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26 November, 2025

One By Four – A One Shot Story Told by Four Photographers – Part 3

By Dean Lawrence

26 November, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, /

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After Scott Ferguson and David Hume’s posts a short while back and the comments within them, I was surprised to be asked to contribute. Surprised and terrified to be honest, but it has been a wonderful experience. I don’t have the expe...

26 November, 2025

No Kings – My photo of the year (so far) 2025

By Art Meripol

26 November, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Portrait Photography, /

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This photo was also part of a recent post I shared here on 35mmc. Apologies for sharing it twice in quick succession, but this image also fits the idea of my favorite photo of the year. I’ve shot almost 50 commercial jobs this year but this ...

26 November, 2025

One By Four: a One Shot Story told by Four Photographers – Part 4

By David Pauley

26 November, 2025

/ Street & Urban Photography, /

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Winter Sunlight, NYC, 2025. Rolleiflex 2.8F, Zeiss Planar f2.8, light yellow filter. Tri-X 400. This post is the final installment of a four-way conversation between Scott Ferguson, David Hume, Dean Lawrence, and myself on four photographs from ou...

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Introducing Frames – A New App to Log and Sync Film Photography Metadata

By Vincent

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By Geoff Chaplin

Graffiti; Art or vandalism? A large area – many streets, bridges, car parks, stations – around Brick Lane in London are covered by ever changing Street Art: seen by some as the ...

19 May, 2025

Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush

By Ibraar Hussain

Once upon a time, Olympus Corporation followed Panasonic in releasing a compact Digital Camera with a fast lens, they out did Panasonic by adding a faster Zuiko lens with a 1.8 ...

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Shooting Italian 5 birilli

By Andrea Monti

Thanks to the support of the Italian Federation of Sport Billiards, I had the opportunity to access the playing area of a billiards national competition with the students of the...

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Lego Ideas Polaroid Onestep SX-70 camera – A non-camera camera review

By Bob Janes

This is an odd review because rather than being a review of a camera, it is a review of a Lego model of a camera. For my {hurumphty}3 rd birthday, one of my sons and his wife bo...

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