One Shot Story Archives

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...

A fast-foot restaurant under the JR Yamanote line tracks in Tokyo, Japan.

9 September, 2025

Tokyo At Night – A One-Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

The goal of every travel photographer is to capture the essence of a place or a people in a single image. The challenge – beyond the obvious technical issues related to hauling ...

2 September, 2025

Me and a Fish (Circa 1960) – A One Shot Story

By Curtis Heikkinen

One of my most vivid memories of growing up on Twenty Mile Stream Road in Proctorsville, Vermont, is of pulling that brook trout out of the small brook that flowed in back of ou...

22 August, 2025

The Shape of Loneliness – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

Taken in Boston, January 2011 with the Minolta 500mm f/8 reflex on my Alpha 9. At this focal length, even ordinary things become intriguing. It’s a perspective I don’t have with...

18 August, 2025

Robert Frank’s View in Butte, Montana – One Shot Story

By John Bennett

When my wife, Darby, and I mapped out our recent road trip through the American West, it was not our intention to follow the same route that Robert Frank took in the mid-1950s w...

8 August, 2025

The Clawfoot Tub – A One-Shot Story

By David Smith

My wife, Dawn, is a good sport. She never complains when I take her photo, even when she’s having a bad day. But her patience has limits. Boudoir shots are off limits, and I nee...

6 August, 2025

One Shot Story – What Souvenirs Say About Rome (and Your Attitude Toward Life)

By Andrea Monti

Rome’s souvenir shops are full of busts, plaques and other artefacts mixing the sacre and the profane —and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with the Eternal C...

5 August, 2025

Bentley JPG 378 – a One Shot Story.

By Richard Becker

Of what follows almost nothing could be true, or it all could be. The problem is that it comes mainly from my childhood memories and there is no-one left to corroborate or not. ...

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