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15 November, 2025

5 Frames with Canon AE1 in California Wine Country

By Bradley Newman

In 1993, I was working for Dan Gurney’s All American Racers racing team. The team was in the midst of an historic run of successes in the IMSA GTP series, dominating by winning ...

Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022.

15 November, 2025

Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process

By Olivier Desmet

Image above: Golden Gate Bridge, Étude No. 14, San Francisco, USA. 2022. Most analogue photography enthusiasts, in 2025, are digital/analogue hybrid practitioners. Who amongst f...

14 November, 2025

The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

For decades, it was established in 1963, not only the students of the Liceo Classico on the other side of Via Venezia, but almost all the inhabitants of my hometown, paid a visi...

14 November, 2025

A Stone Igloo – My favourite photo of 2025

By Mark Ellerby

This photo was taken whilst on a hike with my local walking group, the Sheffield 40s/50s ramblers group, with my Rollei 35T that often comes with me on daywalks, because of its ...

14 November, 2025

Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera

By Ibraar Hussain

This post was one of my first few on 35mmc, that’s after lurking for a few years before I plucked up enough courage and audacity to get some of my photos and writing publi...

13 November, 2025

5 Frames with Kodak Portra 800 Pushed to 3200 at Thin Air Exhibition

By Kristian Smith

Portra 800 has always been a film stock reserved for “Special Occasions”. Frugal shooting doesn’t often lend to nearly £20 for a roll of 36 shots, so when I do decide to shoot a...

13 November, 2025

Editing, manipulating, lying, fake – towards an agreement of the meaning of words

By Peter Schu

Who put the cigarette filters there? There seems not to be a real consensus about photo editing and photo authenticity. The discussion is lively and appears to be endless. So, w...

12 November, 2025

Made in Hong Kong

By Raymond Wong

I was made in Hong Kong. I was born in Hong Kong in 1994, when the Union Jack was still on the Hong Kong flag. My mum is from Taiwan and my dad is a native HongKonger. Three yea...

Olivier Desmet on Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Hi Bud, Thanks for reading! I only dodge and burn if I find that my computer edits were not sufficient/adequate,…
Bud Parr on Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
This is great, and thanks for sharing. I’ve done the same process for platinum/palladium printing, but I really should try…
Olivier Desmet on Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Thanks for reading, Jens! The curve I use comes from a template that my buddy Matthew at Distphoto.com has created.…

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