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21 December, 2025

Here Comes The Bride – A One-Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

21 December, 2025

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This photograph is a reminder of the benefits of waiting, combined with some local knowledge. It was made at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, a Shinto religious complex built to honor the Meiji Emperor who guided Japan’s entry into the modern world at t...

21 December, 2025

A Warm Summer Night – My photo of the year 2025

By Rollin Banderob

21 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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When I read about sharing my photo of the year on 35mmc I immediately thought of this image from a community event on a warm August night in Iowa. Early this year I decided to try to get back to my photojournalism roots and volunteered for a staff...

21 December, 2025

By Eagle Omomuro

21 December, 2025

/ Abstract Photography, Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35, /

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The first roll from my recently acquired Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35 is soft, partly due to its toyish optics and partly because of its quirky AF mechanism. It is so soft that I can hardly tell whether the focus point is lost somewhere inside or ...

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1 March, 2024

Soligor 35mm f/3.5 – A Cheap and Cheerful Softie

By Mark Ellerby

I bought this from Real Camera because I wanted a wider-than-50mm lens for my Praktica SLR, not having any idea who Soligor are/were (and still not much the wiser). It was cheap...

29 February, 2024

(森林浴) Shinrin-Yoku or Forest Bathing Might Be the Best Thing for You and Your Photography

By Eric Charles Jones

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to...

29 February, 2024

That Time I Built an X-Pro1/Monitor-Six-20 “FrankenFuji”

By Dave Powell

In my days before 35mmc, Jim Gray published this article on his great “Down the Road” site. It described how and why I adapted a 1940’s Kodak Monitor Six-20 le...

28 February, 2024

Defining Environmental Automotive Portraiture

By grain_frame

Like any photographer, I can see reoccurring themes in my work. Thoughts or ideas that I go back to, again and again, in order to re-explore or develop further. One of the most ...

28 February, 2024

Canon EOS A2 – An Odd Little GAS Journey.

By Eric

Why an odd GAS journey? I am glad that I imagined you asked. I recently wrote a post on my blog about me finally caving in and getting a Vintage Digital (Disclaimer: “Vint...

27 February, 2024

Terrorists in the Swat Valley – A One Shot Story

By Ibraar Hussain

It was 2007 and I was standing on the rooftop balcony looking over the rural fields and hills of the Northern Punjab, where I was with my hero aka my late Father. “DadR...

27 February, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtländer Vito CLR

By Eddie Greening

A few months ago, whilst meandering through some local markets in Germany, I came across a table full of old cameras in various states of disrepair. Being addicted to film camer...

26 February, 2024

Do we need to take a step back in film photography?

By Julian Tanase

In recent years, I have developed a taste for and enjoy taking photographs with film cameras that are helping me in getting a decent image, with the minimal effort from my part;...

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Patrick Medd on Here Comes The Bride – A One-Shot Story
Great shot! And it just goes to show the quality you can get from a 70 year old lens and…
Michael Flory on Here Comes The Bride – A One-Shot Story
That is superb! It's been so many years since I've been to Meiji Jingu that I've forgotten what those almost-infrared-white…
Walter Reumkens on 5 Frames with an APS film camera – the Fujifilm 1000ix Tiara
Thank you for your comment, Omar! I'm glad you like the pictures. APS films were state-of-the-art emulsions, if not further…

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