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15 March, 2021

Film Photography is Not about Serendipity (for me)!

By Hamish Gill

I don’t shoot film for the “serendipitous nature” of it. I know this is something a lot of people embrace and get a lot of enjoyment out of when shooting film. But for the large...

14 March, 2021

It’s Interesting Because It’s Old – A One Shot Story – By Gerard Exupery

By Gerard Exupery

When I was a child, I got it into my head that anything that took place before I was born happened in black and white. Not so unusual when most televisions were black and white ...

14 March, 2021

5 Frames with the Haynes Classic Camera Kit – By Alex Wilden

By Alex Wilden

I’ve always wanted to build my own camera. In fact, I bought a 3d printer at the start of 2020 with that intention. While that particular project is ongoing I decided to do some...

13 March, 2021

Markets in Yemen with a Pentax MZ-5 – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

Yemen, an impressive country, with a rich folklore and good people but always immersed in problems. In the spring of 1999 I took a tourist trip that I will never forget accompan...

11 March, 2021

How I Lost the Washington Monument – by Simon King

By Simon King

Despite how far I feel I've come both personally and professionally over the last few years there are still times where I'm really knocked back a step, and reminded just how muc...

11 March, 2021

Minox 110S Mini-Review of a Clever Cassette Camera – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

The Minox 110s was introduced in 1974. The internet tells me that this camera was not produced by Minox at all, but by Balda in Germany, who also were also involved in manufactu...

10 March, 2021

Too Big To Fail – A Visual Acknowledgement – By Nico Klein-Allermann

By Nico Klein-Allermann

When Corona made its way into society in early 2020, it was something completely new for the world. Many people, including us, were afraid and were unsettled. How dangerous is t...

10 March, 2021

Glastonbury Rathyatra – The Only Chariot Festival of 2020 – By Sagar Kharecha

By Sagar Kharecha

One late evening my father received a call from ‘Mahaprabhu Dasa’, a stalwart devotee. Mahaprabhu informed us that a ‘Rathyatra’ would soon take place in Glastonbury town centre...

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