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30 June, 2025

Wanderer Above the Peaks – A One-Shot Story

By Nathan Sherwood

30 June, 2025

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8 December, 2024

Brighton montage – a one shot story

By Mark Ellerby

February 2014 at a conference in Brighton. I took my recently acquired Rollei B35 along with some Kodak Gold. In the less interesting intervals of the conference I sneaked out t...

8 December, 2024

Returning to the Hakone Turnpike

By Philip

It was a balmy midsummer’s morning, which in coastal Japanese terms equates to an omnipresent buzz of cicadas and the thick heavy grasp of coastal humidity that one learns...

7 December, 2024

Minolta 16MG & Adox CMS 20 II – Zones 5 through 9

By Tony Warren

Using high contrast film on architectural subjects with 16mm.

7 December, 2024

Get out and Photograph a Tree!

By CHRISTOF RAMPITSCH

Get out and photograph a tree because “the world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”. There’s a tree growing not far from where I live that I mus...

6 December, 2024

5 Frames in Berlin with Leica M3 & Ilford HP5

By Bradley Newman

About a year ago, as my wife and I began planning our recent trip to Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam, my thoughts immediately turned to photography. I can’t be the first member of ...

6 December, 2024

Rollei 35T – A compact hiking companion

By Mark Ellerby

I had been desiring a Rollei 35 for a while, after previously owning a B35 which produced some nice pictures for me but had a tendency to chew the film between sprocket holes an...

A black and white photograph of two women in Halloween costumes posing for the camera. First one's wearing a black top hat and face paint depicting scars around her mouth, the other is wearing a Mad Hatter costume of sorts.

5 December, 2024

Mystery Films – Found, Developed and Scanned

By mkukka

While going through my boxes of photography gear I came by not one, but two rolls of undeveloped T-Max 400. I had no idea what those rolls contained, or when they had been shot....

5 December, 2024

A Camera Trio in Rio

By Jeffery Luhn

Rio de Janeiro means ‘River of January’ in Portuguese. This name was chosen by the explorers who first arrived in their tiny wind-blown ships on January 1, 1502. Can you imagine...

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Got two rolls of the cloest I could get to IR film on a budget, Rollei retro 80s, with a…
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