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12 December, 2025

How Nissan Crossing Has Changed Over Time

By Andrea Monti

12 December, 2025

/ automotive photography, /

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As a petrolhead, I always make a point of visiting Nissan Crossing whenever I’m in Tokyo, even if only for a few hours or half a day. Situated in Ginza, one of Tokyo’s most exclusive districts, Nissan Crossing is an open space in which...

12 December, 2025

Towers – My favorite shot of 2025

By Omar Tibi

12 December, 2025

/ Architectural Photography, LOMO Voskhod, orwo un54, photo of the year 2025, /

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Everyone’s wonderful posts here have inspired me to review my reel, and as 2025 comes to a close, I think I need to offer up my own favorite from this year. And what a year it was! Between my Voskhod and Contax SLR system, I’ve shot hundreds...

Front of Ricoh FF-9SD

12 December, 2025

Ricoh FF-9SD Limited – Travails of a Transparent Camera in Central Asia

By Keith A Yeo

12 December, 2025

/ point and shoot camera, Ricoh FF-9S, Ricoh FF-9SD Limited, Ricoh Point & Shoot, /

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My grandfather had many cameras, he kept them in an old 1980s dry box, and it was only when he was spluttering with edema from his congestive heart failure did we even talk about cameras. But amongst the various clunky gear I sorted through a whil...

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11 December, 2025

Panasonic C—D 2200 ZM – Round Two

By Tony Warren

Panasonic C-D 2200 ZM, repairing light leak

11 December, 2025

Scarborough – My photograph of the year 2025.

By Steviemac

This picture was one of those happy instances of being in the right place when a subject placed itself right in front of me. The Mod couple were riding along the seafront at Sca...

11 December, 2025

In the Land of Fjords – Finding Scale with the XPan

By Tom Kluyver

Landscapes are a tough sell for me. I’m not a dedicated landscape photographer, and all too often, I find myself tiring of my own vista shots over time. My house only has ...

10 December, 2025

Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 135/4 – A Demanding Use Case

By Andrea Monti

For shooting Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at Teatro Marrucino, I took a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 lens as a backup for long shots. Master Adriano Lolli replaced the origina...

10 December, 2025

Predator Or Vampire: A Revision of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

By Andrea Monti

Yesterday night I was on the (back)stage of Teatro Marrucino for the premiere of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as always in my capacity of official photographer, with the goal of docum...

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Dave Powell on A Vast Illumination – My photograph of the year 2025
OK... Here we go!!! That's a fascinating, thought-provoking observation, Geoff! Because the subject is so strange, it’s taken me a…
Tony Warren on Towers – My favorite shot of 2025
I love moody shots like this one. Great. It also shows how important it is to understand fully what the…
Tony Warren on Panasonic C—D 2200 ZM – Round Two
Thank you Geoff. I simpathise having a serious attack of the floaters at the moment myself.

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