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boston biped
always walking always looking
often hiding from the world we've made

++queer is beautiful++

most photos taken w minolta 58mm f1.2 or c-mount lens
all images are mine, except reposts

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nat @dasmoment.bsky.social · May 24
new profile pic is from
a med format film photo i took

part of a series of images of decorated and painted mannequin heads. no one knew exactly where they came from.

the store where they lived has closed, and they've been scattered to the winds. i have 3

#mediumformat #120 #film #photography
medium format film 'scan' (actually a dslr photo of the negative taken with a light box) of a decorated mannequin head. photo taken from below, where the eyes seem to be looking, highlighting the damaged and cracked chin and bright red painted lips, also chipped and damaged. the nose is also chipped. despite it all, the general vibe is defiance and strength.
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i made a print so large that i decided to do a lil video exploration.

the photographer wrote on the back of the small print he made:

street scene
nagasaki japan
march 1946
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
#photography
an american robin sitting on a branch where every berry within reach has been eaten. also, it's enjoying the sunset. birds love to just sit and watch the sun go down. its a thing.
December 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
1) a small farm at the Arlington reservoir
2) early evening view from the bus-stop, waiting for a ride home
~150mm c-mount lens
#photography
solar panels covered in a light snow on the left; an old red barn with white trim on the right. above it all, light winter sky interspersed with the tendrils of a leafless tree 3 peaked roofs like geometric echos obscure a distant power pole, and the evening sky filled with diminishing winter light
December 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
a small farm on the edge of Arlington reservoir
covered in pillowy snow
covered in pellucid light
#photography
an old red tractor limned with snow beside an old gnarled tree. in the foreground, a tilled field is covered in soft snow, and the snow is covered in rolling light and shadow
December 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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snow light snow bright

at Arlington reservoir #photography
snow in the foreground, plastered to the side of a tree; snow in the background, plastered on everything dark image of bright snow lit at a crazy angle by the setting sun dark image of snow at the edge of running water, lit by a single ray of the setting sun endless parallel stripes of blue shadows across the light snow on a frozen reservoir
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
Arlington reservoir yesterday
#cmountlens #photography
a distant winter treeline, some barely visible houses, power poles and in the foreground, a blurry traffic light a thin tree circled by a sinewy vine. a silhouette of a person and their shadow on a bright frozen pond a small red squirrel hurriedly grabs some red berries after a much larger grey squirrel got distracted from the same
December 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
today, a bus to Arlington reservoir
#photography
photo of a hand-strap hanging from a yellow handrail on a city bus. in the background is the bright blurry world through the front window of the bus. a robin witnessing a sunset from a leafless branch festooned with over-ripe berries long parallel shadows across snow on a frozen reservoir a small creek running lightly through a snowy landscape. a super bright red brick building wavers in reflection
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
++things on or near the front porch because its 20 outside++

second edition #photography #cmountlens
bunches of fluffy strings of seeds on tall dry stalks. the one in focus in the middle looks like a cephalopod in profile low shot of an icy stepping stone and two small rocks in a fine layer of icy snow an old weathered watering can in rough scraped yellow paint and rust-red, on a wicker table next to the arm of a white "wicker" chair (its plastic)
December 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
its 20 out so here a couple things from near the front door
#photography
dead frozen bean pods in a cluster of four long yellowgreen frozen leaves with pink stems
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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in amongst the ever increasing photos of children-being-children are the last few attempts of his lingering photographic soul. eventually he was too busy to take photos at all. his work on wheat stem rust probably saved 1000s of lives soo...i guess it's fine.
#photography
negs are from early 50's?
inverted color photo of a black and white negative. a distant weathered cliff above dense pine trees on the far side of a still lake inverted color photo of a black and white negative. a small road runs through super flat fields against a backdrop of distant rocky mountain peaks. inverted color photo of a black and white negative. looking down a wide empty sidewalk at a wide road with distant traffic and a strange brick tower. the shadow of the photographers head at the bottom of the frame is the only sign of life
December 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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negative / positive

he printed 1 of this neg and wrote on the back that the soldiers threw cigarettes on the quay to watch the fights. and a word he used tells me he was in China.

these are 2 different pictures i took of the negative: one close-up section, and one of the full negative
#photography
direct photo of a section of old negative. ghostly figures in a triangular crowd, scuffling. inverted photo of a section of an old negative. a crowd of Chinese workers hurriedly gather up... something from the ground (i know from the photographers notes that its loose cigarettes) inverted photo of an old negative. a crowd of Chinese workers hurriedly gather up... something from the ground (i know from the photographers notes that its loose cigarettes)
December 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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and back at home was a girl he married, who had three kids... and one of them had two kids. . . and one of them became my spouse. which is how we've ended up here.
#photography
inverted photo of an old negative. after the war, a very very young woman with a big smile stretches out across a sunlit boulder to feed some snacks to a lil chipmunk. inverted photo of an old negative. portrait of a very young woman in a "black" floral dress (who knows what color it was?) standing outside a simple home and staring down at the camera lens. inverted photo of an old negative. a very young woman in a simple skirt and jacket poses in the sun in front of an open car door. she is not yet married, or at least, not wearing a ring on her left hand...
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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i don't think he was supposed to take this photo. it was extremely underexposed. i overexposed my photo of the negative, and then hugely increased contrast in the deep shadows (curves). i couldn't even tell what the photographic subject was until then.

film negatives are amazing.
#photography
inverted photo of an old negative. an armed (bayonets ready!) regiment of soldiers prepares for a landing. they are all staring straight ahead, faces hidden by their hard helmets. except one, who has turned his head towards the camera for some reason. but even his eyes are obscured by the helmet, refusing to release him from anonymity.
December 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
and then they sailed home.

the ship was the uss comet (ap 166)
#photography
inverted photo of an old negative. a very full transport ship, picture taken looking down at the foredeck and a mess of metal masts. the soldiers are all wearing their best fatigues and bright white cloth hats. inverted photo of an old negative. an accidental double exposure of very happy soldiers returning to port inverted photo of an old negative. photo of a small guide ship leading the massive transport to it's bay. a large banner on the smaller ship reads "WELCOME HOME". the small ships name on the prow reads "SNAFU MARU" inverted photo of an old negative. the negative is showing a lot of decay and fog but in the distance is a massive port that runs farther than the eye can see. on the extreme right can be seen bright white caps of sailors crowding up against the transport ships railing as they arrive home.
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
he had a knack for people. that's him in the back of the rickshaw. he must've set a timer and jumped in for the photo, which probably explains the rickshaw operators bemused expression

inverted color photos of black and white negatives on a light table.
i haven't figured out the format
#photography
a young boy on the verge of bolting seems mesmerized by the photographer. another boy sits on a low stone wall in the background, looking away. a very young american in military dress (the photographer) sits in the back of a rickshaw, whose operator is staring bemusedly at the camera. they are both wearing hats. a photo of a street photographer preparing to take a photo of a person sitting on a low stone wall. his camera is a huge wooden box on a wooden tripod with previously taken photos plastered hastily on the side of the box as advertisement. behind the subject stands another man, holding a black cloth as backdrop for his photo. everyone has stopped to look at the person taking a picture of them except the man waiting to have his picture taken, who continues staring blankly at the box camera. the box cameraman seems to be doffing his hat at the person taking a picture of his setup. a young worker stops and smiles at the camera as he's walking by. in the background another worker seems to be pounding nails into large rough-cut timber. in the background is an enormous pile of rope in front of a wall of sheet-metal siding and a large window covered in chicken wire.
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#photography
b&w. an old car parked at a geyser that's erupting. late day sun backlights the plume from the geyser
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
I'm not sure i even want to scan these properly... the curls and rot are become a piece of the thing itself. if i carefully digitise them, i would sever the aura they've earned...

or I'll just take both paths. prolly both. that'll keep me busy for months
#photography
inverted color photo of an old curled black and white negative. a young woman in an oversized fur coat poses in front of a natural ice sculpture formed around an evergreen tree. photo is from just after ww2, when a distant relative returned to the states.
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
a lil snow can go a long way
#photography
b&w of a messy five section snow ..thing with a dead dried flower shoved in the top of it's head. in the background is a light dusting of snow and a blurry white marble Jesus on a dark wood cross a b&w view looking down the sidewalk after a light snow. a long awning on the right has large white lettering running along it just below the collected show, reading: " SCHOLARS GUEST HOUSE"
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
dasmoment.bsky.social
o my. i found ALL the negatives
there are so many

including nagasaki a few months after the a-bomb. i've already seen handwritten descriptions of the trip, but now i have the negatives.

i have a lot of sorting to do

(these seem to be his first trip after returning home. yosemite?)
#photography
inverted photo of a b&w negative from very long ago.. a man is blurred in the foreground pulling the film on a large format camera on a tripod. a women walks by in the background wearing a black dress and high heels. behind her is a strange scene of geometric ice sculptures that used to be evergreen trees. inverted photo of a b&w negative from very long ago. a large bear stands in the road looking at an old-timey car in the other lane inverted photo of a b&w negative from very long ago. trees completely covered in icy geometry and endless stalactites
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
#photography
"tsingtao china...may 1946" written on the back. two young women are having an animated discussion while walking on a street in front of a dilapidated concrete (?) building and a stunted, leafless tree. staple holes at the top of the photo.
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
i'm working on a new project to keep myself sane

/found photos by a distant relative/dessicated newspapers from the end of WW2/carefully handwritten notes by the same relative, who was on a ship near Japan when the bombs were dropped

the box kept getting passed down w/out opening it. time capsule.
photo of a large cutting mat with four pieces of cardboard taped down, holding down the 4 corners of an old black and white photo. a stack of curled photos sit top right, waiting to be imaged. a photo of the the photo in the previous setup. a large ship sits alone on a flat sea, in front of distant hazy hills. the photo is the first removed from a small booklet; there are staple holes on the left.
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
in a big city
you find little bits of humanity
in the most random places
#photography
b&w pic of the top of a rough concrete wall around a parking lot. a bunch of locks on the right, a hand-made lil plushie doll on left holding a tiny sign that reads "emotional support dumpster fire. It's fine. I'm fine. Everything is fine!"
December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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strange flowers in a yard
#photography
small starfish-like flowers with a hairy white filament scribbling out of each tip close-up of small starfish-like flowers with a hairy white filament scribbling out of each tip
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
dasmoment.bsky.social
this book is amazing. it has so much forgotten/misplaced history that ACTUALLY HAPPENED. studying modernism left me with a bunch of facts that stack-up like loose bricks; this book--and the history it tells--is the mortar, transforming everything else into a coherent whole. and its so well written!
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@jamesmartinsj.bsky.social hello! I was just talking to friends about my book—a history of science and #transgender rights in the shadow of the Nazis. It has been a target; I have been, myself: threats, stalkers, all for sharing an actual history of the #LGBTQ Weimar era. I wrote it for classroom 1/
December 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#photography
are they flowers? seeds? i dont know but the stems are thin, like frozen hairs with a bit of overbright fluff at the tip. soft focus and soft shadows, with one fluffless stem in sharp focus in the center.
December 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM