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• My Analogue 2012: A Year of Firsts!

  
  My whole 2012 year, including my 1 year anniversary of being a Lomographer.
  December 28, 2012 3 likes

• LomoAmigo Meg Pickard Talks Digital Vs Analogue

  
  Meg Pickard describes herself as a creative geek. She's worked in new media for over fifteen years, for some companies you've probably heard of, including as Head of Digital Engagement at The Guardian. Despite her ultimate expert knowledge of all things digital, she still loves to shoot film. We asked her how she mixes the two...
  November 16, 2012 1 comment 8 likes

• Montjuïc Olympic Ring 20 Years Later!

  
  Twenty years is a very long time but when it comes to the Olympic Spirit, 20 years is nothing. Join me on a walk down memory lane to remember those magnificent summer Olympics held in Barcelona 1992, and take a look how the Montjuïc Olympic Ring is still magnificent even after 20 years!
  September 05, 2012 2 comments 3 likes

• Seeing Red at the Olympics with Our Eyes, an LC-A, and Some Redscale...

  
  We went to snap the most guarded brand in the world..the Olympics. With an LC-A loaded with redscale film, it was not only our camera that saw red.
  September 05, 2012 7 likes

• London 2012 and Hyde Park Live Site

  
  In London 2012, you didn't have to have tickets to an event to be part of the action - there were fun free events all over the city for people to get involved.
  August 29, 2012 3 likes

• ★ Analogue Olympic Photos by David Burnett

  
  When you've covered seven Summer Olympic Games, shooting sports may start to feel trite. David Burnett, spotted with a Graflex Speed Graphic camera at this year's games, says "I don’t do a lot of sports coverage in between the Olympics. For me, it’s more than a sports event. I’m always trying to make some bigger contextual view of it." See the evolution of his photos here.
  August 23, 2012 9 likes

• Tilt-Shift Photos of the 2012 Olympics

  
  See the world's biggest sporting event in miniaturized images! These scenes from the 2012 Olympic Games in London were shot by Reuters and Getty Images photographers using tilt-shift lenses, making athletes look like little toy figures battling it out in mini arenas.
  August 16, 2012 1 comment 10 likes

• Olympic Sites: London 2012's ExCel Centre

  
  The ExCel Centre in the East of London, has been a really important part of the London 2012 Olympics. Read on after the jump to find out why.
  August 14, 2012 2 comments 5 likes

• Witnessing the Olympic Torch Relay

  
  Last weekend saw the Olympic Torch Relay pass through my home town of Leeds, and I was close by the action with my trusty Canon EOS to capture the magic.
  August 12, 2012 1 comment 3 likes

• Swinging London Party Highlights

  
  We here at Lomography Gallery Store Soho decided to throw a good ol' Lomobash to celebrate the launch of the long awaited Lomography London city guide and the opening of the greatest sporting event in the world! Check out the highligths and the great party shots from the night by Uslan here.
  August 10, 2012 1 like

• ★ Olympic Portraits Shot Using Century-Old Petzval Lens

  
  These portraits by L.A. Times photographer Jay L. Clendenin are interesting not just because they were shot using a large-format film camera outfitted with antique doublet lenses (possibly from 1840!), but also because he juxtaposed them with his colored digital captures. Which do you like better: old or new?
  August 10, 2012 3 comments 14 likes

• Athens: Olympics 1896 and 2004

  
  Athens has been the site of the Games of the I Olympiad, the first Olympic Games in modern times and the largest international sporting event of the 19th century. Recently, in 2004, Athens again hosted Olympic Games at a cost of 10 billion euros.
  August 08, 2012 5 comments 7 likes

• London Cityslicker: hazelbeeves: On yer bike, guv'nor!

  
  Cyclists are riding on the back of Olympic success in London, and are ruling the roads to boot. Get yourself on two wheels in the Capital and enjoy snapping away the sights with an analogue camera tucked up your sleeve.
  August 07, 2012

• ★ Extreme Olympic Close-Ups

  
  How many of you are glued to your tellies for the 2012 Olympics? Anybody? Well, then get clued in on all the action you missed here! Instead of showing full-frame scenes of courts, rinks, pools, and rings, TIME has zoomed in on some of the World Game's poignant moments in tight shots that are quite literally "in your face."
  August 06, 2012 4 comments 18 likes

• ★ Vintage Olympics Posters

  
  While the world is still hot with the Olympics fever, we searched high and low for some beautiful vintage posters of the iconic sporting event. Now, very quickly, allow us to share our finds with you after the jump!
  August 03, 2012 1 comment 13 likes

• Singapore's Olympic History

  
  64-years is Singapore's history at the Summer Olympic Games! In between there've been many good sportsmen and women including C. Kunalan and P. C. Suppiah for running, Ang Peng Siong for swimming, and then, most unforgettably Tan Howe Liang for weightlifting, for which he gained they country's first Olympic medal.
  August 01, 2012 4 likes

• Lomography Supports Olympic Athlete, Tony Lomo!

  
  Representing the Solomon Islands in Men's Judo, Tony Lomo definitely has our full support! While he won his first qualifying match, he is no longer in the running for an Olympic medal this year. We've still got our eyes on him for the 2016 Olympics though. Lomo on, Tony Lomo!
  July 31, 2012 4 likes

• ★ Vintage Photos of Early Olympics

  
  Can you picture Olympic Games where women compete in full-length skirts instead of skin-tight bodysuits? How about runners taking more than 10 seconds to complete a hundred-meter dash? See them for yourself in these archived Olympic photos from 1936 and beyond.
  July 27, 2012 6 comments 6 likes

• ★ The First Modern Olympic Games

  
  Now that the London games are all set to open today, we bring you yet another teeny look at the pages of history to satisfy that curiosity about the first Olympic Games in the modern times.
  July 27, 2012 2 comments 5 likes

• ★ Banksy and the Games Controversy

  
  With so much buzz around the copyrights for this years big games, Banksy fans are holding their breath regarding his latest works of art. Read more after the jump.
  July 25, 2012 6 comments 8 likes