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21 August, 2024

Friday Night Lights – The Catch – A One Shot Story

By Bill Brown

The year was 1981 and I had recently received a certificate of completion for a film processing and printing class at Mountain View Community College located in Dallas County. I...

15 August, 2024

Bilbao in November rain (A One-Shot Story)

By Jens

We flew from Munich to Bilbao in mid-November 2022. Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, not far from the French border and located on the Atlantic Ocean. The city is known for i...

14 August, 2024

How Hercule Poirot Helped Me to Find a 6×6, or is the Voigländer Perkeo the Moka Pot of Cameras – A One Shot Story

By Jukka Reimola

My wife is an ardent fan of Hercule Poirot stories. Especially the TV-series kind, starred by Sir David Suchet. Some time ago she was wondering, whether the Poirot series could ...

13 August, 2024

Father, Son and a Texas Star – A One Shot Story

By Cameron Kilpatrick

After moving to Austin Texas in 2018 from Toronto Canada, I was eager to get out and shoot some film. I had come back to shooting film again from a decade or so of pray and spra...

9 August, 2024

An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story

By Danilo Leonardi

The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...

7 August, 2024

Shooting LF – Trying the Ultimate Inanimate Subject First – A One Shot Story

By Mathias Wedeken

My journey into photography started when I was about 7 years old, in the early 80s, when I got a very simple Agfa Instamatic sensor camera (it took 126 film) as a gift from my a...

2 July, 2024

Crete, a Welcome – A One Shot Story

By Klaus Döring

In the cool light of the morning the veils of fog lift. In front of the bow, foamy spray drifts across the deck. Like dewdrops, you break the first rays of sunshine with diamond...

30 June, 2024

Wind from northwest – One shot Story

By Klaus Döring

Vacation on the Baltic Sea in September. The last few weeks have been very nice. A wonderful sunset glow upon arrival. In the morning wind from northwest. On the beach with my c...

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