The Lech: The Last Wild One – An Alpine river and its landscape in the 21st century
The Lech – It is considered one of the last untamed rivers in Europe north of the Alps. Whereby ‘untamed’ is a relative term here: coming in the Alps from Vorarlberg to the Tyrolean-Bavarian border near Füssen, the river is powerful, rough and wild. Shortly after the Bavarian border, however,…
A gift from Dominik Scharf: The power of prints in a Digital World
The relationship we have with every photographer we have published since the very beginning of this project is something truly special. Beyond the wonderful articles and interviews that reach you, the visible side of this project, there is an entire exchange of emails and messages that sometimes go beyond the…
Premium/ Telephoto lenses for landscapes
Being a mostly self-taught photographer I have come across most of my ideas by simple trial and error. I usually stick with things that just feel right to me, a gut feeling. I don’t tend to look at norms or best practices as closely as perhaps I should and that…
Fuji X Passion Photography Magazine – February 2025
We are delighted to announce the release of the February 2025 edition of Fuji X Passion magazine!📸 Discover the stories behind the lens! ✨ Photography is more than just pressing the shutter – it’s an extension of who we are, a third eye that reveals the world in new ways. In this edition, we dive into…
Lens Review – TTArtisan 75mm F1.5 “Swirly Bokeh”
On TTArtisan, Biotars and Adapting M42TTArtisan (not to be confused with fellow Chinese lens manufacturers 7artisans) has recently started remaking almost 1 for 1 very special and unique lenses from yesteryear, the most recent being the 75mm F1.5 based on the legendary double-gaussian Biotar design from Zeiss Jena. Before this,…
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With the advent of mobile phone photography, Instagram and other social media platforms, the notion that visual arts (especially photography) are tied and constrained to these mediums has not only become the popular thought but the driving force behind many people’s decision to take up photography. With phrases such as…
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Retiring the old 2011 27″ for the new 24″ M1 iMac
I bought my first Apple Macintosh, I think in 1985, and was amazed at how easy it was to use compared to other offerings. I moved through updates and models, along the way being offered a position at an art school because of the adoption by designers and photographers of…
My Camera Set-Up and Settings for Fuji X Cameras
Hi everyone, and welcome to this blog post on the camera settings I use with the Fuji X System. This is a question I have received several times and it often comes up during workshops where I see so many folks struggling with their cameras and settings. Now, while the…
Ashok Viswanathan: X-Pro1 and Varnasi on the Ganges, India
I have always wanted to visit Varnasi, a city I heard so much about. Its one of the worlds oldest living cities being over 5000 years old and it looks it. Its also the holiest city on the banks of the Ganges and to die here is to ensure a…
Greek Mythology Today and the FujiFilm X-M1
Naxos Island rises up in the middle of the Aegean Sea. For nearly two decades the island has been my second home. In the center of the island is Mount Zas, the birthplace of mighty Zeus, the king of the gods. I’m very familiar with island life so I usually…
INSIDE YOUR CAMERA BAG: John Hughes
I’ve been using the same camera bag for nearly seven years, the Hadley Small from Billingham this bag is perfect for street photography and it fits everything I need for a day on the streets. For me, my camera bag had to be small and lightweight, but at the same…
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Hello! My name is Kris Desautels and I’m a 43 year old street photographer from Chicago who’s been shooting for almost 2 years. My wife and I have an apartment located on the North Side, a short walk to the shores of Lake Michigan, and just a few stops on…
Premium/ How to focus to infinity for night photography
Focusing in photography is a vital aspect of getting sharp images, as it’s impossible to sharpen an out of focus image. However, how do you focus to infinity for night sky photography when everything is completely pitch black? This article will explain the easiest way to focus any lens for…
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Surely many of us adore the output of the Fujifilm JPG engine. We all like to have our Provia, ClassicChrome or ClassicNegative film simulations at hand or maybe even use so-called “recipes”. It’s perfectly fine, but sometimes we like, wish, or have to deal with RAWs. Fuji X-T1 . @50mm…
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When I switched from Canon to Fuji in 2016, the last thing I thought about was the battery life. I had more to think about, like file quality, construction, lenses, weight, features… After starting to use Fuji equipment, I actually noticed some difference in battery life to what I was…
Premium/ “Dealing with the unknown is a big part of landscape photography.”
My name is Anthony, I just got 34 this year and I am a traveller, a coffee lover and a French landscape photographer. I totally fell in love with photography in my mid-twenties and I spent around 7 or 8 years on the road exploring the world from one corner…
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Lessons under the Tuscan sun
2022 has been a strange year. Not strange like the last two, where the pandemic took a toll on our lives, but strange for me. It is the first year when travelling has been possible again, and yet, up until the 26th of October, due to work, I had only two free days this year. […]
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Mauricio Reis returned to the familiar shores of Figueira da Foz, Portugal, where he had captured many sunrises and sunsets…
A plethora of stories in motion
My name is Srideep Banerjee, a 20-year-old resident of West Bengal, India. I am currently pursuing B.Tech in Electronics and…
Photography on the road
As I write this, I am parked up with a sea view. Coffee in hand, seagulls flying overhead. Last night,…
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Friends, coffee and motorcycles in Buenos Aires
Friendships are often born out of common interests, such as…
Tango is waiting for you
Talking about Tango, the first thing that comes to mind…
Fujifilm X100V and X-E4 photo adventure in Nebraska
The Fujifilm X100V just may be my favorite camera of…
Frozen Beauty – Taking a break from reality
When I was a child, I never really took much…
Made by the Sea – Adventures in Portugal
Schist Houses of TalasnalIn the interior of Portugal, about an hour from Coimbra and 30 mins up a steep winding road from Lousã, is the old town of Talasnal, comprised entirely of schist houses, where “schist” refers to flat rock slabs stacked and assembled into homes. People have been building…
Post lockdown street photography
As a street photographer I feel a sense of duty to document the world as I see it and how it constantly evolves by the day. However, what I never expected to see in my lifetime was a global pandemic that changed the world as we know it, in a…
On holiday with the the Fuji X10
There is now a folder of scans of old photographs, some of them very beautiful. They go back to the time of my birth and run through my late teens. All the early ones are by my father, a civil engineer, now retired. Then there are some weird ones from…
A box of chocolates
I am Francisco Cribari, a Brazilian street photographer. Street photography is one of my passions. I like to walk around in public places photographing ordinary people going about their daily lives in candid fashion. I am drawn to life, to real life. Robert Doisneau once said that the marvels of…
Hidden but not unseen
Along the West coast of Ireland, the iconic Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, loom large against the harsh Atlantic shore. The spectacle draws tourists from around the globe, each hoping to capture this geological marvel in bright sunlight. Only today, the forecast predicted otherwise. Before leaving, I knew the…
Artificial Paradise
The oldest vivid photography memory I can recall – is a shadowplay photo I took in Switzerland with my dad’s analog Canon Rebel. The guillotine shutter sound really hit me. I then first started photographing our skateboarding days in Aalter, Belgium – with a portable webcam, that could save up…