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5 December, 2025

The long way back home – my photo of the year 2025

By Julian Tanase

5 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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30 March, 2024

My Return to Film – More than Nostalgia

By Andrew Rudge

My return to film has become more than a nostalgia trip. Having grown up with film, learning how to develop and print at school in the 1970s, film filled my formative years. Lik...

29 March, 2024

HassyPB Review – It Makes Photos That People Want To Take From You

By Nick Orloff

This is a review of the HassyPB, but before I tell you about that bit of kit, let me take a short diversion to tell you how I arrived here. I enjoy a little bit of instant photo...

28 March, 2024

5 Frames with a Praktica MTL5B, a Pentacon 50/1,8 and a Roll of Portra 400 (expired in 2011)

By Andrea Monti

An afternoon of urban exploration looking for derelicted places gave me the chance to test a Praktica MTL 5b with its standard (pun intended) lens: the Pentacon 50/1,8, which I ...

28 March, 2024

5 Frames from a Seaside Town with a Nikon F4

By Peter McGowan

This is a tale of linking eras and styles, the vintage with the modern, the hefty with the lightweight. The heavy, old (1993) Nikon F4 with the svelte new (2021) Voigtländer Col...

27 March, 2024

5 frames with Ilford Delta 3200 and Canon EOS 7

By Orrin Heath

The Nanakuri Shrine Autumn Naked Festival (七久里神社秋季祭典宵祭り) is held annually in Iida city, Nagano prefecture, Japan. Nanakuri Shrine is tucked away on the outskirts of ...

27 March, 2024

Give Broken Ones a Chance – Shooting a Damaged Leica CL

By Dave Powell

If you had spotted the above Leica CL film camera on eBay, it might have been described like this: USED LEICA CL (For Parts or Repair) The camera’s viewfinder is missing its fro...

26 March, 2024

Found Out – A one shot story

By Paul Quellin

The year before, the health service had offered free Covid and Flu jabs for folk of a certain age and becoming more aware of the advancing years I had availed myself. Come the s...

26 March, 2024

Kodak Retina IIc – My Journey and Discovery

By Bob Israel

I recently started shooting film. I should say, I recently started shooting film again. Back in the 80s, I shot mostly slide film as I began to explore photography. I was very m...

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