Photo of the Month
A growing archive of bCLPhoto's monthly featured photograph — the shot, and the story behind it.
October 2026: Standing Still Among Ghosts
A young woman stands still among layered reflections in the glass of Prague's National Theatre. bCLPhoto's Photo of the Month for October 2026.
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.
August 2026 — Bride and groom at Grand Central Terminal, NYC
A bride and groom found a quiet pocket of stillness inside the marble concourse of Grand Central Terminal, holding their smiles while a line of state troopers gathered just steps behind them and commuters blurred past on either side. It's the kind of scene only New York offers without warning — formal elegance, casual authority, and rushed anonymity sharing the same square meter of floor. I had maybe two seconds before someone in the crowd broke the frame.
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.