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Dave Merrill
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Fine art photographer, writer
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#filmphotography
#mediumformat
May 30, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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"The market always gives consumers the most options!"

Meanwhile, the options:
April 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Lost track of this, but going for a second wind: today's #UUlent word is #kindness.

#filmphotography
#mediumformat
April 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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#urbangaze Thursday

#blackandwhitephotography
#architecturalphotography
#photography #city #buildings #germany #classicmono #photographersofbluesky
April 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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#cowtools #ghibli #farside #hayaomiyazaki #garylarson #ai
March 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Same sculpture, two photos, two #UUlent words: #bravery and #weeping. These are outside a VA hospital
#filmphotography
#mediumformat
Statue of a soldier dragging a wounded friend Statue of a soldier dragging a wounded friend
March 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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This #UUlent twofer comes from a tremendous bronze statue memorializing the Battle of Midway, and you can see it at Chicago Midway. The words are #bravery and #dignity
March 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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This is the photo that immediately came to mind for the #UUlent word of the day, #liberation. I can't exactly tell you why though
#filmphotography
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Though my first thought was fabric or a coiled steel cable, the controlled weaving chaos of nature well represents the #UUlent word of the day, #interdependence

#filmphotography
A photograph of a chain link fence with privacy weaving and vines through it
March 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Our word, today, is Vulnerable. We invite you to share a picture, song, reflection or anything that calls your soul to reflect on it. 💗
March 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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The #UUlent word is #blessed. Loaded word? Maybe. I does mean a lot of things. If you can see what you have rather than what you don't -- that's a blessing

#filmphotography #mediumformat
March 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Here's one of my dollar store death celebration photos

Still working the kinks out, but you get the idea
March 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom" -Friedrich Schiller

#UUlent word of the day, #grace
🎞️Kodak TMAX 400
📷 Mamiya RB67
#filmphotography
March 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I'm not going to say this place is haunted--just kidding, it's definitely haunted.

Fitting for the #UUlent word of the day, #fear

🎞️ Kodak TMAX 400
📷 Mamiya RB67
#filmphotography
Multi-exposure film photo of abandoned townhome
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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This regular stop on the Underground Railroad is now home to the Kelton House Museum and Garden. Fitting for the #UUlent word of the day, #resistance

Multi-exposure on Kodak TMAX 400
📷 RB67
#filmphotography #mediumformat
Multi-exposure film photograph of the Kelton House Museum and Garden
March 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Today's #UUlent word is #equity
March 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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The #UUlent word today is #consent

What I'm finding interesting about this exercise is that it's having me consider the meanings of words as much as how to photograph them.
#photography
March 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Seems maybe a little too convenient that the #UUlent word for today is #change and yesterday during the lunar eclipse the moon turned red, but I guess I'm not going to complain too much 😅

#photography
#eclipse
#bloodmoon
Image of full lunar eclipse / "blood moon" over tree
March 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I'm not sure how I would photograph humility, but I think my furry friend embodies many of the best qualities. She's always interested in helping out, has tremendous empathy, and isn't self conscious or prideful
#UUlent
#humility
March 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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The #UUlent word today is #faith.

I have faith the sun will rise, spring will come, and flowers will bloom. I have faith in renewal.

#filmphotography
March 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The #UUlent word today is #curiosity and well, I feel like I got stuck and am cheating a little bit 😂
#photography
#oneorangebraincell
March 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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This #UUlent is for #deconstruction

And because why not #trichrome it while I'm at it?

#filmphotography
March 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Vignettes of Ipswich
The back of Burton. Son & Sanders ltd

#photography
A straight-on, eye-level shot captures a row of derelict, boarded-up buildings against a backdrop of modern urban architecture. The buildings, worn and weathered, feature boarded windows and doors, crumbling brickwork, and mismatched roofs, creating a stark contrast to the taller, more contemporary structures behind them. Below, a newly painted parking lot with bright white lines and numbered spaces stretches into the foreground, its fresh asphalt juxtaposed with the aged facades. The sky is overcast, casting a muted light over the scene. A yellow crosshatched line runs along the bottom edge, adding a graphic element to the composition.
March 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The #UUlent word today is #love

It's a word we use for so many different things. I think we could easily list more than a dozen meanings. I included a photo of one

#filmphotography
March 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM