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16 December, 2025

Country Church – My photo of the year 2025

By Leon Winnert

16 December, 2025

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I have always found myself being drawn to churches. Particularly small country churches. I don’t really seek them out. Mostly I just happen across them. Nevertheless, I was out and about with a camera in the late afternoon of a Sunday in late A...

16 December, 2025

Three-Card Monte in Rome – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

16 December, 2025

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Every now and then, Three-Card Monte scammers appear in unexpected places such as the narrow cobblestone streets between the Parliament and the Pantheon, in the centre of Rome. This was a textbook execution. The game was fast-paced. Hooks pretende...

16 December, 2025

Exploring an Empty Art Gallery – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Gordon Ownby

16 December, 2025

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In 2025, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time with my photography, not only taking the most keepers in nearly 10 years but also adding some vintage Nikon kit to the stable. (Nikon was my aspirational brand when I was photo editor o...

16 December, 2025

Hedeco Spot One Review – New Compact Spot Meter Launched on Kickstarter

By Hamish Gill

16 December, 2025

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Hedeco have just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new Hedeco Spot One spot meter. This is a brand new, compact sized, well featured spot meter that’s been designed to make spot metering a more viable option for those who don’t want to car...

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30 January, 2025

Lomography Redscale XR at Night – How to create a gloomy cinematic look

By fleetwoodler

While Berlin in summer is undeniably one of the most exciting European cities for photography, winter offers a stark contrast and poses significant challenges for many local (st...

Brussels

30 January, 2025

TLR Challenge: 4 – Brussels

By Geoff Chaplin

We travelled to Europe in late Autumn 2024 spending most of the time in Brussels. This mixed collection of photographs was taken on the Rolleiflex GX using Fomapan 100 B&W f...

29 January, 2025

One Shot Story – The Showdown

By Kohtli

The local train to Keelung was a slow, 40-minute crawl. I hadn’t stepped out of Taipei for about 3 months now seeing as there is so much going on in the capital city. I’d heard ...

Sheet of negatives

29 January, 2025

AGO Film Processor – Renewing old skills and Developing Film for the first time in 35 years

By Art Meripol

Like many of my generation (boomers) I got my start in photography in High School shooting for the yearbook, though my interest in photography started much earlier. My first tim...

28 January, 2025

NEWS: LUMO A New Light Meter from Reveni Labs

By Hamish Gill

Matt Bechberger of Reveni Labs appears to have outdone himself with another new lightmeter – this time a full featured, compact, hand held reflective, incident colour and ...

28 January, 2025

Voigtlander Color-Skopar 21mm f/4 VM P – Made For Film, Can Work For Digital.

By Eric

Ok, that title does not exactly roll off of the tongue. This post will likely not resonate with lens purists seeking M mount perfection. Understandable. But I had found myself i...

27 January, 2025

Color is the Subject – Some Success with Color Transparencies

By RichardH

Over the past 50 years I have had periods where I was immersed in photography. First it was B&W darkroom printing, then a long period of color work, a brief time with digita...

27 January, 2025

Nikon L35AF vs Konica A4 vs Pentax PC35 AF-M vs Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

By Stelios Themelakis

My foray into film photography began in an unusual way during the Covid lockdown. While many start small, I dove straight into the deep end with a medium format Bronica SQ-B. To...

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Alastair Bell on Fuji GFX100 – Just a camera, but it’s the right camera for me – By Adam Hoskins
Beautiful images there. I recently bought a GFX100s II and I have to say I know exactly what you mean…
Gordon Ownby on Exploring an Empty Art Gallery – My Photo of the Year 2025
Marco - Thank you for providing such an excellent distillation of all the controversy surrounding the new building. Very helpful…
Paul on Country Church – My photo of the year 2025
Nice image and good write up except that it’s an altar not alter.

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