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Digital infrared photo of artichokes past their prime in Paris

25 July, 2025

Autumn Artichokes – An Ekphrastic* Poem (One Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Past their prime in a Paris garden. Abandoned artichokes. Wrapped in brown against autumn winds. Forgotten. Inedible. Suitable now for fall arrangements. Or compost. Grieving al...

24 July, 2025

It wos the camera wot done it – A one shot story

By Peter Roberts

Or to give it its full title, ‘Nothing to do wiv me, guv. It wos the camera wot done it, honest.’ Towards the end of a canal walk in North London on one of the hotte...

17 July, 2025

Still, Like Yesterday – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

My wife and I were seen as the lucky ones when we settled in Tasmania. We called it the great escape. Imagine this: fewer than six hundred thousand people living on a land of si...

16 July, 2025

Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Doesn’t every photographer hope to find an undiscovered niche? Something still un-tapped? I may have just: In what I dub “Potty Pareidolia”! Specifically, clean toilet paper tha...

14 July, 2025

Confronting Nonsense – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

Somewhere near the heart of a no man’s land on the Tibetan Plateau, China. The place is called Lenghu, which means Cold Lake. It was cold. Even in June, under a blinding sun, I ...

11 July, 2025

Jumping from the Canopy – One Shot Story

By Kohtli

Hidden deep on Mount Tsurugi on Shikoku Island, is the forest adventure park. It involves moving through obstacles while attached to a harness suspended roughly 30-40 feet above...

10 July, 2025

Tokyo Street Photography – A One Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

First, an admission: I don’t get the term “street photography.” I’ve always assumed that’s what we did when we just called it photography. But I realize this is probably a gene...

3 July, 2025

Meet Me Mum – One Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Of course, my mother isn’t a rubber frog! But this one may have been her second message to our family when she died. (More about the first one later.) It did not surprise us tha...

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