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30 October, 2025

Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)

By John Bennett

30 October, 2025

/ Camera History, Leica III, Nikkor-s 5cm 1.4, /

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After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images included in his landmark book, The Americans, I became mildly obsessed wit...

30 October, 2025

Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time

By Tom Warland

30 October, 2025

/ Darkroom Printing, /

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Ever since I first started photography, I’ve loved the darkroom. There have been times when I’ve drifted away from it – drawn in by the convenience of digital editing, whether from negatives or digital files – but I always find myself ...

30 October, 2025

5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.

By Danilo Leonardi

30 October, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, Street & Urban Photography, /

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It sometimes seems as though every sunset has already been photographed. Most often, the image is of a landscape in the “golden hour,” a favourite of postcard pictures. Epic skies are often part of the same cliché, reflecting a very conventional “...

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16 July, 2025

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3

By Scott Ferguson

In Part 1 of this series, I was exploring the different black & white stocks I had in my Lightroom Library, looking at things I had already shot to try to see the impact tha...

Brussels sewers, Sonnar f1.5

15 July, 2025

Underground 1 – The Sewers, with a Zeiss Sonnar 50mm f1.5

By Geoff Chaplin

The sewer museum in Brussels is entered through one of the former tax collection buildings at the Porte d’Anderlecht (left in the featured image) and exited through the building...

15 July, 2025

Leica M7 – A Trial Run, and My Decision Not to Keep It

By David Pauley

Quiet for quite some time, my Gear Acquisition Syndrome perked up last month, in the middle of my Year of the Rolleiflex, when I spied a “deal” at a large Manhattan ...

14 July, 2025

Confronting Nonsense – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

Somewhere near the heart of a no man’s land on the Tibetan Plateau, China. The place is called Lenghu, which means Cold Lake. It was cold. Even in June, under a blinding sun, I ...

14 July, 2025

Travel Photography Tips – With a Contax G2 Kodak Ektachrome E100VS Fujichrome Astia 100 Kodak TRI-X 400 and Adox Silvermax

By Ibraar Hussain

(Title Photo – only one of two photos of the G2 unfortunately with me in it! Yuk! 2009) This will be my last post on a Contax G2 I used to have (last but one), and which I...

13 July, 2025

Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI

By Andrea Monti

I was curious to see how an AI would handle a bad photo, so I uploaded this black-and-white shot taken in the area around Kyoto Station with my Nikon 35TI. The photo itself —the...

13 July, 2025

The Winter Heart of the Tatras

By Lubomir Drapal

The Tatras are the highest peaks of the Carpathians, and I wouldn’t hesitate to call them the national treasure of Slovakia—though a small part stretches gracefully into Poland....

Ten (Temperate) Botanical Frames in Colour - Feature Image

12 July, 2025

Ten (Temperate) Botanical Frames in Colour

By Simon Foale

Back in March 2024 I posted a piece about how great plants can look when photographed in black and white. Now this is despite the fact that I don’t embrace any particular ideolo...

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Paul Quellin on 5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.
Very pleasing and evocative photographs to look at Danilo. I wondered if they might be very much of the place…
Michael Jardine on Printing Live: What I Learned from Sharing the Darkroom in Real Time
This is all wonderful. I persuaded myself to revive my darkroom practice during Covid lockdown days when I was indoors…
Michael Jardine on Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)
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