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atm in dark wall, appearing to float in darkness

money from nothing, łódź, sep 2024

#monochrome #blackandwhite #photography #money

A mackerel tabby rests with his head down and his front paws extended. He squints, giving him the appearance of brooding or, more likely, scheming.

Wonton wishes he were a black cat today. #Cat #photography #smartphone

The sun illuminates about a dozen traditional New England gravestones. All are significantly off of plumb vertical. They contrast strongly with the dark evergreens in the background.

On the way back from the beach, I stopped at the burying ground to shoot some film with the Nikonos. The oldest engraved headstone is dated 1718, but there are plain field stones that mark graves from a time closer to Elizabeth Feake Hallet's purchase of the […]

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Happy Halloween to you and Neko! I think Wonton’s just going to declare himself a tabby puma and act accordingly.

A mackerel tabby rests with his head down and his front paws extended. He squints, giving him the appearance of brooding or, more likely, scheming.

Wonton wishes he were a black cat today. #Cat #photography #smartphone

The sun illuminates about a dozen traditional New England gravestones. All are significantly off of plumb vertical. They contrast strongly with the dark evergreens in the background.

On the way back from the beach, I stopped at the burying ground to shoot some film with the Nikonos. The oldest engraved headstone is dated 1718, but there are plain field stones that mark graves from a time closer to Elizabeth Feake Hallet's purchase of the […]

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Thank you! I don't shoot nearly enough photos in New York City, as I have spent decades cultivating the true New Yorker's studied indifference to others' behavior. I am considering hanging out in Central Park with a t-shirt inviting people to be shot in the park. What could possibly go wrong?

@BygByte@Pixelfed.social I know what you’re going to say, Phil, and, since posting, I’ve cropped it tighter to cut out most of the pedestal.

A classic sculptural bust of a woman stands on a plinth with a neutral gallery wall providing the backdrop.

#photography #ClassicMono #monochrome #BelieveInFilm I took my Rollei 35AF to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see if I could learn to produce better results with it. It is so portable that I want to love it and am beginning to think that I will.

A fluffy golden brindle dog with white markings looks at the camera with his pink tongue hanging out. Golden fall foliage provides the backdrop.

Jimmy channels some school portrait vibes. #dog #DogsOfPixelfed #Fedidog #photography

Three puffins perch on the edge of a grassy cliffside. In the background, a fourth puffin has launched itself toward the sea.

More puffins, anyone? I caught one in flight here. Puffins are not graceful fliers. They launch, it seems, using sheer determination. Imagine a penguin flapping so hard and so fast that it lifts off. Something like that. Puffins may be cute, but they have grit. #photography #Iceland #bird #puffin

Ivy surrounds a public payphone.

"Is there a Mr. Tumnus here? Seymour Tumnus?" I don't yet love my Rollei 35AF, but I can't say exactly why. It's not as primitive as the old Nikonos nor as powerful as the Nikon Z6ii. I'm going to shoot a few more rolls before I decide whether to sell it or […]

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A field of wooden pilings rises from the Brooklyn shore of the East River while in the distance stands the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.

I am delighted to have my old Nikonos dive camera repaired and functioning once again. I have heard it called "the poor man's Leica." I don't know about that, but I do love it! #photography #NYC #BelieveInFilm #Nikonos

The left half of the photo shows the right shoulder, mane, and snout of Fortitude, one of the two sculpted lions guarding the library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd street. The right half of the photo shows the arched windows and American flags of the Beaux Art Astor Trust Company building.

A woman in a flowing black outfit admires an element of Jennie C. Jones’s musical sculpture Ensemble. The piece shown rises about three meters from its plinth and is comprised of two geometric prisms made of steel. Musical strings drawn tautly over a soundbar bar on the right hand prism enable it to be tuned and played like a zither.

Visitors to the rooftop garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art chat with each other and take photos over the hedge that defines the terrace’s edge. In the background across Central Park stands the El Dorado and other apartment buildings.

The monochrome photograph provides a low angle view of Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze sculpture of a female figure, right arm raised to its head, its torso half covered by its dress.

There’s something really enjoyable about counting off exposure time by quietly muttering “one Mississippi” to approximate a single second of open shutter. Followers may recall that a friend gave me an old Pho-Tak box camera which appears as my profile avatar […]

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A solitary figure sits on a folding chair with a half dozen empty chairs around him. In the background, people relax on the lawn of Bryant Park.

Alone in the crowd. #photography #NYC #HumansOfBluesky #PhoTak #BelieveInFilm #monochrome #LoFi

A full moon rises above the ocean and the jagged basalt pillars of a sea stack just off shore. The moon’s reflection appears in the still water of the middle distance.

Icelandic weather requires photographers to cultivate a flexible attitude. This particular shot of Reynisfjara Beach was originally planned for moon set, but pouring rain required it to be reimagined for moon rise. Clement Coudeyre, a brilliant guide and […]

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Absolutely. That said, this horse's tendency to play to the camera became almost comical. All I could think of was Ben Stiller's character, Derek Zoolander, a model who called his trademark look "Blue Steel."

The left half of the photo shows the right shoulder, mane, and snout of Fortitude, one of the two sculpted lions guarding the library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd street. The right half of the photo shows the arched windows and American flags of the Beaux Art Astor Trust Company building.

A woman in a flowing black outfit admires an element of Jennie C. Jones’s musical sculpture Ensemble. The piece shown rises about three meters from its plinth and is comprised of two geometric prisms made of steel. Musical strings drawn tautly over a soundbar bar on the right hand prism enable it to be tuned and played like a zither.

Visitors to the rooftop garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art chat with each other and take photos over the hedge that defines the terrace’s edge. In the background across Central Park stands the El Dorado and other apartment buildings.

The monochrome photograph provides a low angle view of Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze sculpture of a female figure, right arm raised to its head, its torso half covered by its dress.

There’s something really enjoyable about counting off exposure time by quietly muttering “one Mississippi” to approximate a single second of open shutter. Followers may recall that a friend gave me an old Pho-Tak box camera which appears as my profile avatar […]

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This photo of the lower Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade was taken with my forty year old Nikonos dive camera. It shows Brooklyn Bridge Park in the foreground, the East River in the middle distance, about three dozen high rise buildings on the opposite shore, and a few puffy clouds floating by above it all. I had planned to come back to this location to use contemporary equipment to shoot digital photos of a full moon behind the Statue of Liberty, but the weather turned against me, so I stayed in bed.

Are you a New York voter? Are you also planning to vote for progressive candidates this November? If so, please consider voting for the candidates of your choice on the Working Families Party line rather than on the Democratic Party line. With New York’s […]

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With the wind tousling its mane and tail, a white Icelandic horse walks along a black sand beach, the sea and sky serving as backdrop.

Blue steel. #photography #horse #Iceland

A chunk of clear, blue-tinted glacial ice sits on a black sand beach as swirls of sea foam recede around it.

Do you like your water crunchy or smooth? The black sand beach where the Glacial Lagoon at Vatnajökull National Park exits to the sea offers water both ways: the swirling dark waves of the North Atlantic or the crystalline blue structure of a glacial fragment […]

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With the wind tousling its mane and tail, a white Icelandic horse walks along a black sand beach, the sea and sky serving as backdrop.

Blue steel. #photography #horse #Iceland

Numerous padlocks attached as romantic tributes (including a large, brass, heart-shaped one) surround a hole through which can be seen a distant train about to enter the tunnel.

Love’s not the lock; it’s the hole cut in the fence. If William Blake didn’t say it, he should have. #NYC #photography #smartphone #love

Numerous padlocks attached as romantic tributes (including a large, brass, heart-shaped one) surround a hole through which can be seen a distant train about to enter the tunnel.

Love’s not the lock; it’s the hole cut in the fence. If William Blake didn’t say it, he should have. #NYC #photography #smartphone #love

A waterfall and river comprise the foreground of the photo, while on the horizon, an orange and rose colored sunrise illuminates the peak of steeply sloped mountain.

The sun rises at Kirkjufell, the iconic "Church Mountain" on Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninusula. This photo was taken a little further downriver from the scene I posted previously. #Iceland #photography

A field of wooden pilings rises from the Brooklyn shore of the East River while in the distance stands the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.

I am delighted to have my old Nikonos dive camera repaired and functioning once again. I have heard it called "the poor man's Leica." I don't know about that, but I do love it! #photography #NYC #BelieveInFilm #Nikonos

A low, wide angle shot shows a field of cracked mud that has been baked by rising geothermal heat.

Geothermal energy has been used in Iceland since the Vikings and currently provides heat and hot water to 90% of the homes. Here at Hverarönd, it has baked the landscape dry. #photography #Iceland #geology

A low, wide angle shot shows a field of cracked mud that has been baked by rising geothermal heat.

Geothermal energy has been used in Iceland since the Vikings and currently provides heat and hot water to 90% of the homes. Here at Hverarönd, it has baked the landscape dry. #photography #Iceland #geology

Thank you! I wouldn't be here in the Fediverse if I couldn't take correction from enthusiastic followers.

A figure walks toward the camera along a boardwalk over a steaming geothermal mudflat.

Iceland often showcases its own geological formation. You can see some of the forces well at Hverir near Lake Myvatn. #photography #Iceland #geology