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Same thing really.

Remember when he was preparing to buy Twitter and many of us were saying, but what about the racism?, and most people were indignantly insisting, "he's not racist!"

Just like with Trump. And now here we are.

Close up of hard shadows on broken snow and ice.

snowcrete
#Fuji #GFX 50s II | GF 50/3.5

3 butternut squash arranged in a bowl. Hard shadows. Black and white image.

squash
#Fuji #GFX 50s II | GF 50/3.5

Tree snag with 3 stones leading into it and a log turned for a bench. Black and white image

snag
#Fujifilm #GFX 50s II | GF 50/3.5
#blackandwhitephotography

Smartphone screenshot showing two New York Times “Breaking News” push notifications. The first, at 5:38 AM, says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over links to Jeffrey Epstein, citing the BBC. The second, at 2:01 AM, says Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s ousted leader, was found guilty of leading an insurrection over his 2024 martial law decree. Each notification includes a “Share” option and a bell icon.

Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.

I need to meet the person at the valentine factory who snuck this caked-up R. Crumb looking squirrel into the variety pack.

🚨"The white community is finally seeing what [Black people] have been saying all along—how government cover ups happen, how those in power lie and manipulate," arrested ICE church protester Nekima Levy Armstrong on Trump cover-ups of Renee Good & Alex Pretti murders.

small sugar skull pictured in close-up on instant film

Definitely seeing the appeal of the #LomoGraflok. Using it with an Omega View 45D | Kodak Ektar 152/4.5.

I really appreciate the combination of serious camera gear* with resolutely consumer-grade film stock and subject matter.

*arguments about how serious this camera is among 4x5s notwithstanding

Really fighting the temptation to go post something earnest on your Chim Pan Alley joke right now

Macro-scale close-up of a butternut squash stem resembling a fist. Instant photograph.

Butternut squash in close-up. Instant photograph

2 more #lomography shots from today.
Shot on an Omega 45D #largeformat.

Instant photo of a table in bright sunlight. A cardboard projector, a Calvin & Hobbes book, and a glove visible on the table top.

It’s not always black and white time around here. Getting the hang of the LomoGraflok.

#instax
#lomography

creek at wintertime, frozen small waterfall, rocks, running water blurred by long exposure. Ground is covered in snow. Black and white image.

Creek in wintertime. One tree reaching right to left in the frame across the water. Foreground is snow-covered rocks, background is frozen water. Black and white image.

Creek under an overpass in wintertime. Rocks in foreground, running water in background. Snow encroaching in the upper left corner. Black and white image.

Snowing in northern Virginia.
Fuji GFX 50s II | Fuji GF 50/3.5

#blackandwhitephotography
#landscapephotography
#fujifilm
#mediumformat

You can call it tripled if you really MUST, but we prefer to think of it as perfectly roasted and delicately sauced rent.

Yes, Michelle. That famously perishable thing called rent. Apt metaphor. No notes.

Well, then you’ve got the ouroboros of using an AI powered detector to detect AI generated text on top of it all.

4x5 view camera shown set up along a creek bank with a dark cloth hanging across it. The camera is set low to the ground

4x5 negative scanned to camera of the scene the view camera was set to capture (see other photo). A creek in winter, water flowing over a small lip in the creek bed, trees lining the far bank, rocks lining the near bank.

Strolled out with the 4x5 to take a few exposures at the creek. Also pictured: one of those exposures, developed in CineStill Df96, scanned with Fuji GFX 50s II | TT Artisan 100 macro.

#blackandwhitephotography
#largeformat
#filmphotography
#viewcamera

You can tell a lot about a person based on whether they prefer Scrawl’s “11:59, It’s January” or The Zombies’ “This Will Be Our Year” for NYD.

Mostly you can tell whether they’re depressed, but that’s still kind of a lot.

A 4x5 view camera standing on a tripod

Me: I am comfortable on different varieties of analog and digital cameras.

Also me: sure about that? Ok, then: LET’S GET READY TO RUUUUUUMMMMMBLE

a man in a black cape is standing in front of a brick wall with the words " other children horror theater " ALT: a man in a black cape is standing in front of a brick wall with the words " other children horror theater "

Count Floyd?

Positively DELPHIC

Or just you’ve been there at least once. Basically the same thing, really. Distinction without a difference and all.

This is a terrifyingly accurate description of Morristown, NJ.

Caught a reel yesterday that talked about Jerry Garcia’s guitar tone in 1972, and 1) yes, that’s a VERY nice clean tone and a minimal setup, but 2) did you really need to get 4-5 bars of “Playing in the band” stuck in my head to make your point?

And yet it is among the first three songs anyone ever suggests as counterpoint to my assertion that Christmas music, up to and including novelty singles, is aesthetically intolerable.

Two images from the same negative arranged vertically. Subject is several buildings converging in a stack of angles. Image was taken in Richmond, VA. Top image is a classic cyanotype , and the bottom has been toned in coffee

Cyanotype toning: top image is straight up. Bottom image toned in coffee for 30 minutes. Both printed on Hannemühle Platinum Rag.

Bottom print was not bleached before toning. I’m mildly ok with the amount of paper staining, given the deep navy outcome. Not wild about the contrast on these overall.

It takes true courage to “ you can’t fire me, I quit” a judicial panel.

Ok, but hear me out: what if I neither want to go to work, NOR bang on the drum all day? What then?

branches without leaves seen from below on an overcast day, appearing as an incursion of dark threads into a light colored space

winter trees

Fuji X100VI

#fujifilm
#x100vi

Plus, an extant example of Cooper Black in the wild