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24 September, 2025

Day Out at The NPG – Part 2 – Kit – A One Shot Story

By Leon Winnert

Towards the end of my article Day Out at The NPG, Part 1 – Eddie, I very briefly introduced our photographic model for the day. Kit, a gentleman in his late 70s who is a profes...

23 September, 2025

Day Out at The NPG – Part 1 – Eddie – A One Shot Story

By Leon Winnert

Part 1 of a three-part post that has been inspired by my experiences of attending an analogue portraiture workshop in London.I kindly invite you to read on! I have been involved...

22 September, 2025

One Shot Story: An Epic Photo And Getting Caught With My Pants Down

By LASousa

This image was taken of Sakonnet Light in Little Compton, Rhode Island. The light was beautifully diffused from the offshore shroud created by Hurricane Erin. For support I ne...

19 September, 2025

Gravity on Pause – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

This a casual shot taken while I was wandering around without actually thinking about taking photographs. Setting aside the photographic quality of the image for a moment, I was...

18 September, 2025

Nicéphores window – A One Shot Story

By thorsten

Nadja and me we stopped in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes while travelling through France in the summer of 2022. Nicéphore Niépce experimented here with heliography. 200 years ago he us...

17 September, 2025

A Travel Through Time, Stupidity and Power

By Andrea Monti

This panoramic photo, taken with an iPhone, shows the four corners of a square in my hometown. As such, the photo has no particular merit or quality that justifies its public re...

16 September, 2025

One Shot Story – Resilience

By Tim Piscitelli

The year is 1938. It is 9 years into the Great Depression and my grandparents were a young couple with 3 children. Neither came from families that could offer anything in the ...

10 September, 2025

An Asian Lion Guarding an Italian Town – One (plus one) Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

Ofena is a small town located within the Abruzzo National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, in Italy, Hit by the 2009 earthquake, Ofena is still struggling to recover. L...

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Geoff Chaplin on Leica vs Leica – M vs R cameras & lenses and thoughts on Rangefinders & SLRs
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