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A figure stands alone in an alley between massive buildings on either side.

20 December, 2025

Solitude in Shenzhen – My favorite photo of 2025

By Kohtli

20 December, 2025

/ photo of the year 2025, Street & Urban Photography, /

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I’ve tried using Lomo Metropolis before, but that was on full frame with a very cheap point and shoot. This time around I was making an effort to shoot in on 120 with an old Olympus Six I recently had CLA’d. I went off to China for the first time ...

20 December, 2025

Phoenix (I) Rising, or, How I Tame the Beast

By Michael Murray

20 December, 2025

/ Harman Film, Harman Phoenix 200, /

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Phoenix (1) Why Bother? When it was released a few years ago, Harman Phoenix was a welcome new kid on the block. Like most, I was eager to try it out. To begin with, I want to say that, while I understand many photographers have their go-to method...

20 December, 2025

Graveyard – My favourite photo of 2025

By Max Tiraquon

20 December, 2025

/ Landscape Photography, /

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2025 was not a productive year photographically wise for me. A combination of a very minor but niggly medical issue combined with the rarest of things a great British summer and finally deciding to pick up a PlayStation 5 meant I didn’t go out muc...

View of the Monte Fort in Verona, Italy

20 December, 2025

By Andrea Darra

20 December, 2025

/ foma, Foma Film, Fomapan 100, Nikon F2, travel photography, /

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I’ve been taking photos for many years. Over the years, I’ve realized that I enjoy photographing places, whether deserted or crowded—because in them, like in people, there’s a soul that speaks to their history. One of my favorite...

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27 May, 2025

A Photo That Came From Nothing – One Shot Story

By Eagle Omomuro

Once I grew up, I found it much harder to answer simple questions that had once been effortless as a child, questions like “what’s your favorite band” or “who’s your best friend...

27 May, 2025

Parakeets Playing it Cool in the Cold

By Danilo Leonardi

This post is a short, personal record of London’s wild parakeets, seen from a fourth-floor window in West London, from winter into spring. It can be easy to miss what is just ou...

26 May, 2025

Olympus Trip 35 and 35ED – Budget Compacts – a Review & Comparison

By Bob Janes

In the mid 1970s Olympus had a nice range of compact cameras, going from the 1/2 frame Pen to the Sophisticated 35RD. Two of these cameras are the subject of this comparison rev...

25 May, 2025

Photographing the Acropolis with an Antique Roll of Film

By David Pauley

While as a rule I am open to experimentation in photography, I have not dealt much with expired films, despite my admiration for the results many photographers are able to coax ...

24 May, 2025

The Aesthetic Qualities of BW Film Images – by Marco Dughera

By Marco Dughera

Digital has set new standards of technical image quality difficult or impossible to achieve in the film era. But technical quality and aesthetic quality do not necessarily go ha...

23 May, 2025

Zeh Zeca-Flex Camera Review

By Dan Cuny

This camera combines the compactness of a folding camera with the quality and handling of a twin-lens reflex camera. The Zeh Zeca-Flex is just the camera mentioned above, and I&...

The Socol 2 Automat camera on the table of a street cafe

22 May, 2025

5 Frames with the Sokol-2 Automat – Closing the Soviet Gestalt

By Alex Gridenko

My interest in photography began over 20 years ago with the purchase of my first camera, a digital point-and-shoot Canon G5. However, to be precise, there was another camera I g...

22 May, 2025

Panasonic Lumix GX7 – Travelling in The Rural Punjab

By Ibraar Hussain

The Year is 2015 and I find myself back in The Punjab region of Pakistan. A place which I’ve visited again and again and which I always look forward to, one of the many re...

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