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23 December, 2025

High Surf, Thick Fog — My favorite photography of the year 2025

By John Eaton

23 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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Like others on 35mmc, I was immediately attracted by Hamish’s invitation to submit one’s favorite photo of the year – in my case because I believed that I had just shot it in early November! However, to date I haven’t been a contributor to 35mmc,...

23 December, 2025

Bad Luck at Heian Jingu Shrine – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

23 December, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, ilford HP5+, Nikon 35ti, /

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As it is customary in Japanese Shinto shrines, also the Heian Jingu in Kyoto has an area where bad luck is left hanging in the open. 御御籤 —o-mikuji—are small strips of paper that people can choose at random to find out their fortune. As every to...

The Carousel Bar

23 December, 2025

The Carousel Bar at Hotel Monteleone – My 2025 picture of the year

By Jonathan Murray

23 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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Photography has been part of my life for half a century. At thirteen, living on Royal Air Force Base Akrotiri in Cyprus, I joined the base photography club and found myself under the guidance of an RAF press photographer. He taught me the basics —...

pic of Mamiya C220, plus a Mamiya C33 and spare lens

23 December, 2025

5 Frames With a Mamiya C220

By Victor Dively

23 December, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Mamiya C220, /

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This past year I decided to focus on black and white film photography and to tackle landscape photography. For me, that has been a hard challenge. My occasional attempts at landscape photography while out hiking and looking for wildlife have alway...

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30 May, 2023

5 Frames around Dublin with a Nikon F80 and Kodak Ektar 100

By Conor O'Brien

I bought my Nikon F80 from a seller in Spain nearly two years ago. I had wanted to buy an F100, but didn’t want to pay the prices being asked for. While the F100 is undoubtedly ...

29 May, 2023

NEWS: Celebrating Analogue Wonderland’s 5th Birthday, New WonderPan 400 Makes Pushing Film Fun For All

By Molly Kate

Out of the frying pan and into the hands of film photographers flies WonderPan 400, a 35mm black and white treat. The culinary creation concocted by fictional character Chef Amb...

29 May, 2023

Fuji Zoomdate 1300 – Is that a telephoto in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

By Gaston

Hi, fellow photography (and camera) nerds! Gaston W. here, reminiscing about a time when 'zoom' meant something on a camera, not an awkward work meeting. Today I’ll be recountin...

28 May, 2023

Drinking areas in Japan IV: Yurakucho with a Leica M3, Zeiss Sonnar and Portra 400…

By Geoff Chaplin

Yurakucho is an area and station name, close to Tokyo station, between the expensive Ginza shopping area, the Imperial Palace, and the Marunouchi office, financial and shopping ...

27 May, 2023

NEWS: FOMA Releases Ortho 400 Medium Format Film

By Molly Kate

FOMA BOHEMIA has launched a unique black-and-white orthochromatic film in medium format. FOMA Ortho 400 is a 120 film featuring a wide exposure latitude and increased sensitivit...

27 May, 2023

5 Frames of a Classic Cobra with a Leicaflex and Kodak Ultramax

By Dan Smouse

I have always liked "nice" things. I would rather have less quantity but with a greater quality. My favorite fly rods are made by Orvis. My camera of choice has always been Niko...

26 May, 2023

Of Camera Sensors and Mega-Pixels – A Screen Play

By Marco Andrés

The following is in the style/format of a screenplay. Ok, let's face it. Not the sort of thing that would be picked up by Netflix. But… there are precedents. Consider the oyster...

26 May, 2023

That Time I Shot with Ilford Multigrade RC as film.

By Tony Warren

Many moons ago I was keen to try my hand with large format, as large as I could manage, 10 x 8 seeming a good choice. You can tell how long ago from my pinhole shot of the Humbe...

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