Photo of the Month
A growing archive of bCLPhoto's monthly featured photograph — the shot, and the story behind it.
September 2026 — Painted Vaults of the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
The ceiling is the real subject here — painted barrel vaults in ochre, blue and brick red, repeating down the arcade until the eye stops trying to count them. This frame comes from a Canon EOS 40D and a memory card from 2010, rediscovered sixteen years later while building out the Istanbul archive; the market has since had its roof restored, so this version of the light doesn't exist anymore.
June 2026 — Rain on Rua Nova do Carvalho, Pink Street
Pink Street was quiet that evening, rain still drying on the cobbles and the neon just starting to hold its own against the fading daylight. A couple crossed under identical umbrellas, and for a second the wet stone doubled everything — the lanterns, the buildings, the colour. It's the kind of frame that only lasts a few minutes.
May 2026 — Some Days, the Storm Is the Shot
We arrived in the middle of a torrential downpour and almost turned back — but we didn't. Almost without realising it, there it was: 40,000 basalt columns rising from the ground, with the Atlantic crashing against them. On a day like that, Finn MacCool's legend doesn't seem far-fetched at all.