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5 November, 2026

A Question of Scale – My Favourite Photo of 2026

By David Hume

5 November, 2026

/ photo of the year 2026, /

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24 March, 2020

ARS-Imago Monobath MB Developer: Initial Thoughts – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

It is rare for me to come across a monochrome film developing chemistry that I have not seen or heard of before, particularly in Japan. So when I noticed Swiss company ARS-Imago...

23 March, 2020

CoronaVirus isn’t going to stop me Blogging about Cameras and Photography

By Hamish Gill

I’ve spent this last week or so doing all sorts of alien things. We’ve had to make arrangements to temporarily close The Kiln, the coworking space I run, all of my staff at F8 (...

22 March, 2020

5 Frames With Eastman 5222 at EI1600 – By Hern Tan

By Hern Tan

You already know the drill: Bulk loaded film in canisters of wildly varying DX codes, lack of markings anywhere on the back plate indicating the film stock born out of pure hubr...

21 March, 2020

Conversion to Film: The Expected and Unexpected – by Anton Yakovlev

By Anton Yakovlev

A couple of words about myself first. I’m a hobbyist photographer with about a decade of experience. I come from the “digital generation”. My first camera was a Panasonic FZ-som...

20 March, 2020

Olympus 35RC – A Travelling Review – By Andy Larner

By Andy Larner

The invite dropped into my whatsapp in early February last year. Stag-do in Budapest! Long weekend! Now, I’m a habitual traveler, I love traveling and the majority of my photogr...

19 March, 2020

Enjoying and Learning in the Darkroom – by Michael Scott

By scottfotodotcom

As a film photographer, I’m in the fortunate position of being able to print my own work, both colour and black and white, in a darkroom. For some few years now I’ve been rentin...

18 March, 2020

A Heavy Visit – An Acount of Shooting an Emotive Subject – By Alex Kreisman

By Alexandre Kreisman

And the story goes like this …A foggy Saturday morning of November we arrived by car. Not too late, not too early. As soon as arrived we were to be separated into groups and put...

17 March, 2020

Photographing Buildings and Places in Hannover – by Christian Schroeder

By Christian Schroeder

Sometime around the year 2012, I started documenting the buildings and places in my home town, Hannover (Germany). This article deals with the way I came from there to here. I a...

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Michael Kaplan on A Question of Scale – My Favourite Photo of 202605/11/2026
David, I love this photograph. It speaks volumes to me as an artist and a filmmaker. It’s postmodern attitude is…
Walter Reumkens on Once upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s.05/11/2026
The last sentence should read, ‘I’ll take a camera with me again’. The translator isn’t playing ball, as usual. :-))
Walter Reumkens on Once upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s.05/11/2026
I also find some wonderful photos amongst your always interesting stories. I can see your point about the RTS II.…
Michael Kaplan on Once upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s.05/11/2026
These images are lovely. A beautiful study and I hope an inspirational reflection. I always enjoy reading about your process;…
Steve on Once upon a Spring – Black and White with a Contax RTS II, M42 lenses and Rollei Retro 80s.05/11/2026
Lovely writing, as always. I enjoy your photography and your approach to it, and an RTSii with 50mm f2 Yashica…

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