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15 June, 2025

Riding and shooting the Warriors Race 2002

By Ryan Gardiner Johnson

15 June, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Fuji Superia 800, Fujifilm film, Nikon F90, Sports Photography, /

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A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 2

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First, many thanks to all for the collective wisdom and inspiration from the 35mmc community coming out of part 1 of this informal survey of b&w film. What started as a a f...

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This part 2 of a short series I decided to write, about local photo walks, some sort of inspiration for those looking for an excuse to pick up the camera and shoot something rat...

An Icelandic Horse doing a super-smooth "Tolt" as its rider holds a stein of beer without spilling a drop.

12 June, 2025

A Horse of Five Gaits – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Yes, in the above still from a short Fuji F31fd video, the rider is carrying a full stein of fine Icelandic beer! And she’s on a native Icelandic Horse. Reputedly, the pur...

12 June, 2025

A Summer of Cricket – Following a Junior Cricket Club Season

By Ibraar Hussain

The sound of leather on wood, tall poplar trees with cawing rooks nesting in the high branches, warm gentle summer breeze blows across the fields and gently caressing the grasse...

11 June, 2025

Remnants of the gone jolly days – A one shot story

By Julian Tanase

There is something intriguing about this photograph here, something that moves me in a way few of my photographs did. When I saw the harlequin head lying on a makeshift pile of ...

11 June, 2025

My five rules for taking street portraits

By David Smith

“Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.” — Michael Jordan Asking someone on the street for their portrait is a bit like asking someone on a dat...

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Fragments of Life – A One Shot Story

By Ibraar Hussain

For there upon a bed of soft wool lay the most splendid jewel, a jewel such as Dyson had never dreamed of, and within it shone the blue of far skies, and the green of the sea by...

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Scott Ferguson on A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 2
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