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MartieW
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The Odd Couple
Nikon F5 + Nikkor 85mm 1.8
Ektar developed in unicolor c41.
#believeinfilm #tree #photoraphy
Two tree trunks nestled side by side; one aged and lichen-covered, the other a youthful, piebald sycamore.
January 31, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Nikon F5 + Nikkor 85mm 1.8
Ektar 100 in Unicolor C41
#believeinfilm #photography
Two barbs of a wire fence seem to be reaching out toward the faint promise of light on this overcast day.
January 29, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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with the night now
as if dropped from
a great height

falling

Alice Oswald, from
Evening Poem
small ornamental star in my garden, green foliage, afternoon sun from yesterday
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Torso
Leica M6 + JCH Streetpan
in Ilford DD-X
#believeinfilm #photography #tree
A twisting tree trunk reminiscent of a Greek sculpture.
January 23, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!

naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
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January 21, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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The amaryllis just opened so I tried to get a nice shot of it in front of the north light. Thought I had it framed just right and then this happened.
#caturday #flowers
A red amaryllis with its proud trumpets reaching to the Four Directions. Behind it, a ginger cat lowers his face below the bloom.
January 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Make a Wish
Nikon N8008 + Kalejnar 100mm
Arista 200 bulk rolled + DD-X 1:4
#believeinfilm #bw, #woods #Sovietlens
A stand of trees pantomimes the end of the alphabet: X, Y, but not Z.
January 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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A promise: samaras in winter
Nikon N8008 + Kalejnar 100mm
Arista 200 bulk loaded + Ilford DD-X
#believeinfilm #winter #sovietlens
A bunch of helicopter seeds biding their time on the ash tree.
January 13, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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My grandson gave me an Argus C3 for Christmas, so I gave it a try. Works great! The viewfinder needs a cleaning and the focus ring some new grease but winter is long and YouTube says I can do it.
Argus C3 + Arista 200 bulk loaded in DD-X 1:4
#bw #believeinfilm #photography
A low white picnic shelter nestles among a stand of walnut trees.
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Squirrel's Nest
Exakta VX 1000 + Vivitar 28mm
Delta 400 in Ilford DD-X
#believeinfilm #bw #winter
A squirrel's nest perched at the top of a river birch in winter.
January 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Physicist/chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett invented non-reflective glass in 1938.

It revolutionized optics & led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. First woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. She was born #OTD in 1898. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
Black-and-white photograph of American physicist and inventor Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), the first woman to receive a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, working in a laboratory. She is shown in profile, intently focused on adjusting a scientific apparatus with her left hand while peering into a large glass tank possibly filled with liquid. She wears cat-eye glasses, a short-sleeved blouse with a scalloped Peter Pan collar and white cuffs, and her hair is neatly styled in soft waves. The background reveals shelves lined with glass bottles and lab equipment, capturing the mid-20th-century research environment at General Electric where she pioneered non-reflective glass coatings and thin-film technology. The image conveys concentration, precision, and pioneering scientific dedication. Side-by-side demonstration of Katharine Burr Blodgett's 1938 invention: non-reflective glass. Left: three colorful yarn balls (red, blue, yellow) are clearly visible through coated glass with no glare. Right: the same balls appear blurred and distorted by reflections through ordinary clear glass. A powerful visual proof of the invisible coating that revolutionized lenses, windows, and screens.
January 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Cloudy with a Chance of Grain
Nikon F5 + Lomo Kino Berlin
#believeinfilm #clouds
Enormous cumulus clouds pile up above the lake. A house on the far shore makes a tiny white accent in the otherwise gray landscape.
December 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Superb photobomb from my collection - no date/info.
Black and white photo of a young white man wearing old fashioned, outdoorsy clothing and holding a rifle. He's standing outside of a house and right behind him in a screen window is an adorable tabby cat making a funny, scrunched up face - I think it was caught mid-meow.
December 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Merry Christmas to all!
#xmas #cat #christmas #photography
Amelia the cat sits calmly at the dinner table and fixes her green eyes on the camera. Her ears have the black tips of a Maine Coon and, although you can't see it here, there are little "snowshoes" of fur between her toes. Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Water : Two Paths
Leica M6 + Slide film E100
processed in Unicolor E6 kit
#believeinfilm #slide #photography #water
Water: On the left, it moves downhill through a metal pipe that crosses the wooded ravine. At right, it follows the path of the same ravine in a serpentine fashion.
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Colorful Trestle
Nikon F5 + slide film E100
processed in Unicolor E6 kit
#believeinfilm #photography #graffiti
A color-saturated take of the graffiti under the railroad trestle as it is fleetingly graced by sunlight.
December 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Butterfly garden
Nikon F5 + slide film E100
Home processed with Unicolor E6 kit
#believeinfilm #photography #polllinator
Backlit image of butterfly garden in late autumn with goldenrod (I believe) seedheads.
December 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Bur Oak dominating the hill
Nikon F5 + E100 + Unicolor E6
Home processed slide film
#believeinfilm #photography #tree
A bur oak tree stretching its round golden canopy in late autumn.
December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Ducks on the lake
Nikon F5 + E100 + Unicolor E6 kit
#believeinfilm #slide
Two ducks placidly paddling on the lake in late autumn. In background, a tall water reservoir and an American flag.
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Joslyn Castle exterior
Nikon F5 + 50mm 1.8 + Portra 800
#believeinfilm #photography #architecture
The stone facade of Joslyn Castle, with its towers and crenellations. In front, lower left, an exterior view of the hemispheric observatory with its onion top style roof.
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Manor tree
Joslyn Castle Carriage House in the distance.
Nikon F5 + 50mm 1.8 + Portra 800
#believeinfilm #photography
The Castle is obstructed here behind a tree with a massive globe-shaped canopy. The crenellated rooftops of the carriage house can be seen behind it.
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Dusty path. Crunchy leaves.
Leica M6 + Light Lens Lab 28mm f2.8
Acros II in DD-X
A path winds through trees on one side and tall grasses on the other. In the distance there is a gabled roof and a flag. The dry textures of fall are on display.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM