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Black and white image of a couple walking down a sidewalk in Belfast. The right hand side of the frame is dominated by a sign saying "In You I Am Lost" with arrows pointing outward.

20 September, 2025

5 Frames of Ilford HP5 on the Streets of Belfast with a Minolta Maxxum 5

By Don Beaudette

20 September, 2025

/ Ilford Film, ilford HP5+, /

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28 March, 2025

Takayama in the Spring – A One Shot Story

By Floyd K. Takeuchi

As I write this the first days of March are quickly giving way to the promise of another magnificent Spring in Japan. Every photographer should have late March-early April marke...

28 March, 2025

AstrHori 28mm f/13 Macro 2:1 probe lens review

By Matthew Bigwood

I should start by saying that this AstrHori 28mm f/13 Macro 2:1 probe lens is probably the most unusual and specialist lens I’ve used in my 40-year photography career. The AstrH...

27 March, 2025

A night by the banyan with Nikon FM2 and Tollygrunge Noir

By Aswin Sai Narain S

It was late in the evening and I was starting to get restless, which is not unusual when I seem to have nothing to do. Then I figured out that I actually had something to do, wh...

The Vivitar keychain camera purchased from Walmart for $5.

27 March, 2025

5 Frames of Grandkids with a $5 Digital Camera from Walmart

By Scott Bassett

I’m cheap. Not as cheap as my youngest brother. He once tried to negotiate the price when on the phone ordering a take-out pizza. So when the popular Slickdeals website li...

26 March, 2025

Why a Longterm Relationship (with your camera) Makes You Feel Good

By Andrea Monti

There is no ‘forever’ in life (life included), and apart from more mundane matters, this is especially true of photography. In fact, the ‘infidelity rate’...

26 March, 2025

Some bad luck, good fortune, and a Leica M6 on a Sunny (16) day

By Matt Reverzani

My story begins with some good fortune and some bad luck. I purchased a Leica MP about a year ago; this was the good fortune! But recently it started to develop an unusual crack...

25 March, 2025

The Boat and the Heron – One Shot Story

By Callum Stanton

Maybe you’ve experienced it – a moment so still it seems like time has stopped. It could be from intense focus or a deep calm, but the moment has probably cemented itself ...

25 March, 2025

Malvern Hills Cloud Inversion with a Pentax Q7

By Hamish Gill

Over the Christmas break, we had a series of maybe 5 days of fog. It was that proper fog that just doesn’t seem to go away throughout the day and after a while starts to feel a ...

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