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10 July, 2025

5 (plus one or three) Frames of Raglan Castle – A Return to Velvia with the Best Camera Ever Made.

By Richard Becker

10 July, 2025

/ Fuji Velvia 50, Fujifilm film, /

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An Icelandic Horse doing a super-smooth "Tolt" as its rider holds a stein of beer without spilling a drop.

12 June, 2025

A Horse of Five Gaits – One-Shot Story

By Dave Powell

Yes, in the above still from a short Fuji F31fd video, the rider is carrying a full stein of fine Icelandic beer! And she’s on a native Icelandic Horse. Reputedly, the pur...

12 June, 2025

A Summer of Cricket – Following a Junior Cricket Club Season

By Ibraar Hussain

The sound of leather on wood, tall poplar trees with cawing rooks nesting in the high branches, warm gentle summer breeze blows across the fields and gently caressing the grasse...

11 June, 2025

Remnants of the gone jolly days – A one shot story

By Julian Tanase

There is something intriguing about this photograph here, something that moves me in a way few of my photographs did. When I saw the harlequin head lying on a makeshift pile of ...

11 June, 2025

My five rules for taking street portraits

By David Smith

“Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.” — Michael Jordan Asking someone on the street for their portrait is a bit like asking someone on a dat...

10 June, 2025

Fragments of Life – A One Shot Story

By Ibraar Hussain

For there upon a bed of soft wool lay the most splendid jewel, a jewel such as Dyson had never dreamed of, and within it shone the blue of far skies, and the green of the sea by...

10 June, 2025

Let the Sky Fall – Part 1

By John-Paul Menez

Let thy west wind sleep on the lake; Speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver. – William Blake St. Andrews West Sands Beach, March 2025 An ora...

9 June, 2025

A Year in Pictures – 12 Frames in 12 Months

By Scott Ferguson

It’s been one year since I unexpectedly came into custody of a Hasselblad 500CM and a Leica M2. This opened up a whole new creative outlet for me and has become a very ab...

9 June, 2025

Balda CA 35 – A Fantastic little camera shot with Kodak Eastman Double X 5222

By Ibraar Hussain

Having been drooling over Hamish’s article on the Minolta TC-1 and full of fond memories of a black Contax TVS III I used to have, being the best of the Contax T series I&...

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