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Chad Gayle
@chadgayle.bsky.social
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Science fiction & fantasy author 🚀 NYC photographer 📷 Words in DreamForge, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Inner Worlds, etc. 🌞 SFWA / Codex

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https://chadgayle.com/

Banner: B&W photo of NYC skyline centered on the Chrysler Building (by me)
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"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- here's what you can do about it."

Here's a better take, New Scientist:

"AI may blunt our thinking skills -- another great reason not to use it!"
Screenshot of NewScientist magazine with the headline "AI may blunt our thinking skills -- here's what you can do about it."
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
chadgayle.bsky.social
Polaroid taken last spring of my Yashica LM medium format TLR, modded to allow a light meter to be mounted in front of the viewing hood via cold shoe.

#photography #instant #instantfilm #polaroids #sx70 #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
Color photo of a Yashica LM TLR camera sitting on a green table in front of an out of focus window.
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
chadgayle.bsky.social
Fremen on the A train. #nyc #dune #arrakis
Woman wearing a complicated sand colored outfit of many layers and great puffs of material on a subway train.
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
chadgayle.bsky.social
Jules! #caturday
Orange cat looking off camera.
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
chadgayle.bsky.social
I love the typography and design of this anthology. Graveside did a great job!
Page from the Tiny Terrors anthology from Graveside Press with hanging spider web design.
October 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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My contributor's copy of Tiny Terrors, from @gravesidepress.bsky.social, has arrived!

Includes my story, "What Smiles Are For," which is about a 10 year robot "child" and the "granny" who's trying to kill him.

#horror
Cover of Tiny Terrors anthology shoqing a weird skull under glass surrounded by bones.
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me--last one!

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#largeformatphotography #tiltshift

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Tilt shifted image of the span of the Brooklyn Bridge, in black and white, showing the skyline of Brooklyn in the background, circa 2010.
October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#largeformatphotography

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Brooklyn Bridge pier with Manhattan Bridge in the background, black and white.
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#largeformatphotography

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Wide angle view of the Brooklyn Bridge showing the skyline of Brooklyn in the background, circa 2010.
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#largeformatphotography

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Brooklyn Bridge pier at night, black and white image.
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #35mm

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Man in a suit walking over the Brooklyn Bridge toward Manhattan, showing only his upper body and his back, at sunrise.
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#mediumformat

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Brookyn Bridge in black and white showing the walkway and 3D like suspension cables coming out of left and right sides of frame.
October 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#largeformatphotography

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Brooklyn Bridge silhouette in black and white at dawn.
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead

#mediumformat

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Brooklyn Bridge at night, reflected in the East River, color image. Lights strung across the bridge resemble a jeweled necklace.
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#largeformatphotography #largeformat
Brooklyn Bridge black and white showing walkway laced with spider web like shadows cast by suspension cables.
October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #bw

#largeformatphotography #largeformat

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Brooklyn Bridge covered with snow.
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
chadgayle.bsky.social
Brooklyn Bridge (a thread), image by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead

#mediumformat

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Black and white closeup image of the Brooklyn Bridge.
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
chadgayle.bsky.social
How about a Brooklyn Bridge thread, as a little treat?

All images shot on film between 2009-2016; all images by me.

#photography #NYC #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead

#mediumformat

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Brooklyn Bridge at night from above, in color, looking at Manhattan.
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
chadgayle.bsky.social
Everything sucks, so here's a cat-in-a-box.
One eyed orange tabby car with its head tilted quizzically to one side sits in an upended cardboard box staring at the camera.
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Boots on the Moon."

Infrared film w/ filter, Contax G1

#photography #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #monochrome #bw
High contrast black and white landscape that looks like the surface of the moon. Woman wearing cowboy boots is standing slightly right of center, her face hidden by her hair. Sky is black in the corners, dark gray in the center of the horizon.
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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@thomasha.bsky.social in the house!

"Uncertain Sons" is certainly a beautiful book, can't wait to dig into it.
Book cover of Thomas Ha's collection "Uncertain Sons."
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Saturday evening sunset from Montauk (just a phone pic).
Crepuscular rays shining through gold tinted clouds at sunset, dark foregroynd.
September 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Bought myself a little treat!
Cover of Premee Mohamed's novella The Butcher of the Forest.
September 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The hungrier he is, the more he loves me.
An orange cat named JULES with his paw clutching the edge of a kitchen counter.
August 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It's pretty unique. Has these themed entrances amd movie memoribilia.
Entrance at AMC Lincoln Square made to look like Griman's Chinese Theater, carved dragons on either side of the door with "Majestic" written out above the top. Suggestion of Chinese pagoda roof at top.
July 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM