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Joe’s Photos
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Sharing photos and other art I’ve made. Enjoy.
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Bellevoir historic home (on grounds now used by the Free Public Library of Louisville, Kentucky), January 2026
Monochrome photograph. Historic home in mid-19th Century Italianate beaux arts architectural style. Strong exterior symmetry, arched windows, and wrought-iron balconies and railings. Evergreen trees flank the house on either side, and bare winter branches of hardwoods rise behind it. Visible sliver of lawn is close-cropped winter grass.
January 3, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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In Chicago. December 2025. #chicago #cities #giordanosrestaurant #skyscrapers #signage #verticalimage
Color photo. Nighttime. Looking up at the marquee sign for Giordano’s restaurant in Chicago. The word GIORDANO’S is arranged vertically in a blocky serif typeface in red neon. The red of the letters is reflected heavily on the wall to which the sign is attached at frame right. Skyscrapers loom over the sign and the viewer. A small portion of sky is visible between the buildings.
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Chicago. Eminently photographable. December 2025.
Black and white photo. Skyscrapers in modern styles, lining a city street. Parking signs and theatre marquees are visible. Black and white photo. Skyscrapers in modern styles, including two identical cylindrical buildings at frame right. Black and white photo. A night-time image of an urban street, with streetlights, cars, pedestrians, and tall buildings, including a lighted classical structure in the center of the frame.
January 3, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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Street art, Rome, Italy

#streetart #graffiti #walls #rome #italy
Color photo of an exterior wall and door in Rome, Italy, covered in graffiti. Above the door is a sunburst window with iron bars and a chain connected to the lowest bar (horizontal). Color photo of an exterior wall in Rome, Italy, bearing graffiti in green ALL CAPS that reads, “Vini Vidi Vice.”
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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Street art, Rome, Italy

#streetart #graffiti #walls #rome #italy
Color photo of a brown door in Rome, Italy, covered in graffiti. No legible words. Graffiti colors are orange, yellow, green, and white. Color photo of an exterior wall in Rome, Italy, covered in graffiti. Prominently displayed are a line drawing in black of a large face with vampire fangs and a bright blue cloud shape bearing with the letters TFM in black.
January 2, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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Street art, Rome, Italy

#streetart #graffiti #walls #rome #italy
Color photo of a brown door covered in graffiti. The word BORED, in neon green paint, is prominent in the center of the door. Color photo of an exterior wall in Rome, Italy, covered in graffiti. Prominently situated are a stylized image of a koi fish, a seated nude woman, and a peeling flyer bearing the Eye of Horus.
January 2, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Carrots, Findlay Market, Cincinnati, Ohio. December 2025. #monochrome #blackandwhite #black&white #carrots #vegetables #produce #rootvegetables #markets #farmersmarkets #locallygrown #birdseyeview #seenfromabovd
Monochrome photo of a box of carrots at a farmers market. The carrots are standing on their ends and tips and are at many angles. They look as if they are pointing deliberately at or near the viewer. The carrots are in varying shades, from dark to light.
January 1, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Evening, Ludlow Avenue at Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. December 2025.
Monochrome photo depicts intersection of two streets in a neighborhood small-business district. The viewer faces (from a sidewalk corner) across to an adjacent corner. The stripes of the connecting crosswalk are visible, and one of the intersecting streets stretches away into distance. It is evening and overcast. Oncoming traffic approaches the intersection with headlights on. The windows of shops along the street are lighted. Above the nearest shop, at frame right, are the words Clifton Florist.
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Stairwell. Cincinnati, Ohio, December 2025.
Black and white photo of a residential stairwell. Perspective is from second floor looking down. Two landings are visible where the stairs make 90 degree turns; each landing touches an exterior wall and has an opaque window. There are wooden bannisters. A slightly curved ceiling follows the slope and turns of the stairs. Shadows of rails and spindles show on the wall.
December 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Louisville, Kentucky. April 2023.
Color photo. Skyline of downtown Louisville against a clear blue sky, viewed across a still, flat section of the Ohio River. The skyline is reflected on the water’s surface. In the foreground, at lower left, a starling has just taken off from the ground and, with wings spread, flies straight up.
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Phaeton carriage at Monticello. Charlottesville, Virginia, January 2021.
Monochrome photo of an early-1800s carriage parked in a carriage house. The carriage faces the camera. The wall behind the camera is irregular stone and mortar. The wall at right is horizontal wooden planks of varying shades; the lines create a strong sense of depth. At left, several square wooden posts rise toward the ceiling and separate the space in which the carriage sits from the next space.
December 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Blood orange, April 2020. #fruit #citrus #orange #crosssection
Color photo. A cross-section of a blood orange in closeup. Flesh of the orange sections and, at the bottom of the image, a bit of the circle of rind are visible. Colors range from yellow-orange to dark maroon.
December 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Jade plant in flower, May 2019. #plants #flowers #gardening #yellow
Color image. A dark green jade plant with profuse yellow star-shaped blooms trails over the side of a maroon patio container, whose exterior is decorated with parallel ridges. The lower right corner of the image shows a section of the patio’s floor of exposed aggregate.
December 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Biscuits (American style). December 2025. #bakedgoods #rolls #americanfood #food #baking #culinary
Color photo. Three orderly rows of freshly baked biscuits, seven per row, shot from overhead. Biscuits are lightly browned, with an occasional dusting of flour.
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Shed. Ringgold, Georgia, 2025. #photoart #digitallymodified #barns #sheds #outbuildings #oldstructures #monochrome
Monochrome image of a ramshackle equipment barn in a rural setting. High grasses and trees (leafless because it’s winter) surround the structure. Photo has been digitally altered for a sepia tone and a sketched appearance.
December 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Passing by Nashville on I-65 North, December 2025
Color image of the skyline of Nashville, Tennessee, viewed from the highway. Digitally altered photo. Blackpoint has been adjusted so that the buildings and structures are in black, gray, and pale blue. The sky above is cloudy, in pale gray and blue with rosy areas.
December 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Diptych: My neighbor’s Siberian iris. #flowers #irises #purple #photoart #gardenart
Color photo of iris stalks and flowers, digitally altered for the appearance of acrylic paint. Strong vertical, with emphasis on stalks. Stalks are green, blue, and yellow. Blooms are purple. Most of the blooms bleed out of the image area at the top, but one bloom is lower and center right and can be seen in its entirety. Its stalk curves slightly to the right, and the bloom faces and almost touches the right. The image is the left-side panel of the diptych. Color photo of iris stalks and flowers, digitally altered for the appearance of acrylic paint. Strong vertical, with emphasis on stalks. Stalks are green, blue, and yellow. Blooms are purple. Most of the blooms bleed out of the image area at the top, but one bloom is lower and center left and can be seen in its entirety. The image is the right-side panel of the diptych.
December 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Waiting in the Apple Barrel Bar for a table at Adolfo’s, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2019. Digitally altered photo. #adolfos #neworleans #nola #bars #restaurants #bands
Color photo altered digitally to look like a painting shows crowd in a small bar, eating, drinking, and listening to a cover band. Figures are blocky; dominate colors are red and black.
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Clover and Kentucky bluegrass. May 2019
Color image of clover and Kentucky bluegrass growing together. Grass is tall and in full flower. Image tone is strong green.
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Family interment vaults, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2019.
Black and white image of interment vaults in a New Orleans cemetery, with family names showing on the most prominent. At front center, a monument in the form of a limbless tree trunk bearing the seal of the Woodmen of the World organization leans against a shelf or seat.
December 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Altar at a family interment vault, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2019.
Black and white image shows a cement or marble bench seat at an altar in a cemetery. The structure is old and crumbling, with large pieces of fallen stone leaning against the altar wall. A string of black prayer beads stretches along the bench seat. A few opportunistic plants grow from crevices.
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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O’Hare airport, December 2025.
Black and white image of holiday garlands and ribbons hung from the arched ceiling of a concourse at O’Hare airport in Chicago. Strong symmetry in perspective, with multiple identical iterations of garland and arches showing in diminishing size as distance increases from viewer. Strong natural lines in structure reach to an apparent central point near the bottom center of the frame.
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Suspended globe, O’Hare Airport, Chicago, December 2025.
Black and white image of a large wire globe (that is, Earth) suspended above a concourse at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Silhouettes of continents are attached to the globe’s exterior. White struts and wall panels of the concourse are the prominent background of the photo.
December 21, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Magnolia leaves and holly berries. December 2025.
Digitally altered photo (Black and white tool and Retrolux filter applied in Snapseed, giving the image a red-brown tone). A wreath of holly berries and magnolia leaves rests on a small, round, wooden tabletop; a white taper candle rises from a holder on the center of the wreath. The image is cropped so that only half the wreath is visible. In the left half of the image, an unidentified piece of wooden furniture shows.
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Michigan Avenue @ East Chicago Avenue, December 2025.
Color photo. Dramatic cool filter. Cold, overcast day; crowd waiting for crossing signal, at the intersection of Michigan and Chicago Avenues in downtown Chicago; snowy slush in gutters; urban variety of people in coats and caps, looking at phones, carrying bags and packages; a man in a sweater carries a bouquet; a woman in sunglasses and a long black coat and clunky boots stands front and center and talks on phone. No one sees the camera.
December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM