Latest posts tagged with #DemocraticCamera on Bluesky
A black-and-white photograph of the interior of a pub on Thursday lunch hour.
Stopped in for plate of chorizo-cheddar fries & a cocoa espresso milk stout. Not a healthy meal, but satisfying.
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A black-and-white photograph of a Midwestern farmstead briefly illuminated by sunlight through storm clouds.
Before the storm hits.
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An oriel window in which can be seen a white mannequin torso.
Your basic torso in a window.
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A black-and-white photograph shot in an old automotive garage turned into a bicycle bar five minutes after it opened. Two men sit at a table, having a beer. A pirate flag hangs in one of the windows.
The 'emptiness' of a bar when it first opens.
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Near the entrance of a big box store -- a regular shopping cart, a wheelchair, a pair of blue wheelchair carts, and a couple of serious trolleys. A garage-style door is in the background.
Grocery Day
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A black-and-white photograph of a bearded man wearing a rather battered hat quietly napping. He's sitting behind two tables on which a wide selection of knives is laid out. The photo was taken at a flea market.
Guy selling knives at the weekend flea market took a wee nap.
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A man with a long beard wearing glasses and a baseball cap counting money at his stall in a flea market.
I love going to flea markets, though I almost never buy anything. I already own too much stuff. But flea markets have a very weird energy that appeals to me.
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A black-and-white photograph of four ducks in a marsh, swimming away from the photographer.
Four ducks along the bike path.
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The dusty passenger side window of an old Ford F1 panel truck. The lower left of the window has been shattered by bullet, allowing moisture into the abandoned vehicle, which has frozen over, leaving small ice bubbles along the fracture lines. A farm field can be seen through the windshield and driver's side window.
Target practice?
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On a cold, grey day, an old asphalt bike trail beside a pond. Winter-nude trees line the path.
It won't be long until we begin to see a touch of green along this old bike trail beside the marsh.
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A black-and-white photo of a man on a street corner holding two signs; one reads "Party lines shouldn't protect pedophiles," the other reads, "Honk if you hate president pedophiles." A third of the frame is taken up by the blunt hood of an enormous pickup truck.
Ain't that America.
I'm in a small town, there's a young couple on a street corner holding up Trump/Pedo signs. Before I can get a photo of both of them, a monstrous bastard truck pulls up, blocking my view.
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The sidewalk outside a small restaurant/bar at night. There are tables, chair, benches...all empty. A neon sign provides illumination.
Ain't nobody dining al fresco when it's 28F.
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Looking down from a height at people in shirtsleeves on a sunny day, carrying take-out lunches.
It was 64F yesterday. Sun was shining, people were out walking, taking their lunch in parks and plazas, and nobody was thinking we'd find ourselves dragged into another stupid completely avoidable conflict.
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A woman looks at her phone while walking her wee dog down a city street. An ugly clump of dirty snow is on the sidewalk, and a rather large sign says, "Park".
I'm not convinced they need such a large facility to park Corgis.
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A window casts weird reflections of the street; the photographer's reflection is lost in the shadows.
Every so often I'm reminded of one of the very first lessons we took from The Wire. "Life just be that way, I guess."
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A blue child's pennyfarthing bicycle leaning against a bookcase holding mostly books on cycling and bicycles.
Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Random child's #pennyfarthing edition.
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Behind the scene at a defunct barbecue restaurant--a sheet of plywood, a white plastic chair that's been tipped over, and in the distance, a wooden palette illuminated by sunlight. A diagonal shadow splits the scene.
White plastic chair
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A black-and-white photograph of a work of public art comprised of radiating lines of metal. In the background is a tall building. The contrail of a passing aircraft makes a faint white diagonal line.
Contrail.
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A black-and-white photograph of two people having a quiet chat in a hallway outside an event center.
Morley Callaghan said, "There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching." The same is true of photographers.
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A photograph of the office of Ichi Bike Garage looking out onto the street. On the desk is an eclectic assortment of stuff.
Inside looking out of Ichi Bike Garage.
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A black-and-white photograph of a large cow (or it may be an ordinary sized cow, how would I know?) in a barn. A farmer (I assume he's a farmer, though, again, how would I know? He could be an accountant.) walks by.
You know how you decide to take a nice quiet walk through the state fairgrounds and you find yourself caught up in a cow show? Well...
(I'm pretty sure it's NOT called a 'cow show' but they were showing cows.)
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A black-and-white photograph of two trashcans reflected in a window. In the background are various architectural structures.
Her: What are you doing now?
Me: Taking a photo of trashcans reflected in the window.
Her: ...patient sigh...
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A man wearing a red backpack on a bicycle rides through a floodgate and down on a bike path that runs along a river. A bridge can be seen in the background.
Through the floodgate, down by the river.
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A black-and-white photograph of winter-bare bushes silhouetted against a building by a patch of sunlight.
Derek Mahon is right; the sun rises in spite of everything.
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A red bollard, yellow stair steps, black shadows.
Giving in to my #bollard fixation.
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A black-and-white photograph of a very good boy waiting patiently in the back of a pickup truck.
Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Whoza Good Boy edition.
Here's me, toting groceries, spotting this good boy. I reach into my jeans pocket, slide the camera out, turn it on, take the shot, slide it back in. Didn't break stride.
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People walking in a skywalk system that passes between two buildings.
The local skywalk generally takes pedestrians from one building to another, but sometimes it passes between two existing buildings.
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A black-and-white photograph of a man dressed for cold weather walking into a patch of late afternoon sunlight.
All it takes to make me happy is somebody walking into a patch of late afternoon sunlight.
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A chrome helix in an urban recreation area.
Playground equipment and/or public art.
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A tree. The tree's shadow on a brick wall. The absolute delight in knowing that packets of light from the sun raced 93 million miles to the Earth at 186,000 miles per second just to cast a shadow of a tree.
"What are you looking at?"
"Solar radiation in the form of heat and light traveled 93 million miles at 186,000 miles per second to bang into that tree and create that shadow. It deserves some attention."
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