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5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

5 December, 2025

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I’ve seen some very nice posts on this site over the last couple of weeks, Scott Ferguson, Ibraar Hussain and myself even got to start critique about some posts, which I find marvellous. It is, for me, the way to grow, to learn, and try new ...

5 December, 2025

The long way back home – my photo of the year 2025

By Julian Tanase

5 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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In September 2025 I was traveling for business in the SE of Romania. Given the good weather, I decided to travel by car, although distances are not a joke in these parts. As a secondary goal, I wanted to check out the famous landscape of Dobrudja,...

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5 December, 2025

A Summer of Street Portraits on Film

By David Smith

5 December, 2025

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O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! — Robert Burns Earlier this year, I was feeling creatively stagnant. I’d taken hundreds of photos of my wife, son, and friends. As beautiful as they are, I needed a change of subj...

Latest Posts

1 March, 2020

Deciding on My Favourite 5 Frames From 2019 (And Maybe A couple of Sneaky Extras) – By Gavin Bain

By GavinBain

I dedicated the month of December 2019 to curating a zine I planned to self publish simply titled "two thousand nineteen". My goal for this zine was to compile my absolute favou...

29 February, 2020

Praktica L Rievew – A Yearning for this old Line of SLRS – By Rock

By Rock

As a 15 year old I got my first ever SLR for a Christmas present. It was a Soviet made Zenit and served me well for a while. When I opted for 'A' Level Photography at school, I ...

28 February, 2020

Pentax KX review: My first. My favorite? – by Aaron Gold

By Aaron Gold

It’s been nearly three decades since I signed up for my first college photography class, and I am only now beginning to realize how lucky I was to start out with a Pentax KX. Mo...

27 February, 2020

Some Thoughts and Experiences in Favor of the Price Hikes on Film – Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

Every time a manufacturer like Kodak or Fujifilm announces a price rise on one or more film stocks, there is a lot of howling online, whether in the comment sections of articles...

26 February, 2020

NEWS: Analogue Forums Launched on DPReview (and I’m a moderator there)

By Hamish Gill

Those that know me well will know that I am a big fan and daily reader of DPReview. As such, it's really exciting for me to be able to announce that they have just launched a ne...

26 February, 2020

Rollei 135 Film – Experiments with Three Stocks – by Daniel Sigg

By Daniel Sigg

Rolleiflex is a brand that is associated with photography cameras, in particular medium frame film cameras. Rolleiflex has a fairly complicated corporate history (see wikipedia)...

25 February, 2020

That time I shot a Noritar 80mm f/2 medium format lens on a Pentax 35mm film camera – By Aivaras

By Aivaras

For a long time, I was looking into 6x6 medium format cameras with a really fast standard focal length lens (around 80mm). Such lenses are rare, as far as I know there are two o...

24 February, 2020

NEWS: #FP4Party – A party to celebrate ILFORD FP4 PLUS film – By Sandeep

By Ssumal71

So you have got this far hoping to find out the venue, date and time. You want to know is it a DJ or live band playing? Whats the dress code you ask? Can you get on the guest...

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