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Chandni Chowk Old Delhi

27 December, 2025

A Rainy Night in Chandni Chowk — My Photo of the Year 2025

By Danai

27 December, 2025

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

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I found myself in New Delhi, India, for a conference and took the opportunity to explore the local markets for some street photography. This image was taken on my first day in India, and I was definitely not prepared for what I was about to experi...

27 December, 2025

Black Rock Diving Tower – Best Photo of 2025

By Sasha Tsyrlin

27 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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Black Rock Diving Tower is an iconic landmark in Galway, Ireland. It is situated along the picturesque Salthill promenade overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This location has been photographed a million times but it was very great fun nonetheless to ...

Picture of a heifer wearing a bell and Swiss flags walking down a street as part of a parade.

27 December, 2025

Alpabfahrt – My 2025 Photo of the Year

By Theodore Crispino

27 December, 2025

/ Event Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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In September, my family hopped the ferry from Ireland to France and then drove from Brittany to Switzerland. This was all done to visit friends of ours who live in a small village outside of Lucerne. The husband grew up in the village and he had i...

27 December, 2025

Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography

By Chad Hill

27 December, 2025

/ afgan box camera, Benson Dry Plate Co., Box Camera, /

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Over the last few years I have been fascinated by the amazing story of Afghan Box Cameras. If you are not familiar with them, Afghan Box Cameras are a category of “instant” camera that was popular in Afghanistan from the 50s until the ...

Latest Posts

5 August, 2025

Voigtlander Bessamatic – A retrospective look at a marketplace find.

By Steve Kotajarvi

One of my daily routines includes a search in the local classifieds for cameras. Initially fueled by my obsession with finding “that perfect camera” and later to fin...

4 August, 2025

Crazy email nonsense – A quick note to contributors

By Hamish Gill

Apologies for the onslaught of email notifications today. We lost them all over the weekend, but when the dev guys attempted to fix this, they swung the needle too far the other...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By David Pauley

I want to start by thanking my fellow Brooklyner and 35mmc contributor Scott Ferguson for inviting me to join him in a new twist on a “Five Frames” presentation wher...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By Scott Ferguson

By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s...

One for Dave

3 August, 2025

Dreaming of the pool (One for Dave Powell)

By Geoff Chaplin

Reader discretion advised: references to extreme violence and an image of blood and gore – The featured image and the one below taken by my daughter on a smartphone. It wa...

3 August, 2025

Camera shutter testing device based on photodiode sensor and data-acquisition device

By Plane_wave

DIY sensor device for mechanical film camera shutter speed testing

2 August, 2025

Photographers in fiction

By Graham Spinks

I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...

Widelux F7 in wine country

2 August, 2025

Widelux in the Wine Country

By Zheng Li

For a recent family vacation to Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country, I opted for a single camera and lens: the Widelux F7. This swing-lens panoramic camera, fam...

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Chad Hill on Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography
A tough way to make a living, indeed! I am obviously nowhere near ready to start working as an instant…
Erik Brammer on Black Rock Diving Tower – Best Photo of 2025
This photograph does tell a story. The young bloke walking towards the promenade. Was he happy with his own diving…
Chad Hill on Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography
Very cool! I would love to come across people actually shooting these types of cameras. Do you know what they…

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