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5 December, 2025

The long way back home – my photo of the year 2025

By Julian Tanase

In September 2025 I was traveling for business in the SE of Romania. Given the good weather, I decided to travel by car, although distances are not a joke in these parts. As a s...

5 December, 2025

A Summer of Street Portraits on Film

By David Smith

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Robert Burns Earlier this year, I was feeling creatively stagnant. I’d taken hundreds of photos of my wife,...

Sunset light grazing a church roof, steeple, clouds and then reflecting off the moon

4 December, 2025

A Vast Illumination – My photograph of the year 2025

By Dave Powell

Just a glance at this vast illumination showed me how hard light has to hustle to deliver our personal realities. Blasting along at 186,282 miles a second, rays from the sun set...

4 December, 2025

Horseman 980 – A Seasonal Essay

By Jon Bosak

Most people coming into film photography start with the camera and then try to figure out how to scan the results. I went the other way. I shot film for 30 years, finally switch...

3 December, 2025

Night Shooting on Halloween with a Leica M3 and a Contax T2

By Scott Ferguson

Halloween, 2025 has been on my calendar as a shooting opportunity for a couple of months. In NYC the scale of the revelry is epic, including a giant parade in the West Village ...

A square image of A Covered shopping arcade in the evening

3 December, 2025

A Covered shopping arcade in the evening – My Favorite Photo of 2025

By Keith A Yeo

2025 involved me traveling a bit for work and pleasure. On one particular trip, my partner accompanied me to Prague and Vienna for a few days before she flew back and I remained...

3 December, 2025

5 Frames with the Pentax K SMC 85mm f/2.2 Soft Focus Lens

By mark stein

What started as an experiment out of curiosity has apparently become serious, or at least a lot more expensive: I’ve bought a “proper” Soft Focus lens, and I h...

2 December, 2025

5 Frames with a FED-3 Rangefinder with Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm

By Walter Reumkens

In mid-2025, I added a Soviet 35mm rangefinder camera, an FED-3 with an Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm lens, to my collection. The camera and lens had been freshly CLA’d and wer...

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