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Paper in water

16 July, 2025

Potty Pareidolia – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

16 July, 2025

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Doesn’t every photographer hope to find an undiscovered niche? Something still un-tapped? I may have just: In what I dub “Potty Pareidolia”! Specifically, clean toilet paper that forms a likeness of something else when tossed in the bowl. Sort of ...

16 July, 2025

Harman Phoenix II – My first roll and some brief thoughts on the development of this new film

By Hamish Gill

16 July, 2025

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Harman have just announced the release of their second colour film, Phoenix II. As per the last few releases out of the factories in Mobberly, I have been lucky enough to have received a few rolls to shoot and write about in the run up to the offi...

16 July, 2025

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3

By Scott Ferguson

16 July, 2025

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In Part 1 of this series, I was exploring the different black & white stocks I had in my Lightroom Library, looking at things I had already shot to try to see the impact that a film stock has on the quality of the photos. In Part 2 I was clea...

Latest Posts

2 February, 2025

10 Frames with CatLABS X Film 80 II

By Eric

As many posts start, “so I was in my local camera shop…” The store manager Chris mentioned that they had a film I may not have tried. CatLABS X Film 80 II. And...

1 February, 2025

Imago Absentia – A Portrait of the Absent

By Jeffery Luhn

To photographers, the word portraiture conjures up an image of a human subject posing for a photograph. But what if the person is no longer with us and cannot be photographed? W...

dog on bus

31 January, 2025

Canon 35mm f/1.5 – One project, one lens – a little documentary with a legendary lens

By mark stein

I love using just one lens. No philosophy, it just resonates with me to get to know its intricacies and always know what to do to get what I want. I’m not quite there yet ...

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 ...

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