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Duncan Petrie
@duncanpetrie.com
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24 y/o photographer, writer, web dev. From Milwaukee, now in London.

I take pictures and put them on https://duncanpetrie.com
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A wall in two lights #photography #film
The shadow of a street lamp on a cinder block wall. The edge of the shadow is greenish and fuzzy. The shadow of shrubbery on a cinder block wall. A drainpipe cuts the frame, the same color as the shadow
May 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This is the sea as seen from the Great western railway service to. penzance. calling at. newton abbot. totnes. plymouth. liskeard. bodmin parkway. par. st austell. truro. redruth. st erth and. penzance. This train has. eight. coaches

#photography #film
An analog photograph of the English Channel as seen from the train. The horizon is sharp but the waves are blurred by the speed of the train. The sea is dark, scattered by rain and cloud-broken light.
May 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Good talk good book! (I assume, I’ve read about 10 pages)
Photo of Robert Macfarlane and Horatio Clare on stage at the book launch of “Is a River Alive?” They are very far away because Duncan (photographer) is sitting in the nosebleeds Photo of the cover of Robert Macfarlane’s new book, “Is a River Alive?”
May 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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And the last talk, by @katiefenn.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I only managed to take a photo of the first talk, by @lolaodelola.bsky.social
In a shocking twist of dramatic irony, Duncan finds himself writing alt text about a photograph of a slide about alt text. Ekphrastic Poetry as Alt Text, reads the slide. Alt text can be vivid, dramatic, a verbal as well as emotional representation of a visual work.
May 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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And this is where that water is running.
Analog black and white photograph of bare, spindly trees leaning over a fast, shallow stream in the New Forest National Park in the UK.
April 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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This is what the water in the new forest looks like.
Analog black and white photograph of the reflection of bare, spindly trees on the surface of a fast, shallow stream in the New Forest National Park in the UK.
April 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Except for this one. This one’s a little wonky.
Horizontally blurred photograph of the North Atlantic at dusk.
April 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Did some horizon blurs for the first time in a while and was surprised be how even they are. On my digital camera, I used to have to take loads to get a few good ones, but all three of them on this roll of film turned out pretty ok I think
Horizontally blurred photograph of the North Atlantic at dusk.
April 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Scans came back! Horizon in Falmouth, Cornwall.

#film #photography
Horizontally blurred photograph of the North Atlantic at dusk.
April 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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First frame of a new roll of film. I climbed out my window to take the throwaway shots and wound up with this. I know it’s cliche to keep the burn line but I like that the color of it matches the color of the chimneys

#photography #film
Analog photograph, half cut-off by burn line, of eleven chimneys in front of a big blue sky
April 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Another cmyk screenprint, this time of a photograph I took at Aldwick Bay, near Bognor Regis. Those three green clumps are sea kale. Whenever I tell anyone I went to Bognor Regis they look concerned and ask me why, but I thought it was nice

#cmyk #photography #screenprinting #bognor #westsussex
A cmyk screenprint of a photograph of a pebble beach. There are three tufts of sea kale growing on the otherwise empty beach. The pebbles are yellow-orange and the sea kale is green and the sea is green and the sky is blue and flecked with clouds.
March 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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This is a place called Harrington Beach. I think I could have framed the first one a little wider. I’m trying to learn to give my photos more room to breathe - my inclination is always to shoot as tight as possible, but I often end up regretting it

#photography #wisconsin
Reflection of a tree in the glass of a map case, at Harrington Beach State Park in Wisconsin. Little footprints across the frozen, snow-covered quarry lake at Harrington Beach State Park in Wisconsin.
January 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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And this is the original digital photograph. I think the prints look better! Also, taking pictures on a bicycle is hard
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Here are some of the more interesting variations: a problem with the squeegee made the first one look a bit like a film still, the magenta was too thick in the second one, and the third one is only halfway done
12x8in cmyk screenprint of a photograph taken on a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin. Zoom in for halftone pattern! 12x8in cmyk screenprint of a photograph taken on a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin. Magenta layer is too dark and prematurely drying in this one. 12x8in cmyk screenprint (cyan and magenta layers only) of a photograph taken on a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin.
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This is what the prints look like in person:
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Cmyk! This is a screenprint I made last week of an old photograph of mine. I took it in 2019 while riding a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin

#cmyk #photography #screenprinting
12x8in cmyk screenprint of a photograph taken on a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin. Zoom in for halftone pattern!
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Here are some things that I saw by the beach
Wooden posts in the sand on a Lake Michigan beach in January. Frozen sand, pockmarked by old footsteps, on a subzero day at Kohler Andrae State Park in Wisconsin. A little bird, shooting across the gloaming sky.
January 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This is the first ‘sunrise’ of 2025, and some lights that I saw on the walk to it.

#photography #horizon #milwaukee
Horizontally blurred photograph (1/40th sec) of Lake Michigan at dawn on January 1st, 2025, a sheet of lame boring clouds blocking the sun. Christmas lights on the eaves of the neighbour’s house, in the hour before dawn on January 1st, 2025. Christmas lights on a garage before dawn on January 1st, 2025. A glowing star lamp in a window before dawn on January 1st, 2025.
January 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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These are the bluest skies I have. They’re from my photobook “To Pigeon-Fill the Sky”, which is about creativity (good), pigeons (good), and AI (bad)

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#photography #landscape #sky #london #photobook
A very blue sky between two trees. Regents Park, London. A very blue sky behind a warning sign on Pagham Beach, West Sussex. A very blue sky behind two chimneys and the top of a tree in London. A very blue sky behind a tree and the glaring sun, in North London.
January 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM