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6 December, 2025

VEIL – a campaign to publish my book

By Lubomir Drapal

6 December, 2025

/ Photo Book, /

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When I started shooting film ten years ago, it wasn’t about returning to the past. It wasn’t nostalgia. It was more of an attempt to approach photography differently — without the need to control everything. Megapixels, colors, sharpness, endless ...

6 December, 2025

Vintage cars, bikes and a bus ride

By John Andrews

6 December, 2025

/ Nikon D7000, /

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Like a lot us from the older generation, meaning the geriatric brigade, brought up on milk, delivered to your door, red telephone boxes for phone calls and double Decker buses, sadly all that has mostly gone. Or has it? In the heart of St Helens T...

Osaka

6 December, 2025

Osaka with a Leica iiig and Summitar

By Geoff Chaplin

6 December, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford FP4+, Leica 50mm summitar, Leica IIIg, /

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After a three hour drive and a two hour flight I needed a drink – I say ‘a’ euphemistically: beer, nihonshu (“sake”), red wine and whisky hit the spot but set the tone for the following three nights. It was my wife’s birthday trip to see her nephe...

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27 November, 2025

5 Frames, No Kings

By Scott Ferguson

I was excited to bring my M3 to the recent No Kings protest in Manhattan in October. I don’t have a huge amount of experience shooting ‘documentary’ style to ...

26 November, 2025

One By Four – A One Shot Story Told by Four Photographers – Part 3

By Dean Lawrence

After Scott Ferguson and David Hume’s posts a short while back and the comments within them, I was surprised to be asked to contribute. Surprised and terrified to be hones...

26 November, 2025

No Kings – My photo of the year (so far) 2025

By Art Meripol

This photo was also part of a recent post I shared here on 35mmc. Apologies for sharing it twice in quick succession, but this image also fits the idea of my favorite photo of t...

26 November, 2025

One By Four: a One Shot Story told by Four Photographers – Part 4

By David Pauley

Winter Sunlight, NYC, 2025. Rolleiflex 2.8F, Zeiss Planar f2.8, light yellow filter. Tri-X 400. This post is the final installment of a four-way conversation between Scott Fergu...

Queen Califa

25 November, 2025

5 Frames of Queen Califa with a Holga

By Fred Nelson

About 4 years ago I was looking for a medium format film camera. I went through all the choices and could not decide. Then I came across Anna Starr (anna.s.snapshots on Instag...

25 November, 2025

Do You Remember That Drunk Dance Thirteen Years Ago?

By Eagle Omomuro

I’ve always felt a kind of disgust toward the trend of full automation and burst shooting. I call it spray and pray. The camera sets the exposure, detects a smile, locks on an e...

A photography of a wasp on a leaf in October 2025

24 November, 2025

The October Wasp – A One Shot Story

By Ed

I came across the wasp while walking to town on an unremarkable Sunday afternoon. This modest photo was taken with an ailing Pentax Auto 110 film camera, using a generic colour ...

23 November, 2025

Minotars for mirrorless – Converting Minox 35 lenses for use on digital bodies

By Bob Janes

I’m a big fan of the Color-Minotar lens that graces the tiny body of the Minox 35 cameras. About the only thing that annoys me about the lens itself is the misspelling of ...

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