Rob Klurfield - The Indecisive Moment

Between Caldwell and Douthat NYT is too much of a mouthpiece for the flagrantly foul sophistry of the Claremont Institute. Enough already. I am all for free speech, which also means I’m all for deciding to tune out certain speakers when I’ve heard enough of them. (Me Claremont McKenna College 1981.)

#ClassicMono #blackandwhite #Istanbul #Galata #StreetScape #CityScape #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #StreetPhotography

“Cause Play?”
10-Second Fiction

“Cause what? Cuz play? Huh? Never heard of that. I just like coordinating my colors,” said Earnstyne earnestly.

Oct 5, 25
Penn Station Newark

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#streetphotography #peopleinmotion #portrait #streetportrait #documentaryphotography #streetpeople

"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)

A color photo of an African American man with a red tie and hat smoking a cigarette. A red truck is in the background. Photo by Saul Leiter. 1959

A self portrait in black and white by Saul Leiter. He has a camera in his hands and is looking through the lens. 1960

A color photo by Saul Leiter of a woman sitting at a small table at a Paris cafe. 1959

📷 Saul Leiter {three of my favorites}
#photography

Vivian Maier
Arvella Gray, 1967
Maxwell St. Market, Chicago

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“Beside the Point”
10-Second Fiction

An hour already. Rose waited for Gilberto to pick her up, which she knew wouldn’t happen. Maybe ICE had got him. Finally. Or, likelier, he just forgot. He was an idiot in two languages.

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#10secondfiction #ice #thelastpayphone

A black-and-white photograph of tide pools along a rocky coastline, with calm water reflecting the sky and patches of seaweed clinging to the stones. Captured on Eastman Kodak Double-X film with a Voigtländer Perkeo II and 80mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar lens, developed in XTOL 1:1 for smooth tones and rich texture in the rocks and water.

To Capture the Sky, Capture the Sea

Voigtländer Perkeo II
80mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar lens
Eastman Kodak Double-X
XTOL 1:1
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#FilmPhotography #Photography 🎞️ 📷 #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #PacificGrove #Kodak #XX #Voigtlander #XTOL #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #MediumFormat

The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944

“Rear Window: Xmas Tree Farm”

10:26am
Sept 22, 2025
58th St between 10th & 11th Avenues
NYC

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#streetphotography no #peopleinmotion #theindecisivemoment #theindecisivemomentstreetview #documentaryphotography #fineartphotography #street #streetscenes

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“Shirttails Flapping in the Wind”

2:27pm
Sept 29, 2025
Southgate Parkway, Morris Township

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#streetphotography #peopleinmotion #theindecisivemoment #documentaryphotography #fineartphotography #shirt #abandoned

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😂even my own feet — perhaps especially my own feet — creep me out.😉

“Gait”

Shoes a relatively recent invention in the history of we erect-walking bipeds.

3:49pm
Sept 22, 2025
Macy’s 34th St
NYC

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#streetphotography #peopleinmotion #theindecisivemoment #portrait #streetportrait #documentaryphotography #fineartphotography #streetpeople

"It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does."

Agnes Moorehead (1900 - 1974)

“Disappearing Ink”

12:49pm
Sept 22, 2025
54th St & Seventh Ave
NYC

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#streetphotography #peopleinmotion #theindecisivemoment #theindecisivemomentstreetview #portrait #streetportrait #documentaryphotography #fineartphotography #street #streetscenes #streetpeople #tattoo #ink

“Night Visitor”

1:44am
September 27, 2025

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#insect #streetphotography #peopleinmotion #theindecisivemoment #theindecisivemomentstreetview

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“Existential Dreadlock”

2:51pm
Sept 22, 2025
53rd & Sixth
NYC

Suboptimal; shot directly into the sun. Sometimes you take what you can get.

©️Robert E. Klurfield

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Just saw “The Last Class.” You, my dear man, are a treasure. And, you are right.

“Free Speech”

Even speech with which we disagree. Killing, jailing, deporting, firing, etc. folks is not okay. The antidote to speech you don’t like is to talk back, challenge with facts and debate.

Walking to MoMA earlier this week.

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#streetphotography #stephencolbert

“Vaping with the Golem”

2:51pm
Sept 22, 2025
53rd St & Sixth Ave
NYC

©️Robert E. Klurfield

#streetphotography #peopleinmotion #theindecisivemoment #theindecisivemomentstreetview #portrait #streetportrait #documentaryphotography #fineartphotography #street #streetscenes #streetpeople

Ten-Second Fiction
“Soirée (Nos. 2-5)”

Although she knew for certain that he was messing with her, playing stupid, Patty issued a gentle correction just to let Ev know she was on to him. “Don’t act like an idiot. Debutante ball, not dilettante ball, Everett.”

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