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Isaac Baumann
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📈 and 🐈 | Econ PhD student at UIC

Formerly: data stuff at UW-Madison, the mouse house, and CNN; SDSU and Mizzou alum
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If I didn’t already like my header photo I think I’d use this lede from my hometown newspaper in an article about my high school quiz bowl team circa 2010 instead
News Tribune Isaac Baumann may run cross country, but just because he’s an athlete doesn’t mean he’s not intelligent, too.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Suddenly, snow
University Hall at UIC against a grey sky filled with snow
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Who decided this was a good idea
A screenshot of an Outlook calendar. The time cells are offset by one hour between Sunday November 2 and Monday November 3 because of the daylight savings time change.
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A cat who is a dragon! A cat who is a dragon but this time looking at the camera!
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Me after not caring about Mizzou football in at least a decade
Don Corleone saying “look how they massacred my big rock M”
October 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Millennium Park a few nights ago
A semicircle of columns flood lit in yellow with skyscrapers in the background The bean in front of tall buildings
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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One year of this relentless ball of energy
A one eyed tortie on top of a cat tree
October 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Made it to four gallons total as a blood donor today
A 4 gallon blood donor pin Snoopy eating cookies with the text “give blood get cookies”
October 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Now we tune into today’s installment of Seen From The Metra Train
A car at a railroad crossing that’s had the crossing bar come down on top of it
September 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Madison, summer

#35mm #filmphotography
The Wisconsin state capitol framed by tree silhouettes A mural on a building with a sandhill crane and a butterfly on a white, blue, and yellow pattern. Two concrete and brick buildings are in the foreground on either side of the building with the mural. An art deco office building in front of a lake The front of the Orpheum theater with a marquee sign reading “stay cool Madison.” A skateboarder skates by on the street in front of the theater.
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Baileys harbor range lights, Door County WI

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A short, very angular red and white lighthouse in between trees under a cloudy sky The front of an old white and red house with. A walkway leads to the front door with a flagpole on the left flying a US flag. On the top of the house is a window with a light. A view looking down a wooden boardwalk from the top of the white and red house. The boardwalk is surrounded by trees on either side. At the end of the boardwalk is the small lighthouse.
September 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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New camera day
#filmphotography
A Nikon N90s camera
September 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Pumpkin spice flavored cheese wedges, on sale for 20% off The Jeff Goldblum “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should” scene
September 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I'm a few hours late, but tonight's Monday Night Football jet flyover brought to you by Madison, WI
A map showing an ADS-B flight path for a jet flying from Madison, WI, to Chicago, IL, and then returning to Madison, WI
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I don’t normally do caturday posts but she finally chilled out after hours of terror
A sleepy cat in the top bucket of a cat tree The same cat stretching her paw out
August 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The Ice Age Trail near Lake Wisconsin, including a fun mess-up where the film didn’t advance correctly on a shot

#filmphotography #35mm
A yellow bench and a shelter made of sticks leaning against a tree in a wooded area. The right part of the frame is obscured by a white stripe where the film didn’t advance correctly. A lone tree in a field with a trail underneath it with a blue sky and tall clouds in the background
August 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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EAA museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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An old red fuel pump with a sign on the top with a winged A that says “FLYING SUPER EXTRA.” An old red and white waypoint beacon is behind the pump. A red and white Glasair GlaStar airplane on a grassy field. A hangar signed “EAGLE HANGAR” is in the background overlooking the plane’s wings. A semi-circular white hangar signed “PIETENPOL FIELD” with a propeller plane inside A red and white GlaStar plane landing on a grassy field in front of white hangar doors
August 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I think this for-parts camera… just works? Film advances and rewinds correctly. Shot a cheap roll of expired Kodak Max 400 to test it out and it turned out ~aesthetic~ and underexposed but mostly ok. Need to test the light meter some more but I think maybe the repair camera is actually a replacement
A field of black-eyed Susans in front of some trees; the left half of the flowers are bright yellow and the right half are darker and orange. One yellow flower stands taller than the rest in the center. A tiger lily Purple flowers Green tomatoes on the vine
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Some recent shots. Been spending some time at Olbrich Botanical Garden and the west side ag research station lately.

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A dragonfly perched on a lotus bud above a shallow pond with lilly pads and a bright orange lotus flower A bee pollinating a bunch of small pink flowers A frog sitting on a lily pad near a bright orange lotus flower A bumblebee and a butterfly on yellow flowers
August 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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movie night
the pavilion in millennium park in Chicago with a movie screen the Grand Budapest Hotel on a movie screen at the pavilion at millennium park
July 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Got messed up like Robert Pattinson today
A fresnel lens with a US lighthouse service uniform in the background
July 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Going out for a spin for the first time in years
A speed skate in front of an ice rink
July 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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uh, lol
A NYT Instagram post titled “Renters Are Taking Over the Suburbs.” The top three listed “suburbs” with the highest share of renters are military bases.
July 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Doing Fourth of July the right way with summer league softball
A crowd watching a softball game
July 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Canada Day and Memorial Day (NL), St. John's, 2018
Purple and red wreaths underneath a war memorial The narrows inlet into St. John's harbor Two red chairs on rocky ground overlooking the Atlantic
July 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM