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1 November, 2025

Mount Cook and the Glaciers, 1893

By Logan Mortimer

1 November, 2025

/ Found Photos, /

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4 August, 2025

Crazy email nonsense – A quick note to contributors

By Hamish Gill

Apologies for the onslaught of email notifications today. We lost them all over the weekend, but when the dev guys attempted to fix this, they swung the needle too far the other...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By David Pauley

I want to start by thanking my fellow Brooklyner and 35mmc contributor Scott Ferguson for inviting me to join him in a new twist on a “Five Frames” presentation wher...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By Scott Ferguson

By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s...

3 August, 2025

Dreaming of the pool (One for Dave Powell)

By Geoff Chaplin

Reader discretion advised: references to extreme violence and an image of blood and gore – The featured image and the one below taken by my daughter on a smartphone. It wa...

3 August, 2025

Camera shutter testing device based on photodiode sensor and data-acquisition device

By Plane_wave

DIY sensor device for mechanical film camera shutter speed testing

2 August, 2025

Photographers in fiction

By Graham Spinks

I’ve just finished reading Tatjana Soli’s amazing novel The Lotus Eaters which tells the story of a female press photographer documenting the Vietnam war. As so often, I’m somet...

2 August, 2025

Widelux in the Wine Country

By Zheng Li

For a recent family vacation to Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country, I opted for a single camera and lens: the Widelux F7. This swing-lens panoramic camera, fam...

Photo of a couple leaving a Boston train station.

1 August, 2025

Be Careful with Generative AI! (One Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

On July 17, 2025, more than 1,500 anti-Trump “Make Good Trouble” protests (totaling perhaps 56,000 people) occurred across the U.S. Of these, nearly 100 groups gathered in Massa...

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