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5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

5 December, 2025

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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

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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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3 December, 2025

5 Frames with the Pentax K SMC 85mm f/2.2 Soft Focus Lens

By mark stein

What started as an experiment out of curiosity has apparently become serious, or at least a lot more expensive: I’ve bought a “proper” Soft Focus lens, and I h...

2 December, 2025

5 Frames with a FED-3 Rangefinder with Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm

By Walter Reumkens

In mid-2025, I added a Soviet 35mm rangefinder camera, an FED-3 with an Industar 61 L/D 2.8/55mm lens, to my collection. The camera and lens had been freshly CLA’d and wer...

2 December, 2025

Holga Wide, Fisheye and Telephoto Slide-On – A Comparison of Auxiliary Lenses

By Neal Wellons

I know there are lots of Holga shooters out there as I follow many of you or see your posts in Holga Groups. These cameras opened a new chapter in photography for me, both as a...

1 December, 2025

Relentless – A One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

When in Tokyo, I don’t go to Shibuya unless I have a specific errand to run. Least of the usual ‘things are not what they used to be’ lament, the place never s...

1 December, 2025

LC-A 120 Review – A Lomo on steroids

By Bob Janes

This is a review of the LOMO LC-A 120. I received a loan copy of the camera from Lomography (for which I thank them). This, however, is an independent review to which they have ...

30 November, 2025

A Guitarist – My photo of the year 2025

By Alexandre Kreisman

Okay, okay, I know the year isn’t quite perfect, but we’re close! And let’s be honest, after the last couple of years I’ve had, I think we deserve to cel...

Leica iiig and Summitar

30 November, 2025

5 Frames with a Leica iiig, Summitar and FP4+ at 400asa

By Geoff Chaplin

I have written about the Leica iiig in the context of other Leicas here. Briefly summarising these are the key differences compared to the M3 for me: Advantages Smaller and ligh...

29 November, 2025

A Journey Through 26 Cameras and Expired Film

By Ricardo Andrade

I started shooting analog in 2011, using expired film from the abandoned darkroom at the Microscopy Facility where I work, at the University of the Basque Country. You can read ...

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Neil Lloyd on Reflecting on a few of my failures
Hi Alexandre Now this brings back memories, I use to do this all the time, constantly analyzing where I'd gone…
Michael Flory on Reflecting on a few of my failures
A brave exercise! Lee Friedlander might disagree, but I think there's more than a little of his style in the…
Andrew Gurthet on Reflecting on a few of my failures
I actually really like your first photo! I’m doing a whole series on “Cyborgs,” otherwise known as humans on phones.…

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