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Holiday Photo Contest 2024 Gallery

Please click here to see the rules for the contest.


Josh Crosby
Taken last Christmas with a 1954 C-3 with the Sandmar 35mm wide-angle lens

Peter Samsonov
Camera: Argus C
Lens: kit lens (3.5/50, before the Cintar branding)
Film: Lomography Earl Gray

I originally brought this Argus along as a glorified rangefinder for the Voightlander Brillant that I was testing, but as long as I had to carry it anyway I decided to load it and give this lens another go.

The skeleton was taken at f/3.5 and 1/30 since it was in a dark storefront. The other photos were taken at f/11 and 1/300 shutter speed since I wanted to see how sharp the lens is edge to edge when stopped down.

Steven Wagner

Camera - Argus A2F
Film - Harmon Phoenix 200 35mm film shot at
an EI of 125
Processed - Home Processed using the Arista C41 Color kit.  Scanned using a mirrorless camera and color inverted using Negative Lab Pro.

Shot 7 Dec 2024. Photograph of a Christmas tree on the grounds of the Garner Recreation Center in downtown Garner North Carolina.

Camera - Argus A2F
Film - Harmon Phoenix 200 35mm film shot at
an EI of 125
Processed - Home Processed using the Arista C41 Color kit.   Scanned using a mirrorless camera and color inverted using Negative Lab Pro.

Shot 7 Dec 2024. Photograph of a Christmas wreath attached to a light pole in downtown Garner North Carolina.
Camera - Argus A2F
Film - Arista EDU 100, aka Fomapan Classic 100 ISO
Processed - Kodak HC110B at 70F for 6 minutes.  Slightly push processed

Photograph of a snowflake decoration attached to a light pole in downtown Wendell North Carolina.

Rich Reeder

Attached are the three photos for the Argus 2024 Holiday Photo Contest.  I used a 1947 Argus C3, with Ilford FP4+ b/w film, developed in HC-110e.

All 3 photos are pretty much the same.  (12.24.2024.  4 sec, f/4, Luminaria on curb.)
Someone came around & left the raw materials for a Christmas Eve Luminaria Extravaganza for our street.  I thought that would be nice, & put my dozen or so white paper bags out.  Only the neighbor & I participated.  Just imagine the whole street lined with these things.  Looks pretty good, doesn't it?  I mean in your minds eye.  Looks pretty good.  I took mine in around 9pm.  I think the neighbor left his out for a day or two.

Thanks for 'hosting' the Holiday Photo Contest again.  I miss Ed Kowalski's notes & emails about the event coming up.  I snapped these & submitted them in remembrance of him.

Emily Walpole

Christmas Tree in JFK Airport

Taken in JFK International Airport, while on my way to join my wife in England as part of an international move. I was departing at 11 at night, so the airport was nearly deserted and most of the shops had already closed up.

Clapham Christmas Wreathe

This festive door was located in Clapham.

Second Place

Santa of Victoria Station

Taken at the Victoria train station in London, the day after I arrived in the country.  I snapped this quickly as a child was leaving his lap and before another jumped in.
All taken on an Argus C3 with a Soligor 35mm f/3.5 wide-angle lens. The film used was Portra 800. All photos were processed and scanned by a local lab in Chiswick, London.

Elizabeth Walpole

Christmas Bells of Covent Garden

Holiday Carousel and the London Eye

Piccadilly Circus

Third Place
All photos were taken on an Argus C3 with a Soligor 35mm f/3.5 wide-angle lens. The film used was Portra 800. All photos were processed and scanned by a local lab in Chiswick, London.

William Hamblen
Packages are all unwrapped and bows are on the table.  Pre-WWII Argoflex E.  Outdated size 120 Kodak Portra 160 (08/2024). Existing room light and widow light. f/18 at 1 sec. as near as I could guess the time.

Jerry Cochran


First Place
My Argus CR-1 shutter jammed open on about every other shot and seemed erratic on the others. I used my Argus SLR (original) for the rest of the shots. The Christmas tree decoration was with the Argus SLR. Available light + a flashlight. Setting about 1/15th sec. and F 5.6. Normal lens. Edu 100 film, 20 + years outdated. Rated at ISO 25 to compensate for the age.

The tree branch was shot on the Argus CR-1. Outdoor light on a dull day. Setting about the same as the indoor shot. Same film. Greatly cropped. Both were developed in Acufine.

I shot several pictures and wanted to send 3 but these were the only 2 that looked even half way presentable to my eyes.
Thanks for looking.

James Davis
All photos were shot with an Argus C44R with Kodak Image Pro 100. The photos were show using an original working  Argus attached light meter. The indoor photo was taken using the C44 flash attachment with a M5 bulb. The people in the photo were members of the Lake Cherokee Photo Club. Most  had never seen a working flash bulb camera.  The lenses used was a 35mm for the outdoors and a 50mm for the indoor photos.