

16 April, 2024

5 (+2) Frames with a Pentax Q7 & Nikon 85mm 1.8 AFD (~400mm equivalent)

By Hamish Gill

In the run up to a recent holiday I had a sudden unshakeable desire to shoot my Nikon 85mm lens on my Pentax Q7. If you aren’t already aware, the Pentax Q7 has a fairly tiny sen...

15 April, 2024

Minolta Maxxum 7 – The Best for when you really have got to get that shot (on a budget)

By Ibraar Hussain

Early 2017 was a disaster, needless to say one thing lead to another and I then eventually was camera-less. You can imagine how that feels? Penniless yes, but cameras-less? Anyw...

14 April, 2024

5 frames with Kodak Shellburst 346 – the UFO film

By Philip

In my previous article about a roll of 40-years expired Kodacolor II, I stated that one of the main reasons for my interest in expired film is the fun of trying to get usable pi...

Kodak Professional Chemistry

13 April, 2024

NEWS: Kodak Professional B&W Chemistry is Available Now from Dupli and Cinestill

By Molly Kate

Sino Promise announced they were no longer manufacturing Kodak Professional photo chemistry around April of 2023 and the future of the well-loved product line became uncertain. ...

13 April, 2024

A Custom Tailored Shirt

By Joseph Irvin

Style wasn’t always my thing, and spending a lot of money on a custom-tailored shirt wasn’t something I’d always wanted to do but in this case it was inevitabl...

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Dan Cuny on Ilford Advocate Camera – A wonderful street camera
Kello Kevin, Thank you for your comment. The lens on the Advocate is really nice. I hope the digital conversion…
Scott Ferguson on Through the woods to the shore – My image of the year 2025
Hi Klaus, What a wonderful image, only enhanced by the historic context. The mix of conditions with heavy fog shrouding…
Scott Ferguson on Danse Macabre – my favorite photo of 2025
Thanks Geoff! That seems to be the consensus. Getting that kind of feedback from photographers I respect is a brilliant…

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