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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

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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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Analogue Photography: A Personal Journey – part 1 – Black & White, The Dictates of the Time

By Martin H

With the growing interest in analogue photography, as Bastian so inspiringly explores in his Analogue Adventures, I too have decided to create a series of film-related articles....

18 July, 2025

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By David Hume

I love a “Full Roll Friday” and I’ve done four of them in the past. But only one of mine was a full roll shot the conventional way – usually I’d find a way of cheati...

Still, Like Yesterday by Eagle Omomuro

17 July, 2025

Still, Like Yesterday – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

My wife and I were seen as the lucky ones when we settled in Tasmania. We called it the great escape. Imagine this: fewer than six hundred thousand people living on a land of si...

17 July, 2025

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By Tony Warren

Hanimex XP2 110 camera that is in need of attention.

Paper in water

16 July, 2025

Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Doesn’t every photographer hope to find an undiscovered niche? Something still un-tapped? I may have just: In what I dub “Potty Pareidolia”! Specifically, clean toilet paper tha...

16 July, 2025

Harman Phoenix II – My first roll and some brief thoughts on the development of this new film

By Hamish Gill

Harman have just announced the release of their second colour film, Phoenix II. As per the last few releases out of the factories in Mobberly, I have been lucky enough to have r...

16 July, 2025

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3

By Scott Ferguson

In Part 1 of this series, I was exploring the different black & white stocks I had in my Lightroom Library, looking at things I had already shot to try to see the impact tha...

Brussels sewers, Sonnar f1.5

15 July, 2025

Underground 1 – The Sewers, with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5

By Geoff Chaplin

The sewer museum in Brussels is entered through one of the former tax collection buildings at the Porte d’Anderlecht (left in the featured image) and exited through the building...

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