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5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

5 December, 2025

/ Learning Journeys, /

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I’ve seen some very nice posts on this site over the last couple of weeks, Scott Ferguson, Ibraar Hussain and myself even got to start critique about some posts, which I find marvellous. It is, for me, the way to grow, to learn, and try new ...

5 December, 2025

The long way back home – my photo of the year 2025

By Julian Tanase

5 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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In September 2025 I was traveling for business in the SE of Romania. Given the good weather, I decided to travel by car, although distances are not a joke in these parts. As a secondary goal, I wanted to check out the famous landscape of Dobrudja,...

Woman holding cat

5 December, 2025

A Summer of Street Portraits on Film

By David Smith

5 December, 2025

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O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Robert Burns Earlier this year, I was feeling creatively stagnant. I’d taken hundreds of photos of my wife, son, and friends. As beautiful as they are, I needed a change of subj...

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Passengers waiting for a subway train

4 December, 2025

Harman Red in New York

By James Billings

I’ve recently returned home from my latest sabbatical – I’m lucky enough that my day-job employer gives me an extra 6 week break every 5 years! While I was in ...

Sunset light grazing a church roof, steeple, clouds and then reflecting off the moon

4 December, 2025

A Vast Illumination – My photograph of the year 2025

By Dave Powell

Just a glance at this vast illumination showed me how hard light has to hustle to deliver our personal realities. Blasting along at 186,282 miles a second, rays from the sun set...

4 December, 2025

Horseman 980 – A Seasonal Essay

By Jon Bosak

Most people coming into film photography start with the camera and then try to figure out how to scan the results. I went the other way. I shot film for 30 years, finally switch...

3 December, 2025

Night Shooting on Halloween with a Leica M3 and a Contax T2

By Scott Ferguson

Halloween, 2025 has been on my calendar as a shooting opportunity for a couple of months. In NYC the scale of the revelry is epic, including a giant parade in the West Village ...

A square image of A Covered shopping arcade in the evening

3 December, 2025

A Covered shopping arcade in the evening – My Favorite Photo of 2025

By Keith A Yeo

2025 involved me traveling a bit for work and pleasure. On one particular trip, my partner accompanied me to Prague and Vienna for a few days before she flew back and I remained...

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