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Jason Ethen

@jsnethen.bsky.social

Stranger in a strange land. Just trying to make sense of it all. I try to speak with my amateur photography. I believe in shadows truth lies.

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18.10.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#photochat A1

Jason here. I like B&W digital photography using my iPhone. Started in 2014 as a way to express inner conflicts. My first project was clouds and it just expanded from there to anything that gives me a feeling of Aha!

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Monochrome. A cat in a bathroom sink framed by the open bathroom door. The cat’s eyes reflect light and are two white disks.

Monochrome. A cat in a bathroom sink framed by the open bathroom door. The cat’s eyes reflect light and are two white disks.

#photography #caturday

18.10.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

@albert-ibars.bsky.social

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17.10.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Monochrome. A small cluster of modest headstones positioned between clumps of trees in a foggy graveyard

Monochrome. A small cluster of modest headstones positioned between clumps of trees in a foggy graveyard

#photography #scape #maryland

African-American cemetery belonging to Janes United Methodist Church outside of Chestertown, MD.

17.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Josephine Baker by Baron George Hoyningen-Huene for Vanity Fair (1927)

15.10.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Monochrome. An Angel in a Yorktown church graveyard kneels and lifts its right arm to the sky. The afternoon sun creates contrasting shadows. Behind the Angel are the horizontal lines of an old white clapboard structure. Old and white describes Yorktown.

Monochrome. An Angel in a Yorktown church graveyard kneels and lifts its right arm to the sky. The afternoon sun creates contrasting shadows. Behind the Angel are the horizontal lines of an old white clapboard structure. Old and white describes Yorktown.

#photography #yorktown

15.10.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A woman in a sleeveless dress and beehive performing on stage.

A woman in a sleeveless dress and beehive performing on stage.

Sugar Pie DeSanto, Manchester (ca. 1964)

Photo: Steve Richards

14.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Historical marker:

OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

ONLY REMAINING ANGLICAN CHURCH IN TALBOT COUNTY. BUILT 172I AS A CHAPEL-OF-EASE BY DONATIONS OF 60,000 POUNDS OF TOBACCO AND
100 POUNDS STERLING. ORIGINALLY NAMED ST. LUKE'S IT WAS A PLACE OF WORSHIP UNTIL 1829.

RECONSTRUCTED IN 1854, BUT LATER FELL INTO DISREPAIR UNTIL RESTORED IN 1949 TO ORIGINAL DESIGN WITH HIGH BOX PEWS. HANGING SIDE PULPIT AND GALLERY WITH ORIGINAL ROYAL ARMS.

VESTRY OF OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Historical marker: OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ONLY REMAINING ANGLICAN CHURCH IN TALBOT COUNTY. BUILT 172I AS A CHAPEL-OF-EASE BY DONATIONS OF 60,000 POUNDS OF TOBACCO AND 100 POUNDS STERLING. ORIGINALLY NAMED ST. LUKE'S IT WAS A PLACE OF WORSHIP UNTIL 1829. RECONSTRUCTED IN 1854, BUT LATER FELL INTO DISREPAIR UNTIL RESTORED IN 1949 TO ORIGINAL DESIGN WITH HIGH BOX PEWS. HANGING SIDE PULPIT AND GALLERY WITH ORIGINAL ROYAL ARMS. VESTRY OF OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

@historicalmarker.bsky.social

14.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Monochrome. Shot through window screen, and out of focus river scene in the fog, the dark river creating a horizontal band below, the fog creating a gray horizontal band above. A wooden dock inserts itself from the lower left corner at a 45Β° angle.

Monochrome. Shot through window screen, and out of focus river scene in the fog, the dark river creating a horizontal band below, the fog creating a gray horizontal band above. A wooden dock inserts itself from the lower left corner at a 45Β° angle.

#photography

14.10.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

#freethefederalgovt

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10-14-2025: Good morning from #Philly, the best city!

Discovered this #unscriptedmoment in my archive from February 2019.

#streetphotography #phillyphotography #streetphoto #eastcoastkin #humansofbluesky #photographersofbluesky #blackandwhitephotography #streetportrait #SEPTA #caughtyoulooking

14.10.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#photography #BlueSkyMonday

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@young-spartacus.bsky.social

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#photography #stunday

12.10.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@luiscordoba.bsky.social

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11.10.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#photography #caturday

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Monochrome. A foggy cemetery, dotted with headstones. It is the African-American cemetery outside of Chestertown, MD. Part of Janes Methodist Church.

Monochrome. A foggy cemetery, dotted with headstones. It is the African-American cemetery outside of Chestertown, MD. Part of Janes Methodist Church.

#photography #scape #maryland

African-American cemetery belonging to Janes United Methodist Church outside of Chestertown, MD.

10.10.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10-9-2025: It feels like fall in Philly today!

Her elegance, poise and bright red coat caught my eye.
Photographed October 2018 in Philly.

#streetphotography #phillyphotography #streetphoto #eastcoastkin #humansofbluesky #photographersofbluesky #colorphotography #streetportrait #unscriptedmoments

09.10.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Monochrome. Women In Black hold vigil at in intersection in Chestertown, MD. Their signs read PEACE TRUTH PEACE JUSTICE HOPE. A black Labrador sits at their feet.

Monochrome. Women In Black hold vigil at in intersection in Chestertown, MD. Their signs read PEACE TRUTH PEACE JUSTICE HOPE. A black Labrador sits at their feet.

#photography #HumansOfBlueSky #Maryland #Chestertown

Womeninblack.org

09.10.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Monochrome. Anglican Church surrounded by a graveyard. 

OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

ONLY REMAINING ANGLICAN CHURCH IN TALBOT COUNTY. BUILT 1721 AS A CHAPEL-OF-EASE BY DONATIONS OF 60,000 POUNDS OF TOBACCO AND
100 POUNDS STERLING. ORIGINALLY NAMED ST. LUKE'S IT WAS A PLACE OF WORSHIP UNTIL 1829.

RECONSTRUCTED IN 1854, BUT LATER FELL INTO DISREPAIR UNTIL RESTORED IN 1949 TO ORIGINAL DESIGN WITH HIGH BOX PEWS. HANGING SIDE PULPIT AND GALLERY WITH ORIGINAL ROYAL ARMS.

Monochrome. Anglican Church surrounded by a graveyard. OLD WYE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ONLY REMAINING ANGLICAN CHURCH IN TALBOT COUNTY. BUILT 1721 AS A CHAPEL-OF-EASE BY DONATIONS OF 60,000 POUNDS OF TOBACCO AND 100 POUNDS STERLING. ORIGINALLY NAMED ST. LUKE'S IT WAS A PLACE OF WORSHIP UNTIL 1829. RECONSTRUCTED IN 1854, BUT LATER FELL INTO DISREPAIR UNTIL RESTORED IN 1949 TO ORIGINAL DESIGN WITH HIGH BOX PEWS. HANGING SIDE PULPIT AND GALLERY WITH ORIGINAL ROYAL ARMS.

#photography #maryland #WyeMill

08.10.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@albert-ibars.bsky.social

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@wiskunkle.bsky.social

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Monochrome. Carved head a figure with long hair and a crown of stars, prominent breasts. Was once on the prow of a 19th century sailing vessel. At the Museum if nautical history in Saint Michaels, Maryland.

Monochrome. Carved head a figure with long hair and a crown of stars, prominent breasts. Was once on the prow of a 19th century sailing vessel. At the Museum if nautical history in Saint Michaels, Maryland.

#photography #maryland

07.10.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Color. A blue umbrella suspended from a string of lights against a blue sky and green tree. Shot from below.

Color. A blue umbrella suspended from a string of lights against a blue sky and green tree. Shot from below.

#photography #BlueSkyMonday #ohio #marietta

06.10.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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#maryland #chestertown

05.10.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sydette is in Black and White

Sydette is in Black and White

When you take a picture so good you’re stunned by your own Aura

Like damn

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Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 | National Gallery of Art The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.

national gallery of art is closed as of tomorrow (10/5), which is too bad because the photography and the black arts movement show is incredible www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...

05.10.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Monochrome. Sunrise over a New England graveyard. The headstones cast long shadows.

Monochrome. Sunrise over a New England graveyard. The headstones cast long shadows.

#photography #stunday #maryland

05.10.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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