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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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12 November, 2019

Fuji C200 Review – A short note on my Enduring Love for this film – By Phil Stefans

By PhilStefans

OK yes it’s cheap. Fuji C200 is one of the cheapest 35mm colour films on the market. But if Portra 400 was the same price as C200, I’d still pick the Fuji most of the time. I’m ...

11 November, 2019

Pentax MX – My Nuts and Bolts Review

By Hamish Gill

I recently kicked off a bit of a series of posts talking about my experiences with my Pentax MX. In that first post, I talked a bit about how I didn’t want to just review the ca...

10 November, 2019

Olympus XA – Digital Palate Cleansing – By Ed Lara

By Photoedontheweb

As much as I love the immediacy of digital photography, I occasionally get overwhelmed and overloaded by the sheer volume of images I take with my digital cameras or my iPhone. ...

9 November, 2019

5 Frames with the Bronica ETRsi + 500mm f/8 EII – By Wyatt Ryan

By Wyatt Ryan

For a steal on eBay, I acquired a Bronica ETRsi and 5 different lenses, inside a Pelican case, for just under $400. The 500mm f/8 EII lens takes up a quarter of the space in the...

8 November, 2019

Rolleiflex SL35 mini-review- A Gorgeous Under-The-Radar SLR – By Recky Reck.

By Recky

In early 2019, my interest in analogue photography was suddenly rekindled after a hiatus of a mere 35 years – as a teenager I had discovered my grandfather’s 6×6 fold...

7 November, 2019

Why Are You Carrying The Camera? – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

“Why are you carrying the camera,” asked my colleague the curmudgeon. We were having lunch around the corner from the school. He in fact is much nicer than he pretends to be, an...

7 November, 2019

5 frames with 5 cameras and 5 films in one graveyard – by Rock

By Rock

The title is a reflection that I have (too) many cameras and that there remains a decent suite of emulsion available on the market. Now before you have visions of me lugging fiv...

6 November, 2019

5 frames with a Franka Solida IIE – by Michael Scott

By scottfotodotcom

According to Wikipedia Franka Kamerawerk produced cameras between 1909 and 1967 in Bayreuth, Germany. At its height the factory produced about 650,000 units in 1958. So I was su...

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