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16 December, 2025

Country Church – My photo of the year 2025

By Leon Winnert

16 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Still Life Photography, /

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I have always found myself being drawn to churches. Particularly small country churches. I don’t really seek them out. Mostly I just happen across them. Nevertheless, I was out and about with a camera in the late afternoon of a Sunday in late A...

16 December, 2025

Three-Card Monte in Rome – One Shot Story

By Andrea Monti

16 December, 2025

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Every now and then, Three-Card Monte scammers appear in unexpected places such as the narrow cobblestone streets between the Parliament and the Pantheon, in the centre of Rome. This was a textbook execution. The game was fast-paced. Hooks pretende...

16 December, 2025

Exploring an Empty Art Gallery – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Gordon Ownby

16 December, 2025

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In 2025, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time with my photography, not only taking the most keepers in nearly 10 years but also adding some vintage Nikon kit to the stable. (Nikon was my aspirational brand when I was photo editor o...

16 December, 2025

Hedeco Spot One Review – New Compact Spot Meter Launched on Kickstarter

By Hamish Gill

16 December, 2025

/ Hedeco Spot One, Light Meter, Spot meter, /

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Hedeco have just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new Hedeco Spot One spot meter. This is a brand new, compact sized, well featured spot meter that’s been designed to make spot metering a more viable option for those who don’t want to car...

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17 April, 2018

5 frames with a Nikon FM3A and Nikkor 28-70mm 2.8 D – by John Whitmore

By John Whitmore

Dang, this lens is heavy. It seems to pull on the body of the FM3a as if it’s trying to escape using gravity as a weapon and 900g as ammunition. But little does it know that al...

15 April, 2018

Beers & Cameras Birmingham – 24/03/18 – and, how we didn’t let the racists ruin our day…

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago I met up with around 20 other photographers in the centre of Birmingham for a bit of a Beers & Cameras photowalk. We met some angry football fans, angry an...

15 April, 2018

The Sunbeams Analogue photography news: Sporty shots and sagging mattresses

By The Sunbeams

Hey readers, it’s us again, back from overindulging on Easter eggs to you catch up on events at Sunny 16 Towers. Ironically, although we see much from our lofty vantage po...

14 April, 2018

Konica AA-35 Reporter Review – By John Furlong

By John Furlong

I’ve always been attracted to the half-frame format and have examples of the Russian variants and the Canon and Olympus models. I was particularly interested in the Konica AA-35...

14 April, 2018

First roll with a Leica II – by KJ Vogelius

By KJ Vogelius

I suddenly find myself a day to day nomad. Working in three different offices I still feel a little like a tourist in the neighbourhoods I now spend most days. The past few mont...

12 April, 2018

5 frames with Pentax SuperA – By Aivaras

By Aivaras

Recent news about decline of choices in consumer film market – Agfa Vista discontinuation, triggered me to revisit my own favorite stock of consumer grade film – Fujifilm Superi...

11 April, 2018

5 Frames with a Contax G1 – by Carlos Albisu

By carlos

There are families and families. Some can be kind of normal, others can be kind of ¨interesting¨. This is the case with my wife's family. For sure they are not extraordinary, bu...

10 April, 2018

5 Frames with the Lomography Minitar Art Lens – by Barnaby Nutt

By Barnaby Nutt

Saturday 24th of March saw the 'Beers and Cameras' photowalk around Birmingham, brought about by our hosts Richard, Robert James, Martin 'Photowalk.Me' Smith and a certain Hamis...

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Alastair Bell on Fuji GFX100 – Just a camera, but it’s the right camera for me – By Adam Hoskins
Beautiful images there. I recently bought a GFX100s II and I have to say I know exactly what you mean…
Gordon Ownby on Exploring an Empty Art Gallery – My Photo of the Year 2025
Marco - Thank you for providing such an excellent distillation of all the controversy surrounding the new building. Very helpful…
Paul on Country Church – My photo of the year 2025
Nice image and good write up except that it’s an altar not alter.

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