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5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

5 December, 2025

/ Learning Journeys, /

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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...

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19 November, 2019

Video: Chatting to Ashley Carr in Stourport (part 2)

By Hamish Gill

A couple of months ago I went to Stourport and met up with Ashley Carr. This is part 2 of the video I made, if you’d like to see the first part, you can find it here. If you’ve ...

18 November, 2019

5 Frames with the Pentax Spotmatic F and Kodak Gold 200 – By Jérémie Schuler

By jeremieschuler

I’m a French Sales Engineer living in Berlin, also working part time as a photographer and videographer. Over the years, I just managed to get rid of the French accent, but not ...

17 November, 2019

(First) 5 Frames With Kodak Tri-x 400 – By Jake Yorath

By Jake Yorath

I’ve always loved photography, but going semi-professional – shooting motor racing – strangled that, and I stopped photographing anything for a very long time. A decade or so la...

16 November, 2019

5 Frames with the Nikon L35AF and Kodak Portra 800 in the german woods – By Martin Holman

By marto_35mm

After using the Olympus XA3 for street photography, I slowly felt the need for a point & shoot with a faster lens and more precise focus. Don’t get me wrong, zone focusing w...

15 November, 2019

Fuji Natura 1600 & Shooting Star Trails and at Night – By Bill Thoo

By Bill Thoo

I have the privilege of travelling for work to the Central West of New South Wales twice a year. After hours are typically my own, and I usually take those opportunities for pho...

14 November, 2019

Canon 28mm f/2.8 LTM – A Short Review – By Atanas Grozdev

By Photo-g-rap-her

I started to shoot on film in a cold winter of 2014. I used to shoot mainly with compact film cameras with color negative film, were I tried to test as many as possible of them....

13 November, 2019

Studying Eisenstaedt – By Frank Wu

By frankhwu

Since taking up photography, I have tried to see as much of the art as practicable. Most recently, I visited Hillwood in Washington, D.C., the primary estate of the late Marjori...

13 November, 2019

Balda Baldix – A mini-review of 1950’s Folder – By Dave Donnelly

By Dave Donnelly

I forget how I acquired this Balda Baldix camera but I love the compact nature of it, and how it "pops" out at the touch of button on top which never fails to amuse me. This is ...

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