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Wild sunflowers growing in a gravel patch, with an out-of-focus stop sign in the background.

6 November, 2026

Back in the Game: Week One, Flowers

By Andrew Bridges

6 November, 2026

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At the end of 2022, I joined a weekly photo game run by Kenneth Wajda. Each week there was a prompt, and the rules were simple: shoot, develop, scan, and submit a photograph matching that prompt. If you missed a week, you were out. I lasted about ...

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6 November, 2026

My favourite photo of 2026 – isn’t even about photography

By Geoff Chaplin

6 November, 2026

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I just went to watch the sunset from the local viewpoint, grabbing my bag (with camera) as a matter of course. It was a beautiful calm evening, cooling after the heat of the day, and there was hardly a sound to be heard. The sky too was virtually ...

Australasian gannets gathered closely together.

6 November, 2026

ISO100 — Why Another Photography Portfolio Service?

By Elbert Alias

6 November, 2026

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I wanted a website for my photography, but I did not particularly want a website project. Social media gave me somewhere to post individual photographs, though not the way I wanted to present a larger selection. A photograph would appear in a feed...

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5 November, 2026

The Famous Five – One Shot Story

By Walter Reumkens

Things are a bit hectic in my life at the moment. Hot days – when, at 78, I don’t necessarily need to go out into the sun – alternate with rainy days, when I no longer want to c...

5 November, 2026

A Question of Scale – My Favourite Photo of 2026

By David Hume

This is my favourite photograph of the year. It’s not my best photo – it’s my favourite. The reason this is my favourite is because it shows what I’m playing with at the m...

5 November, 2026

Once upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s.

By Ibraar Hussain

I haven’t enjoyed any photography lately, and haven’t picked up a camera since early Summer when I last posted an article here, that was with my Voigtlander Ultramat...

4 November, 2026

Architecture of Compliance – Abbotsford Convent, Australia

By Ricardo Yamamoto

From 1863 until its deactivation in 1975, the Abbotsford Convent was one of the largest welfare institutions in Australia, receiving thousands of girls and women who were abando...

4 November, 2026

Ocean Baptism in the Thames Estuary at Southend-on-Sea – My Photograph of the year 2026

By Simon King

Last year, I reflected that I didn’t seem to have a clear stand out “best” photograph to share for this series, but this year I feel a little different. Anothe...

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Simon Bohrsmann on Saul for Seoul – A Nikonos III Shoots Street06/11/2026
Enjoyed the dreamy abstraction, David. Which is what appeals in Saul Leiter's work. The film is very giving - like…
Simon Bohrsmann on Ocean Baptism in the Thames Estuary at Southend-on-Sea – My Photograph of the year 202606/11/2026
Impressive work Simon. Capturing belief is difficult I think, but you have achieved it here.
Art Meripol on Back in the Game: Week One, Flowers06/11/2026
I really like your intention with all these. The cactus is fun and the depth was the way to go.The…
Bob Janes on My favourite photo of 2026 – isn’t even about photography06/11/2026
For the best shots, it is never about photgraphy, it is about the moment... Bravo!
Erik Brammer on My favourite photo of 2026 – isn’t even about photography06/11/2026
Indeed, Geoff, capturing moods through photography, to be reminded of them later. Even if this goes squarely against what Sally…

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