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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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18 February, 2024

A Wet and Misty Thames Walk with a Leica iiig and 50mm Summar

By Geoff Chaplin

A walk with a Leica iiig from the late 1960s (recently restored by PPP cameras) and Summar lens from the 1930s, at first finishing off a Silvermax roll then Fomapan 100 and RPX ...

17 February, 2024

5 (square) frames with a Zeiss Ikon Tenax I and Ilford XP2 Super

By Stuart Jenkins

For a while I’d been looking for a nice 35mm camera that would shoot square 24x24mm frames. It’s a format that appeals to me, because you never have to turn the came...

16 February, 2024

Trying Darkroom Printing for the First Time

By Ted Ayre

Well, it’s been quite a journey down the rabbit-hole of film photography! Can you believe it’s been over a year since I first started? I’ve gone from writing &...

16 February, 2024

5 Frames with Five Fifties and a Leica SL (Typ 601)

By Marc Volovic

The bearded man passed the grey box to me. It was heavy, heavier than I expected. It also had it inside. It sensed I had it and it called to me. I hefted the box, looking uncert...

15 February, 2024

5 Frames in Greece with the Contax T3

By Chantel Wakefield

First: WOW. What a privilege to even type the title of this one. Me? Jetting off to Greece? For 10 days? With a Contax T3?! Yeah, that happened. I stuffed my essentials in a sin...

15 February, 2024

5-ish Frames with a Kodak Tourist II

By Art Meripol

Like many photographers who have been shooting for years I have a cabinet of old cameras. Some were given to me as gifts and quite a few are cameras I used in my work over the y...

14 February, 2024

Home Run Towards Happiness – One Shot Story

By Joanna Uruchima

Last summer, I attended my first Chicago White Sox game with someone I was once close to at the time. I was always eager to attend their games, especially since I grew up playin...

Plants by a fence, BW reversal

14 February, 2024

The Black and White Paper Reversal Process

By DaveTheWalker

I recently wrote about my adventures in RA4 colour reversal and the Pinsta pinhole camera. Once I had a workable method, I got to wondering about how difficult it might be to pe...

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