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Paper in water

16 July, 2025

Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

16 July, 2025

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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 that forms a likeness of something else when tossed in the bowl. Sort of ...

16 July, 2025

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

By Hamish Gill

16 July, 2025

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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 received a few rolls to shoot and write about in the run up to the offi...

16 July, 2025

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

By Scott Ferguson

16 July, 2025

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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 that a film stock has on the quality of the photos. In Part 2 I was clea...

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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...

15 July, 2025

Leica M7 – A Trial Run, and My Decision Not to Keep It

By David Pauley

Quiet for quite some time, my Gear Acquisition Syndrome perked up last month, in the middle of my Year of the Rolleiflex, when I spied a “deal” at a large Manhattan ...

14 July, 2025

Confronting Nonsense – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

Somewhere near the heart of a no man’s land on the Tibetan Plateau, China. The place is called Lenghu, which means Cold Lake. It was cold. Even in June, under a blinding sun, I ...

14 July, 2025

Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax

By Ibraar Hussain

(Title Photo – only one of two photos of the G2 unfortunately with me in it! Yuk! 2009) This will be my last post on a Contax G2 I used to have (last but one), and which I...

13 July, 2025

Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI

By Andrea Monti

I was curious to see how an AI would handle a bad photo, so I uploaded this black-and-white shot taken in the area around Kyoto Station with my Nikon 35TI. The photo itself —the...

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Ibraar Hussain on A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3
80s is one of my favorites - given the right light and with at least a yellow filter it gives…
Ibraar Hussain on Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story
That’s exactly what I thought - melting ice sculpture
Michael Jardine on Underground 1 – The Sewers, with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5
My £0.02-worth... I just tried Delta 400 with the expensive proprietary developer (DD-X) which I had understood was super-flexible when…

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