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19 December, 2025

Harvest Moon – My favorite(ish) photo of 2025

By Eric Rose

With another year nearly closed off it’s time to fondly review this years photographic adventures. It’s been a tough year emotionally as I closed down my darkroom, a...

19 December, 2025

Fish market – my photo of the year 2025

By Simon Foale

I love fish markets and am drawn to them like an iron filing to a magnet. This one is in Puerto Princesa in Palawan, Philippines, where I spent a week in October. The whole of t...

18 December, 2025

Denizen of the Lake – My Favourite Photograph of 2025

By Sroyon

Nature is awesome – not just in the Lego-movie Everything is Awesome sense, but in the original, older sense of inspiring awe and reverence. This is more obvious when we go out ...

18 December, 2025

Vernality Redux – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Peter Roberts

As I write this the first cold snap is heralding the start of winter making me realise that as I grow older I am becoming more and more a fair weather photographer. Having spent...

Close-up shot of a worn wooden panel mounted on a tiled wall, displaying four rows of vintage, cream-colored rotary fan speed controllers and two bottom rows of electrical sockets. A small red fire extinguisher is mounted directly beneath the panel.

17 December, 2025

Kopitiam Command Centre – One Shot Story

By Keith A Yeo

Shot on Kodak Gold 200 film, on a Yashica 35 GSN. Disclosure, I did straighten the photo digitally, because of the life of me it appears I can’t take a straight photograph...

17 December, 2025

Brahmaputra – My Photo of the Year 2025

By David Hume

In October and November of this year my wife and I spent three weeks in India, the first time there for both of us. Part of that time was spent in a week-long trip on the Brahma...

16 December, 2025

Country Church – My photo of the year 2025

By Leon Winnert

I have always found myself being drawn to churches. Particularly small country churches. I don’t really seek them out. Mostly I just happen across them. Nevertheless, I was o...

16 December, 2025

Three-Card Monte in Rome – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Every now and then, Three-Card Monte scammers appear in unexpected places such as the narrow cobblestone streets between the Parliament and the Pantheon, in the centre of Rome. ...

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