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A Sam in Motion
@asaminmotion.bsky.social
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He/Him. Motorcycle mechanic who spends too much on film & fancy markers. More of my art available at: samwanous.com
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Can't wait to go on a warm weather photo-walk again.

Hoping to do some group walks this year, so Dc area pals interested LMK.

#believeinfilm #35mm #filmisnotdead
Georgetown Rowhouses bask in the sun off the P street off ramp for Rock Creek Parkway. A person on a bicycle cruises through an otherwise empty intersection in the foreground. A small sliver of Rose Park is visable on the left side of the frame
February 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Monochrome Monday:

I don't normally shoot 400 speed film. But when I do, I try to catch something in motion.....

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kentmere Pan400
🧪 HC-110 [Dillution B]

#believeinfilm #35mm #ilford
A dish-shaped water fountain in front of a building with large letters saying "The Hotel" atop its door
February 16, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Slide Film Sunday:

A view of Postal Service HQ, another part of the sprwaling L'Enfant plaza complex.

It's time to do more slide developing & experimenting now that it's thawing out here!

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Ektachrome

#believeinfilm #35mm #slidefilm
Looking down 7th St SW at the buildings of L'enfant plaza. The stoplights were green while I opened the shutter
February 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Something Red.

The Yamaha Radian is an in-betweener. It has the 4 cyl high revving architecture of a modern sport bike while being air-cooled and upright. Pleasant to drive, but hard to tune.

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Fuji F-64D

#believeinfilm #35mm #motosky #yamaha
A red Yamaha Radian motorcycle sits parked under a tree whose leaves have turned red, next to a red shrub. In the background are large oil tanks. The bike's air fiter also fell out taking the photo.
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Bridge Over Troubled Freeway

Life's gotten in the way of photo-walks. Looking back at some past walks for inspiration

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Vison3 250D

#believeinfilm #35mm
A walking/biking trail curves to go over a highway. The trees around it are a wonderful orange
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Anyone else a winter rider? Excited for weather like this to come back?

📌 Rock Creek Parkway last fall

#motosky #35mm #believeinfilm
Two harley davidson motorcycles turn off Rock Creek parkway in Washington DC. Beautiful fall colors surround the scene
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Monochrome Monday:

I picked up a Green Filter to do trichromes with and it's quickly becoming one of my favorites for B&W photography as well. Yellow is more common and I'll have to try that out sometime too, but for now I'm enjoying this look.

📌 Logan Cir
🎞 Kentmere 100

#believeinfilm #35mm
A photo of the statue in the center of Logan Circle park in Washington, Dc. Taken after our blizzard, the snow from which is hanging around much longer than usual.
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Slide Film Sunday:

The space between... another angle of the Forrestal building.

L'Enfant Plaza may be a concrete landscape, but at least it's pedestrian friendly.

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Ektachrome
🧪 HC-110 & ECN-2

#slidefilm #believeinfilm #35mm
A multi-level skyway between two buildings. A streetlight with globes is in the foreground.
February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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One stop vice shop.

This is one of my favorite photos recently. I love the sharpness, contrast, and how it's a stylized frame from such a quotidian experience.

The bent pole supporting the roof overhang is a nice touch.

#believeinfilm #35mm

📷 Panasonic C-D535af
🎞 Ilford Pan F 50
🧪 HC-110
A car with a dent is parked outside a liquor store with an attached bar/lottery parlor. Large ads show off various products and their prices
February 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Logistical giants basking in the sun.

One of the hidden suprises of the roll was how good this throw away shot I took from the passenger seat on the way to our photo-walk turned out.

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Vison3 250D

#believeinfilm #35mm
Several semi trucks are parked in a line in a parking lot. In the foreground the tinted window of a car slightly obscures the Lincoln Town Car pulling up next to us
February 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Back at the Trichrome game!

#trichrometuesday has a snowy theme this week. A snapshot of the fancy Logan Cir homes in the deep freeze.

Not to toot my own horn, but I did this one without a tripod.

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kentmere 100
🧪 HC-110 Dillution B 5min

#believeinfilm #35mm
A trichromatic color photo of rowhouses flanking Logan Cir in dc from inside the roundabout. A lot of snow covers the foreground
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Monochrome Monday:

With piles of snow everywhere, we had to stay entertained somehow...

This was my first time pushing Ilford Pan F 50 to ISO 100 to use in my new point & shoot. Since it only shoots 100 & 400 speed film

📷 Panasonic C-D535af
🧪 HC-110 [1:79] 11.5min

#believeinfilm #35mm #ilford
A Honda CRV is parked with one wheel on top of a pile of iced over snow. Doing soft roader things. The car is covered in salt/ road grime from the week.
February 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Slide Film Sunday:

Some street art around L'Enfant plaza. I do love how these colors were rendered on Ektachrome. Unfortunately, my scanner gives the highlights a slight blue hue. It's growing on me though

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Ektachrome
🧪 HC-110 & ECN-2

#believeinfilm #35mm #slidefilm
Art along the sidewalk that warms up an otherwise rather cold landscape of concrete & asphalt. The concrete buildings of L'enfant plaza tower in the background
February 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Not my clearest picture ever, but I love the colors. Walked past this street Monday and it certainly looks different this week!

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Vison3 250D

#believeinfilm #35mm #kodak
A Street lined with yellow trees and small whisps of fallen leaves. Cars are parked on either side. It has some intense one-point perspective lines
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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I'd like to hang up on this weather!

Love walking by this payphone in Mount Pleasant. There's so much cool electromechanical tech that used to make these work I think about whenever I see one.

📷 Panasonic C-D535af
🎞 Fuji 200

#believeinfilm #35mm
A payphone in front of a drycleaners accumulates snow along with the rest of the neighborhood. People are out walking in the falling snow
January 29, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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We're still digging out of the snow. Maybe this lil guy can help.

Carspotting in Logan Cir, Monday.

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kentmere Pan100
🧪 HC-110 [Dillution B] 22° 5.75min

#believeinfilm #35mm #fridayfavourites #monochrome
A jeep wrangler with a star stenciled on the side and a snowplow hanging off the front goes through an intersection. A ford bronco and the fancy homes of logan circle are in the background
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Making the best of the snow.

Was nice to see people out sledding in the park. Also time to try out my new ebay find Panasonic C-D535af, I was a little sad the "panorama" mode was just curtains that make the exposure shorter/wider, but it is roughly aspect ratio of a phone.

#believeinfilm #35mm
A "panoramic" shot of people sledding down the snow covered stairs in MalcomX Park in NW Washington, DC
January 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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The Day After the big Snowstorm.

The city was hit hard by the winter storm. This car covered in snow kind of sums up how we feel right now. Hoping for a warm up soon. I miss my routine.

📷 Panasonic C-D535af
🎞 Fuji 200

#believeinfilm #35mm #filmphotography
A Crown Victoria is covered in snow and have snow piled up to almost its windows by the snow plow. Though the road itself is clear, everything surrounding it has deep snow visable
January 27, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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Slide Film Sunday:

Highlighting some of the architecture in danger of being torn down. Though brutalism may not be everyone's favorite aesthetic. This building, HUD's HQ, is a monument to a time when government tried to make people's material circumstances better

#believeinfilm #35mm #slidefilm
A photo of the Robert C Weaver building in L'enfant plaza, Washington. The building is a swooping wing of concrete with square windows, even the guard hut at the parking lot is concrete and geometric. The building contains the headquarters of the Housing & Urban Development Agency. The photo was taken on Kodak Ektachrome & devloped at home
January 25, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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My favorite fall picture from the roll.

And since I appreciate @peterdurst.bsky.social bringing up a conversation about the excess of hashtags on photographysky, this one won't have any. As someone who also is frustrated/confused by online trends its good to feel heard once in a while.
A picture of the great Rock Creek car hole. Two bridges, one for walking/biking and another for cars converge at a tunnel through a hill in the park. That hill is covered in trees many of which were displaying beautiful fall colors
January 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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A snapshot from a final test-ride. My favorite fringe benefit of my job.

These Triumph Thunderbirds fascinate me, a product of the company coming back from bankruptcy. I've torn down the engine on one and there are many cool design ideas in there.

🎞 Fuji F-64D

#motosky #believeinfilm #35mm
A red motorcycle is parked in front of a church with beautiful fall color leaves in the background. My backpack is also visable in the frame, that was intentional...
January 22, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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This is the Sun.

No, really. It's part of an art installation "planet walk" where there are posts indicating the different planets the same [scaled down] distance from this sun the planet would be from the actual sun.

[Left] higher f8 warmer
[Right] f2.8 1/1000 shutter

#believeinfilm #35mm
A picture of the sculpture representation of the sun along a walking/biking trail in Maryland. F8 aperture, probably 1/60sec shutter speed Another picture of the sculpture representation of the sun, this one was taken at f2.8 and a shutter speed of 1/1000sec and is much bluer than the other. The metal, looks more realistic while the background is more blue-hued
January 21, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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Love capturing electrical infrastructure out in the wild. I enjoy how they're lined up to the horizon line. The fall colors are nice too, I miss them....

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #35mm #kodak

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Vison3 250D
🧪 ECN-2
Grasses in the foreground give way to a line of high voltage power transmission lines which keep going to the horizon. Flanked by trees with leaves changing colors
January 20, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Monochrome Monday:

A visit to the National Katyn Monument in Baltimore. An informative site with a nice monument anchors the block.

#believeinfilm #35mm #ilford

🎞 Kentmere Pan400
🧪 HC-110 [Dillution B]
In the middle of a traffic circle, stands a monument to the Katyn massacre in Poland. Artwork in the sculpture depicts Polish soldiers. The monument is surrounded by buildings
January 19, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Slide Film Sunday:

Stumbled upon a free art show/mkt in Annapolis. Lots of great inspiration inside, one of my favorite things to discover out & about.

#believeinfilm #35mm #shotonfilm #kodak #slidefilm #filmphotography

📷 Praktica LB2
🎞 Kodak Ektachrome
🧪 HC-110 & ECN-2
The entrance to an art gallery which was neatly tucked in between houses. Easy to miss but inviting to those who did a double take
January 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM