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12 December, 2025

How Nissan Crossing Has Changed Over Time

By Andrea Monti

12 December, 2025

/ automotive photography, /

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As a petrolhead, I always make a point of visiting Nissan Crossing whenever I’m in Tokyo, even if only for a few hours or half a day. Situated in Ginza, one of Tokyo’s most exclusive districts, Nissan Crossing is an open space in which...

12 December, 2025

Towers – My favorite shot of 2025

By Omar Tibi

12 December, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, LOMO Voskhod, orwo un54, photo of the year 2025, /

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Everyone’s wonderful posts here have inspired me to review my reel, and as 2025 comes to a close, I think I need to offer up my own favorite from this year. And what a year it was! Between my Voskhod and Contax SLR system, I’ve shot hundreds...

Front of Ricoh FF-9SD

12 December, 2025

Ricoh FF-9SD Limited – Travails of a Transparent Camera in Central Asia

By Keith A Yeo

12 December, 2025

/ point and shoot camera, Ricoh FF-9S, Ricoh FF-9SD Limited, Ricoh Point & Shoot, /

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My grandfather had many cameras, he kept them in an old 1980s dry box, and it was only when he was spluttering with edema from his congestive heart failure did we even talk about cameras. But amongst the various clunky gear I sorted through a whil...

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

By Christopher Pye

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VEIL – a campaign to publish my book

By Lubomir Drapal

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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, ...

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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...

5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

I’ve seen some very nice posts on this site over the last couple of weeks, Scott Ferguson, Ibraar Hussain and myself even got to start critique about some posts, which I f...

5 December, 2025

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

By Julian Tanase

In September 2025 I was traveling for business in the SE of Romania. Given the good weather, I decided to travel by car, although distances are not a joke in these parts. As a s...

Woman holding cat

5 December, 2025

A Summer of Street Portraits on Film

By David Smith

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Robert Burns Earlier this year, I was feeling creatively stagnant. I’d taken hundreds of photos of my wife,...

Passengers waiting for a subway train

4 December, 2025

Harman Red in New York

By James Billings

I’ve recently returned home from my latest sabbatical – I’m lucky enough that my day-job employer gives me an extra 6 week break every 5 years! While I was in ...

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