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17 December, 2025

‘Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story’ – A Rare Glimpse at Some of my Professional Work

By Hamish Gill

17 December, 2025

/ Stage Performance Photography, /

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I don’t share much of my professional work on here – sometimes I wonder why, as honestly I think most of my hobby work is pretty basic, whereas I am quite proud of some of the professional work I produce. The most recent shots I have p...

Close-up shot of a worn wooden panel mounted on a tiled wall, displaying four rows of vintage, cream-colored rotary fan speed controllers and two bottom rows of electrical sockets. A small red fire extinguisher is mounted directly beneath the panel.

17 December, 2025

Kopitiam Command Centre – One Shot Story

By Keith A Yeo

17 December, 2025

/ Kodak Film, Kodak Gold 200, Yashica Electro 35GSN, /

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Shot on Kodak Gold 200 film, on a Yashica 35 GSN. Disclosure, I did straighten the photo digitally, because of the life of me it appears I can’t take a straight photograph. We are often drawn to the grand statements, the spotless new applian...

David Hume

17 December, 2025

Brahmaputra – My Photo of the Year 2025

By David Hume

17 December, 2025

/ Leica D-Lux-8, photo of the year 2025, travel photography, /

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In October and November of this year my wife and I spent three weeks in India, the first time there for both of us. Part of that time was spent in a week-long trip on the Brahmaputra River in the Assam region of north-east India. It was a wonderfu...

17 December, 2025

5 Frames of Croome Panorama Tower

By Roger

17 December, 2025

/ Kentmere 400, Kentmere Film, Olympus OM4, /

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Fairly near where I live there is an observation tower that is under the care of the National Trust, part of the Croome estate, but because it is in the middle of a field a couple of miles away from the main house and park, it is rarely open; this...

Latest Posts

14 May, 2025

Olympus iS-3000 ZLR Zoom lens Reflex, with Expired Fuji Reala 100

By Ibraar Hussain

This is a short review of the Olympus iS-3000 zoom lens SLR (aka iS-1 an L-1), for which I shot an expired roll of Fuji Reala 100. In hindsight I should’ve shot with a new...

The sun lit them both: the mask at the base of the fountain and the girl with the phone and the supermarket bag.

13 May, 2025

A Terrace with a View – A One Shot Story.

By Danilo Leonardi

In 2015, for several months, I spent three days a week working on the Isle of Wight. I would drive from London to Portsmouth, take the car ferry, and then travel to various loca...

13 May, 2025

Agfa Ultra 100 and Agfa Ultra 50 with a Contax G2 and Rolleiflex 6008i – The Perfect Summer Holiday Films

By Ibraar Hussain

AS swallows turning backward When half-way o’er the sea, At one word’s trumpet summons They came again to me – The hopes I had forgotten Came back again to me....

12 May, 2025

Nikkor D 40mm f4 and Bronica S2 – aka the Bronica SWFF (Super Wide & F-ing Fat)

By brianssparetime

Have you ever looked at the Hasselblad SWC and thought to yourself: I love this, but it just looks flimsy and insubstantial. And it’s not even a real SLR? I need to see wh...

11 May, 2025

The April 5 Protests Photographed from the Waist – My Rolleiflex Joins the Fray

By David Pauley

My Rolleiflex and I joined a crowd of a hundred thousand for the NYC “Hands Off” protests on April 5th (there were hundreds of parallel events in the U.S. and around...

Oxidorphines

10 May, 2025

Oxidorphines – the decaying beauty of corrosion

By BRUNO SAGUER

Oxidorphines is my journey, as an amateur, into the final breath of ships, into the rust that clings to their skin and the stories that sink with them. It is not merely a portra...

9 May, 2025

New ad partner incoming – can you help support the site with a few pennies a month?

By Hamish Gill

Those who follow the website will likely be familiar with my ongoing headaches with adverts – specifically with how, when and where they are displayed on the website. The ...

9 May, 2025

5 Frames with a Large Format Camera – The Death of a Giant

By CHRISTOF RAMPITSCH

I didn’t know that this silo’s days were numbered, I just liked the baked, dusty “Wall-E” vibe – if you ignore the plants (there weren’t any on Wall-E’s earth). Although the Int...

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