photo of the year 2025 Archives

A black & white photo of a two skiers on a ski slope, with long afternoon shadows.

2 February, 2026

Shadows On-Piste by Harrison Matthew – 35mmc Photo of the year 2025

By Hamish Gill

Just a quick post to announce the “winner” of the photo of the year 2025 – Shadows On-Piste by Harrison Matthew. You can see the original post about the photo ...

2 January, 2026

Photos of the year 2025 – Pick Your Favourite!

By Hamish Gill

As promised, here is a post containing a recap of everyone’s photos of the year, 2025. I am going to make this pretty informal, but I like the idea of it being a little bi...

A wide format photo of a row of tightly parked moped motorcycles

31 December, 2025

Moped Panorama, Rome – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Colin O'S

My submission to the Photo of the Year collection was taken back in January 2025, in Rome. I had just got on a city bus, waiting at its first stop, when I noticed this line of p...

31 December, 2025

Siblings – My Photo(s) Of The Year 2025

By Alexander Seidler

Selecting photos is a tough job in my opinion. Nevertheless the choice for my pair of shots had been clear because this little “siblings” series occupied me for a lo...

30 December, 2025

Foggy train crossing – My Photo of The Year 2025

By Christopher Welch

I love this picture. I immediately thought of it when I read Hamish’s Call for Entries for photo of 2025. One Sunday morning in October, I was on my way out the door to meet my ...

A woman in a blue dress and blue hat starts to walk towards a covered bridge. She is walking on a ramp covered with fallen brown leaves. Above her is a red maple tree with bright red leaves. The covered bridge has many small lights suspended from its ceiling.

29 December, 2025

A covered bridge in Alabama – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Don Kasak

This year was a big deal for me as far as photography goes. My enjoyment of shooting with film was rekindled, thanks to winning a barely-functional camera in a contest. One roll...

sunflowers with a sunflare taken on film with a plastic camera

29 December, 2025

Sunflares and Sunflowers – My favorite photo of 2025.

By DeeDee Yelverton

Summers where I live range from hot, to very hot, to blistering hot. Thankfully, this year’s summer was only hot. That meant I was outside more often, which I love. I took...

28 December, 2025

Capo Testa, Sardinia – My Photo of the Year 2025

By Patrick Medd

2025 has been a mixed bag for me, photographically. Looking at my Lightroom catalogue I can see that I have roughly half the number of images for the year compared to 2024 and t...

Mike Amos on Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge — January 1st, 2026
Wow! Scott! What an incredible article and series of photos. I love the variety of film you shot with too…
Mike Amos on Storytelling with Film
Hey Scott! No problems on the formatting! I noticed mine also became a wall of text after I submitted my…
Scott Gitlin on 5 Frames of Queen Califa with a Holga
Perfect match-up of subject and Holga camera.

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