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A woman in a blue dress and blue hat starts to walk towards a covered bridge. She is walking on a ramp covered with fallen brown leaves. Above her is a red maple tree with bright red leaves. The covered bridge has many small lights suspended from its ceiling.

29 December, 2025

A covered bridge in Alabama – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Don Kasak

29 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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This year was a big deal for me as far as photography goes. My enjoyment of shooting with film was rekindled, thanks to winning a barely-functional camera in a contest. One roll of film in this almost broken camera was enough to inspire me to find...

29 December, 2025

Charmera Review – Kodak has its charms, but this camera isn’t one of them

By David Kassnoff

29 December, 2025

/ Compact Digital, Toy Camera, /

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This week, I acquired the in-demand Kodak Charmera digital point-and-shoot camera. I teach an Art Photography class at a small U.S. university, and some students were intrigued by the thumb-sized camera — possibly as an alternative to a long...

sunflowers with a sunflare taken on film with a plastic camera

29 December, 2025

Sunflares and Sunflowers – My favorite photo of 2025.

By DeeDee Yelverton

29 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Superheadz White Slim Angel, /

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Summers where I live range from hot, very hot, to blistering hot. Thankfully, this year’s summer was only hot. That meant I was outside more often, which I love. I took this photo during one of those hot summer afternoons while on an afterno...

29 December, 2025

Kodak Eastman 5230 – The Time(s) I Shot This Curious Eastman Background Film

By Ron Duda

29 December, 2025

/ Kodak Eastman 5230, Kodak Film, /

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It was in late July this summer when I spotted a curious listing on Facebook Marketplace. The add was captioned “Kodak 5230 bulk film roll” and described simply as, “Black and white motion picture film 35mm format, never opened...

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8 August, 2025

The Clawfoot Tub – A One-Shot Story

By David Smith

My wife, Dawn, is a good sport. She never complains when I take her photo, even when she’s having a bad day. But her patience has limits. Boudoir shots are off limits, and I nee...

8 August, 2025

Konica C35 – Bringing a 60s rangefinder back to life with a bit of tape

By Mike Riess

Over the past few years, I’ve become enamored with late 60s/early 70s rangefinder cameras. Not the Leicas, mind you — budget won’t allow — but I have found great joy in shootin...

7 August, 2025

A Broken Nikon F55 – Just shoot me…

By Christopher Deere

…or, How I (kinda) learned to let go (a little, maybe) of my control-freak mentality and surrendered myself to the simple joy of point-and-shoot photography…(For a w...

7 August, 2025

5 Frames at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Canada

By Ron Duda

Here in Hamilton, Canada we’re blessed with hundreds and hundreds of acres of preserved natural areas which are mostly managed by the Hamilton Conservation Authority. I’ve phot...

Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL camera from the front surrounded by 35mm film canisters

6 August, 2025

5 Frames with the Voigtlander Vitoret 110 EL and Lomography Orca

By Benjamin Chan

Although I don’t shoot 110 film much, maybe 1-2 rolls a year, I do enjoy it. But it’s a hassle and options for film stocks are limited with Lomography being the only...

6 August, 2025

One Shot Story – What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)

By Andrea Monti

Rome’s souvenir shops are full of busts, plaques and other artefacts mixing the sacre and the profane —and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with the Eternal C...

Chroma Six:9 camera and Rodenstock 70mm

6 August, 2025

Rodenstock Apo-Sironar Digital 70mm F5.6 – Adapting a digital medium format lens to film

By Simon Foale

A few years ago the managers of the university I work for decided that the Creative Arts department, which taught a number of photography subjects, was insufficiently profitable...

Old B&W image of a Bentley.

5 August, 2025

Bentley JPG 378 – a One Shot Story.

By Richard Becker

Of what follows almost nothing could be true, or it all could be. The problem is that it comes mainly from my childhood memories and there is no-one left to corroborate or not. ...

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