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20 December, 2025
Phoenix (I) Rising, or, How I Tame the Beast
Phoenix (1) Why Bother? When it was released a few years ago, Harman Phoenix was a welcome new kid on the block. Like most, I was eager to try it out. To begin with, I want to s...
20 December, 2025
Graveyard – My favourite photo of 2025
2025 was not a productive year photographically wise for me. A combination of a very minor but niggly medical issue combined with the rarest of things a great British summer and...
20 December, 2025
Andato a Monte
I’ve been taking photos for many years. Over the years, I’ve realized that I enjoy photographing places, whether deserted or crowded—because in them, like in people,...
19 December, 2025
Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025
With another year nearly closed off it’s time to fondly review this years photographic adventures. It’s been a tough year emotionally as I closed down my darkroom, a...
19 December, 2025
5 Frames with an APS film camera – the Fujifilm 1000ix Tiara
On 23 November 2025, our friend John Andrews showed us some of his fantastic photos taken with an APS film camera. Wonderful shots. We exchanged ideas, because, as befits a GAS ...
19 December, 2025
Fish market – my photo of the year 2025
I love fish markets and am drawn to them like an iron filing to a magnet. This one is in Puerto Princesa in Palawan, Philippines, where I spent a week in October. The whole of t...
19 December, 2025
Leidolf Lordomat & C35 – Hidden gems from Wetzlar
The Leidolf Lordomat is the most important camera in my collection because it belonged to my father. My father bought the camera around 1954. As an enthusiastic athlete, he also...
18 December, 2025
Denizen of the Lake – My Favourite Photograph of 2025
Nature is awesome – not just in the Lego-movie Everything is Awesome sense, but in the original, older sense of inspiring awe and reverence. This is more obvious when we go out ...
