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Paula Smith
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London based freelance photographer working to capture life’s moments. Still crazy for #filmphotography and vintage cameras.

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Paula Smith @paulasmith.co.uk · Nov 19
Hello!! So many new followers, thank you for connecting. You can read more about me and my #filmphotography love here...

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In Focus - Paula Smith
This week's In Focus interview is with Paula Smith taking us to 53 photographer interview since this series began.
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One from the archives as I still have my head in digital file cleaning and back ups. It's so boring and I'm going out of my mind. 😵‍💫

📷 Ondu MF 6x9 pinhole
🎞️ Provia 100f

#filmphotography #pinhole #fujiprovia
Abstract image taken with a pinhole camera going down a moving escalator
January 26, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Tree trunk with graffitied heart.

Results from the Praktica MTL5 and monolens. With @ilfordphoto.com FP4+ EI 200. Developed in Ilfotec HC 1+31.

#shittycamerachallenge #filmphotography
Detail of dead tree trunk with graffitied heart spray painted. Image is in black and white and slightly soft due to the mono lens used to take the picture on 35mm film. Detail of dead tree trunk with graffitied heart spray painted. Image is in black and white and slightly soft due to the mono lens used to take the picture on 35mm film.
January 23, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Another Friday and a fresh set of #fridayfavourites for your enjoyment, (and ours).  There were a lot of botanical images shared with us this week. We love how plants, trees and flowers come out on our black and white films.

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Image @stargazinqly (IG)
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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'Rise' - which sits opposite the 'Wake Up' tree. (esp for @cliffrazzo.bsky.social 😊)

Taken with a Bronica SQAi & @ilfordphoto.com HP5+ home developed in Ilfotec 1+31.

#fridayfavourites #filmphotography #forestfriday
Black and white image of trees in a foggy wood. The tree trunk nearest has 'Rise' graffitied on it.
January 23, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Did some prints to see how things are shaping with the recent ‘Being Eleven’ portraits.

#printyourwork #portraitphotography
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Spending hours today sorting backups… 😵‍💫 Forced myself out for a short wander in the woods with this now ancient Sony RX100 iii. I know what I’d rather.
Computer screen showing files being copied. Hand holding a small digital camera pointed at a tree.
January 17, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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A ‘cheeky’ mushroom morning. 🍄 😆
A button mushroom held in a hand. It’s shape is suggestive to bottom cheeks.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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This was a welcome sight today ❤️ Does feel a bit earlier than usual..

#springtime
Flowering Snowdrops in the local churchyard.
January 16, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Amazing selection!! Thank you for including mine. 💚
ilfordphoto.com ILFORD Photo @ilfordphoto.com · 11d
We've been looking forward to seeing your images for this week's #2025fave #fridayfavourites

There was a great selection of different styles & subjects shared.

These are our favourites this week.

https://www.ilfordphoto.com/friday-favourites-2025fave/

Image @doc_voronov
January 16, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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My favourite from 2025 using @ilfordphoto.com film. This (I think) is going to be the cover of my next zine...

Ilford Ortho+ 80 developed with Ilfotec HC 1+31. Taken with a Bronica SQAi & 80mm.

#fridayfavourites #2025fave #filmphotography
A black and white image of a large oak tree trunk with 'Wake Up' graffitied on it. In the background there are more oak trees receding into the distance.
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Don't forget that we're looking for your favourite image from last year last taken with our films for this week's #fridayfavourites

Share with us using the usual #fridayfavourites tag along with #2025fave and the film that you used

https://www.ilfordphoto.com/friday-favourites-9th-january-2026/
Friday Favourites 9th January 2026
We're looking forward to seeing more of your fantastic images made with our ILFORD and Kentmere products over the next twelve months.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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The graffitied tree heart looked magnificent it the light today. I took some with the monolens on the Praktica for #shittycamerachallenge. Doesn’t look too bad (I hope.)
Close up of a 35mm negative hanging to dry. The image is of a fallen tree trunk with a graffitied heart. Fallen tree trunk with a graffitied heart.
January 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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The zebra crossing.

A happy accident with a double exposure created from one of the pinholes being open when I took the dark slide out. About a 12 second exposure.

📷 Ondu 4x5 Rise Pinhole Camera
🎞️ Fomapan 200
⚗️ Bellini Euro HC 1+47

#pinhole #believeinfilm #largeformat
Pinhole double exposure of a zebra crossing and the sensory paving that leads to it.
January 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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The sun has appeared. So getting out to grab some vitamin d. Taking this with me for some #shittyCameraChallenge action. Ker-chunk… though a rather ‘sleek’ one. 😎
A Praktica MTL5 camera with modified Industra-50 lens.
January 14, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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The result of the new mural being painted.

📷 Ondu 4x5 Rise Pinhole Camera
🎞️ Fomapan 200
⚗️ Bellini Euro HC 1+47

#pinhole #believeinfilm #largeformat
A pinhole image of a new mural being painted on the side of a building.
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Waking up the large format pinhole muscles from yesterday's wander.

📷 Ondu 4x5 Rise Pinhole Camera
🎞️ Fomapan 200
⚗️ Bellini Euro HC 1+47

#pinhole #believeinfilm #largeformat
A black and white image taken with a pinhole camera of a dumped mattress in the entrance to a block of flats. Pinhole camera taking picture of a dumped mattress to the entrance of a block of flats.
January 13, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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And to think I wasn’t going to leave the house today. I’d have missed these lovely opps. ❤️

#pinhole #believeinfilm
A dumped mattress to the entrance to a block of flats. A pinhole 4x5 camera is capturing the scene. A man and his parrot on a street in Walthamstow.
January 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Not only 'print your work'... but HANG IT also. 😍👏
January 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Doh!!! 2mins 40sec wasted as the dark slide went in ‘under’ the film sheet. 🤬🤬🤬

Oh well, welcome to large format photography and thank the gods it’s ‘only’ Fomapan b&w.

#believeinfilm
January 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Honestly glad I took the Ondu 4x5 pinhole to run errands earlier. It's like an A-list star. So many people stopped to talk to me. Including a lovely man with a real life parrot on his shoulder... We'll hopefully do a portrait session soon. 🤞

#believeinfilm #pinhole
Ondu Pinhole camera pointed at the side of a building where a new mural is being painted featuring 3 people and buildings from Stratford Olympic Park.
January 12, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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I’ve loaded up my 4x5 holders with some Fomapan 200 that’s been chilling in the fridge for months on end. Not sure what to do with them… Any suggestions? 🤔

#believeinfilm
4x5 film holders sit on a desk next to a box of Fomapan 4x5 sheet film.
January 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Swing - from the lunchtime walk looking for light and details in the local forest.

📷 Canon EOS 300 & 85mm 1.8.
🎞️ Kentmere 100
⚗️ Ilfotec HC 1+31 7mins

#believeinfilm #ilfordphoto
A swing seat dangles from a tree in the local woods. The image is in black and white. A swing seat dangles from a tree in the local woods. Underneath is a small frozen puddle. The image is in black and white. Close up of a plastic swing seat dangling from a tree in the local woods. The image is in black and white.
January 11, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Lunchtime walk looking for light and details in the local forest.

📷 Canon EOS 300 & 85mm 1.8.
🎞️ Kentmere 100
⚗️ Ilfotec HC 1+31 7mins

#believeinfilm #ilfordphoto
A frozen puddle reflecting tree branches in black and white a wooden bench with large puddles either side where you'd sit. In black and white. Worn muddy path either side of a post marker in black and white.
January 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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Lunchtime walk looking for details in the local forest.

📷 Canon EOS 300 & 85mm 1.8.
🎞️ Kentmere 100
⚗️ Ilfotec HC 1+31 7mins

#believeinfilm #ilfordphoto
Thorny branch in black and white mossy detail in a tree hole in black and white Dried winter leaves cling to a branch in black and white Dried fern leaves clinging on to the forest floor in black and white.
January 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Yesterdays lunchtime walk carry. My first ‘proper’ camera. Still going strong after 20+ years. Canon EOS 300 & Kentmere 100. Managed to burn through all 36 frames.

#believeinfilm
Hand holding a Canon EOS300 and 85mm lens and Kentmere 100 on a desk.
January 8, 2026 at 11:21 AM