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28 December, 2025

Capo Testa, Sardinia – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Patrick Medd

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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2025 has been a mixed bag for me, photographically. Looking at my Lightroom catalogue I can see that I have roughly half the number of images for the year compared to 2024 and that number includes scans of most of the negatives I have shot in the ...

oak trees in a wood

28 December, 2025

A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025

By Richard Becker

28 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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13th May 2025, early afternoon. The oak trees had only just fully come into leaf and it was a beautiful day, hot with clear blue skies and a gentle breeze. But none of the photographs I was taking reflected this in any way, the intense green of th...

28 December, 2025

The Haunting of Sheda Jatt of Village Gehal Bala – My favourite Photograph of 2025

By Ibraar Hussain

28 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Portrait Photography, /

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I’ve been away for a while, 3 weeks plus a few days on either side, so probably a month away from the website, apologies to my friends here as I’ve a lot of catching up to do. It was 3 weeks of shooting, having two camera bodies; an Ol...

28 December, 2025

A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography

By Thomas Eland

28 December, 2025

/ Camera Theory, Finding Film Photography, /

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During my pre digital life I was mostly a Pentax fan, using their SL, SP, ES, ME, MX, LX, 67 and 645…all long gone. The last three I bought whilst I was in Hong Kong for a few years and I even carried the 67 and Benbo mk.1 tripod up Mount Ki...

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24 January, 2023

5 Frames Simply Taken with a Konica TC-X and Sigma Mini-Wide II 28mm lens (No Batteries Required) – By Iain Paterson

By Iain Paterson

Going back to basics in photography - using just a light-tight box, a single lens, and a mechanical shutter and winder – is often framed as a return to simplicity, even if it im...

23 January, 2023

NEWS: Adolescent Eye Zine Released by Bristol Artist Matthew Broadhead on Welford Press

By Molly Kate

Matthew Broadhead, an artist, photographer, and teacher from Bristol, has published a new zine prompted by re-discovering lab scans on Sainsburys CDs from his teenage years. Ado...

23 January, 2023

Digital Cameras & the Future of Home Scanning – By Arild Edvard Båsmo

By ArilBas

What is the future of scanning at home going to look like? We will explore the future of home scanning thoroughly by looking at the history of film scanning, discussing how scan...

22 January, 2023

NEWS: Atlanta Film Co. Adds Classic Double-X Cinema Film to Lineup

By Molly Kate

Atlanta Film Co. is adding another film to its cine line-up, this time a black-and-white option called XX. XX, also known as "Double X", is a medium-speed film with fine grain, ...

22 January, 2023

The Whole Roll – Nikon FE2 and Rollei S400 – By Felix I Flores Rodriguez

By Felix Flores Rodriguez

The art of black and white photography is as old as the art itself. Color photography sometimes masks the true meaning of an image yet, on certain occasions, will distract or ev...

21 January, 2023

NEWS: Lomography Introduces New Discounted LomoChrome Purple 2021 Pétillant Edition

By Molly Kate

If you are looking for an experimental film to get stuck into in 2023, Lomography has released an edition of LomoChrome Purple called Pétillant. The film is discounted due to th...

21 January, 2023

5 Frames with Hasselblad 501c/Zeiss 80mm f/2.8 and Cinestill 400D – By Eric L. Woods

By Eric

This will be a short one. I went to Cinestill's website recently and the results were predictable. I glazed over and evidently ordered a mess of film. Included in this haul were...

20 January, 2023

NEWS: Daily Mail Steals Photographer’s Images Without Permission, Pay, or Apology

By Molly Kate

In a move breaking copyright law in the UK, The Daily Mail used Alexandra Cameron’s image of Emily Clarkson without permission online and in print alongside a headline that repu...

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Erik Brammer on A Picture in Spring – My Favourite Photo From 2025
Hey Richard, certainly your photograph speaks to me very much. Well done!
Thomas Eland on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Thanks for your extensive and informative reply. Plus of course happy New year to all members
Marco Andrés on A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography
Quite the journey. Excellent introduction to a panoply of « odd » cameras, which are definitely worth exploring. The Adox…

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