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27 December, 2025

Black Rock Diving Tower – Best Photo of 2025

By Sasha Tsyrlin

27 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, /

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Black Rock Diving Tower is an iconic landmark in Galway, Ireland. It is situated along the picturesque Salthill promenade overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This location has been photographed a million times but it was very great fun nonetheless to ...

Picture of a heifer wearing a bell and Swiss flags walking down a street as part of a parade.

27 December, 2025

Alpabfahrt – My 2025 Photo of the Year

By Theodore Crispino

27 December, 2025

/ Event Photography, photo of the year 2025, /

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In September, my family hopped the ferry from Ireland to France and then drove from Brittany to Switzerland. This was all done to visit friends of ours who live in a small village outside of Lucerne. The husband grew up in the village and he had i...

27 December, 2025

Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography

By Chad Hill

27 December, 2025

/ afgan box camera, Benson Dry Plate Co., Box Camera, /

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Over the last few years I have been fascinated by the amazing story of Afghan Box Cameras. If you are not familiar with them, Afghan Box Cameras are a category of “instant” camera that was popular in Afghanistan from the 50s until the ...

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27 June, 2024

My First use of Caffenol

By Roger

There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...

27 June, 2024

5 Frames with a Panasonic Lumix G100

By Richard de Bulat

I was looking to find a couple of older generation cameras for video and vlogging and settled on a GH4 that reputedly had some fungus in the viewfinder and was, therefore, an ab...

26 June, 2024

5 Frames with a Pentax MZ5 at the Beach

By nzcarl

Hi all my name is Carl Cozzone and i am a long time film user and photographer in Christchurch Nz. I seem to have been using fim camera’s all my life. Starting with a Pent...

26 June, 2024

A Classic Car meet with XP2 Super and a bit of help from a Leica 111a

By Phil Harrison

I had without realising it been spoiled by a lab that used Fuji Negastar B/W developer. This developer made all the films I sent, especially 400asa films, look great. Fine grain...

25 June, 2024

The “Troytsa” – a Religious Resistance Symbol in Bessarabia

By Julian Tanase

The Troytsa is a religious monument, showing Christ on a cross (or just a cross) in various models, depending on the artist’s skills or local custom. It is made many times in a ...

Good Friday lunch

25 June, 2024

5 Frames of Kodak Double XX 5222 on a Pentax Espio 24EW in Madrid

By Nick Orloff

I’m sure that I’m no different from most photographers when I travel – I always take far more gear than I end up using. In February had a 10 day work trip, with a couple of days...

24 June, 2024

The Kids Are Alright – A One Shot Story

By John Bennett

While walking back to our car after Indian food with friends, my wife and I passed a group of kids waiting in front of a skate venue that was hosting live music later in the eve...

24 June, 2024

Olympus E-1 Review – Down the Kodak CCD Rabbit Hole

By Ibraar Hussain

To go down the Rabbit Hole: To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one tha...

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Simon King on Westminster Bridge Matam – My Most Divisive Photograph of 2025
Thanks. I err towards sharing, although I do appreciate the capacity for loss of context once something escapes me. Bigger…
Simon King on Westminster Bridge Matam – My Most Divisive Photograph of 2025
Thank you very much! I think it's that balance of the final outcome vs my memory/potential in the moment that…
Chad Hill on Benson Dry Plate Co. Street Camera – Adventures with Instant Street Photography
Nice! It took me waaaayyyy to long to realize the problems I was having with DPP in this camera was…

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