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The Douglas Pine Family

7 December, 2025

They were yearning to become a photograph of the year

By Erik Brammer

7 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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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 photograph of the year of 2025 – and for readers to become contributors....

7 December, 2025

Departure – My Favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ron Duda

7 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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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 with composition and sometimes in difficult conditions, measuring exp...

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

7 December, 2025

/ Film Theory, /

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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 film longer in the chemicals. The main outcome expected from pushing is m...

Latest Posts

3 October, 2025

“Half Framing” Practically Any Film Camera (Part 1 of 2)

By Dave Powell

I love creativity of all kinds. But it has taken me down some strange rabbit holes (like here, here, here and here). This article is another. I hope you find it interesting and ...

2 October, 2025

VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions

By Hamish Gill

I have for a while now been meaning to find a way to restart having chats with photographers I have become friends with through the website. I loved making the occasional videos...

2 October, 2025

A Few More Shots From An Urban Exploration Trip

By Andrea Monti

Hip-hoppers and skateboarders are often seen together in many urban landscapes. Actually, these performing arts come from different US social and geographical milieus. However, ...

2 October, 2025

5 Frames with a Kodak Pocket A-1, Kodak’s most pointless camera

By Michael Zwicky-Ross

The Kodak Pocket A-1 was a 110-format camera introduced by Kodak in 1978. In 1980 (and I cannot believe they made it for more than two years) it was renamed Kodak Brownie. It is...

2 October, 2025

Sony RX1R and the Illusion of Alternatives

By Sien Hong

When Sony announced the RX1R III, my mind immediately leapt back to the original RX1R – a camera I had once carried, loved, and ultimately let go. The cost of the RX1R III...

1 October, 2025

To CineMot Coimbra, with love

By Alastair Holland

For anyone who doesn’t know, CineMot is a company based in Porto, Portugal, that takes spools of old Kodak Cine film and re-spools it into the typical 36-exposure rolls. They re...

1 October, 2025

Beyond the Fog: 36 Views of Richmond Park

By Danilo Leonardi

Each autumn, the pictures return. Mist hangs over the bracken, dawn light glows orange, and in the centre a stag, antlers catching the first rays or head tilted back in a roar. ...

The author's Minolta HiMatic9 Rangefinder

30 September, 2025

5 Frames with my Minolta HiMatic 9

By Daimon Tilley

Recently I posted a 5 Frames featuring my Minox 35GT, a lovely and tiny 35mm camera which gave me pleasing results. Well, this post is about my recent experience with the latest...

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Erik Brammer on Departure – My Favourite Photograph of 2025
Indeed, a great photograph which wins so much from the fact that the other end of the tunnel is completely…
Walter Reumkens on Vintage cars, bikes and a bus ride
With a little more thought, I should have realised that it's a 35mm/f1.8 on a D7000. I think it's a…
Erik Brammer on They were yearning to become a photograph of the year
Thank you, Michael! This is the converted scan of the negative. The print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin looks much…

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