Bryan Paul Patterson
@lotusapparent.bsky.social
Fine Artist & Photographer
I’m just a neurodivergent weirdo exploring the world through art, botany, and mysticism.
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I’m just a neurodivergent weirdo exploring the world through art, botany, and mysticism.
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X (September), 2025
Fomapan400//#rolleiflex 3.5B
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Renewing my intention once again to leave Instagram and migrate my internet presence somewhere I can still find audience and community. Is Bluesky that place?
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This photo was shot at Deschutes Falls County Park in Yelm, Washington.
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#art #magick
Fomapan400//#rolleiflex 3.5B
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Renewing my intention once again to leave Instagram and migrate my internet presence somewhere I can still find audience and community. Is Bluesky that place?
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This photo was shot at Deschutes Falls County Park in Yelm, Washington.
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#art #magick
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Scrying Painting in progress, 2025
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I found some cheap large canvases a few weeks ago and started some new scrying paintings. Working on this one, I’ve found some sort of psychedelic butterfly entity. 🦋
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#workinprogress #painting #art #outsiderart #scrying #mysticism #dadaism #magick
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I found some cheap large canvases a few weeks ago and started some new scrying paintings. Working on this one, I’ve found some sort of psychedelic butterfly entity. 🦋
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#workinprogress #painting #art #outsiderart #scrying #mysticism #dadaism #magick
October 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Scrying Painting in progress, 2025
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I found some cheap large canvases a few weeks ago and started some new scrying paintings. Working on this one, I’ve found some sort of psychedelic butterfly entity. 🦋
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#workinprogress #painting #art #outsiderart #scrying #mysticism #dadaism #magick
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I found some cheap large canvases a few weeks ago and started some new scrying paintings. Working on this one, I’ve found some sort of psychedelic butterfly entity. 🦋
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#workinprogress #painting #art #outsiderart #scrying #mysticism #dadaism #magick
Work in Progress, 2025
acrylics on canvas
I haven’t been very active on blue sky for a few months, and at any rate, I haven’t been producing a lot of art. Here’s a #workinprogress shot of a painting I’ve been adding layers to for months now. #magick #asemicwriting #art #outsiderart #occultart
acrylics on canvas
I haven’t been very active on blue sky for a few months, and at any rate, I haven’t been producing a lot of art. Here’s a #workinprogress shot of a painting I’ve been adding layers to for months now. #magick #asemicwriting #art #outsiderart #occultart
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Work in Progress, 2025
acrylics on canvas
I haven’t been very active on blue sky for a few months, and at any rate, I haven’t been producing a lot of art. Here’s a #workinprogress shot of a painting I’ve been adding layers to for months now. #magick #asemicwriting #art #outsiderart #occultart
acrylics on canvas
I haven’t been very active on blue sky for a few months, and at any rate, I haven’t been producing a lot of art. Here’s a #workinprogress shot of a painting I’ve been adding layers to for months now. #magick #asemicwriting #art #outsiderart #occultart
Deschutes Falls (Beltane) III, 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
May 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Deschutes Falls (Beltane) III, 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
Deschutes Falls (Beltane), 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
May 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Deschutes Falls (Beltane), 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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This year I celebrated the beginning of summer at my favorite waterfall.
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#filmphotography #photoart #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
Deschutes Falls (Beltane) II, 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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Capturing a shape the river took when the sun struck it one evening.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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Capturing a shape the river took when the sun struck it one evening.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
May 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Deschutes Falls (Beltane) II, 2025
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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Capturing a shape the river took when the sun struck it one evening.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere Pan 400
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Capturing a shape the river took when the sun struck it one evening.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #pagan #sacredspace #bnw #mediumformat
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
Kunty and Paula as Tragedy and Comedy.
5.2025
8x10" ambrotype #wetplatecollodion
#ambrotype #largeformat
5.2025
8x10" ambrotype #wetplatecollodion
#ambrotype #largeformat
May 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Kunty and Paula as Tragedy and Comedy.
5.2025
8x10" ambrotype #wetplatecollodion
#ambrotype #largeformat
5.2025
8x10" ambrotype #wetplatecollodion
#ambrotype #largeformat
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
snout. gouache on paper, 2017
April 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
snout. gouache on paper, 2017
Two Views of Deschutes Falls 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan 400
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A diptych of the vistas at Deschutes Falls in Washington State. It is a very striking, numinous place.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #paganism #sacredspace
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan 400
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A diptych of the vistas at Deschutes Falls in Washington State. It is a very striking, numinous place.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #paganism #sacredspace
April 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Two Views of Deschutes Falls 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan 400
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A diptych of the vistas at Deschutes Falls in Washington State. It is a very striking, numinous place.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #paganism #sacredspace
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan 400
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A diptych of the vistas at Deschutes Falls in Washington State. It is a very striking, numinous place.
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#filmphotography #photography #blackandwhite #art #nature #landscape #istillshootfilm #paganism #sacredspace
The Log Gate, 2024
Fomapan 400 shot on a #Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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Another portrait of a liminal wilderness.
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Archival Giclée prints available🌘
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #film #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #faerie #magick #nature
Fomapan 400 shot on a #Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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Another portrait of a liminal wilderness.
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Archival Giclée prints available🌘
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #film #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #faerie #magick #nature
April 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The Log Gate, 2024
Fomapan 400 shot on a #Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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Another portrait of a liminal wilderness.
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Archival Giclée prints available🌘
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #film #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #faerie #magick #nature
Fomapan 400 shot on a #Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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Another portrait of a liminal wilderness.
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Archival Giclée prints available🌘
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #film #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #faerie #magick #nature
Wreckage II, 2024
Fomapan 400 shot on a Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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I have a habit of stumbling upon wrecked abandoned vehicles on forest roads.
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #vintagecamera #istillshootfilm #film #analog #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #anthropocene
Fomapan 400 shot on a Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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I have a habit of stumbling upon wrecked abandoned vehicles on forest roads.
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #vintagecamera #istillshootfilm #film #analog #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #anthropocene
April 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Wreckage II, 2024
Fomapan 400 shot on a Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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I have a habit of stumbling upon wrecked abandoned vehicles on forest roads.
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #vintagecamera #istillshootfilm #film #analog #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #anthropocene
Fomapan 400 shot on a Rolleiflex 3.5b named Vivian
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I have a habit of stumbling upon wrecked abandoned vehicles on forest roads.
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#art #spiritofplace #filmisnotdead #vintagecamera #istillshootfilm #film #analog #surrealism #blackandwhite #liminalspace #pictorialism #anthropocene
Now that we’re past the Equinox, the wildflowers are celebrating the renewed sunlight and warmth.
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Left to right: Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus); Western Wakerobin (Trillium ovatum); Venus’ Slipper Orchid (Calypso bulbosa); Snow Queen (Veronica regina-nivalis).
#wildflowers
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Left to right: Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus); Western Wakerobin (Trillium ovatum); Venus’ Slipper Orchid (Calypso bulbosa); Snow Queen (Veronica regina-nivalis).
#wildflowers
April 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Now that we’re past the Equinox, the wildflowers are celebrating the renewed sunlight and warmth.
🤘🌞
Left to right: Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus); Western Wakerobin (Trillium ovatum); Venus’ Slipper Orchid (Calypso bulbosa); Snow Queen (Veronica regina-nivalis).
#wildflowers
🤘🌞
Left to right: Western Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus); Western Wakerobin (Trillium ovatum); Venus’ Slipper Orchid (Calypso bulbosa); Snow Queen (Veronica regina-nivalis).
#wildflowers
View from Deschutes Falls, 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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One of most sacred places I’ve found recently.
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#magick #photo #art #filmphotography #waterfall #analog #liminal #landscape #paganism
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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One of most sacred places I’ve found recently.
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#magick #photo #art #filmphotography #waterfall #analog #liminal #landscape #paganism
March 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
View from Deschutes Falls, 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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One of most sacred places I’ve found recently.
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#magick #photo #art #filmphotography #waterfall #analog #liminal #landscape #paganism
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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One of most sacred places I’ve found recently.
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#magick #photo #art #filmphotography #waterfall #analog #liminal #landscape #paganism
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
Posting this before I start hating it with all my soul (sketch for copper engraving)
#traditionalart
#traditionalart
February 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Posting this before I start hating it with all my soul (sketch for copper engraving)
#traditionalart
#traditionalart
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
The Psychonauts Temple
#collage #analogcollage #handmadecollage #cutandpastecollage #collagesky #collageartist #collageart #occultart #chaosmagick
#collage #analogcollage #handmadecollage #cutandpastecollage #collagesky #collageartist #collageart #occultart #chaosmagick
February 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Psychonauts Temple
#collage #analogcollage #handmadecollage #cutandpastecollage #collagesky #collageartist #collageart #occultart #chaosmagick
#collage #analogcollage #handmadecollage #cutandpastecollage #collagesky #collageartist #collageart #occultart #chaosmagick
Shadow Ditch, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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A view from the strange roadsides of Wenas Valley, Wa.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shadow #analog #liminal #landscape #spiritofplace
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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A view from the strange roadsides of Wenas Valley, Wa.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shadow #analog #liminal #landscape #spiritofplace
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Shadow Ditch, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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A view from the strange roadsides of Wenas Valley, Wa.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shadow #analog #liminal #landscape #spiritofplace
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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A view from the strange roadsides of Wenas Valley, Wa.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shadow #analog #liminal #landscape #spiritofplace
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
Red Top Mountain, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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This was taken on a hiking trail near the summit of the range. Overgrown park bulletins were covered in names and initials that had been carved into them.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #travel
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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This was taken on a hiking trail near the summit of the range. Overgrown park bulletins were covered in names and initials that had been carved into them.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #travel
February 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Red Top Mountain, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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This was taken on a hiking trail near the summit of the range. Overgrown park bulletins were covered in names and initials that had been carved into them.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #travel
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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This was taken on a hiking trail near the summit of the range. Overgrown park bulletins were covered in names and initials that had been carved into them.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #travel
In Memory 1, 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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This is a new project I’m just starting. I live in an area where there are roadside memorials everywhere, markers honoring people who died near that spot.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #death
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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This is a new project I’m just starting. I live in an area where there are roadside memorials everywhere, markers honoring people who died near that spot.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #death
February 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
In Memory 1, 2024
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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This is a new project I’m just starting. I live in an area where there are roadside memorials everywhere, markers honoring people who died near that spot.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #death
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Kentmere BW400
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This is a new project I’m just starting. I live in an area where there are roadside memorials everywhere, markers honoring people who died near that spot.
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#photography #photo #art #film #shrine #analog #liminal #landscape #death
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
Columbine
4/2015 13 X 20 inches [33 X 50.8 cm] Graphite on Paper
#sciart #gawoski #pollen #botany #botanical
4/2015 13 X 20 inches [33 X 50.8 cm] Graphite on Paper
#sciart #gawoski #pollen #botany #botanical
February 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Columbine
4/2015 13 X 20 inches [33 X 50.8 cm] Graphite on Paper
#sciart #gawoski #pollen #botany #botanical
4/2015 13 X 20 inches [33 X 50.8 cm] Graphite on Paper
#sciart #gawoski #pollen #botany #botanical
Reposted by Bryan Paul Patterson
House of Water, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. Some of them were there to pump water out of the ground.
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#photography #photo #art #film #abandoned #analog #liminal #landscape
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. Some of them were there to pump water out of the ground.
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#photography #photo #art #film #abandoned #analog #liminal #landscape
January 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
House of Water, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. Some of them were there to pump water out of the ground.
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#photography #photo #art #film #abandoned #analog #liminal #landscape
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. Some of them were there to pump water out of the ground.
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#photography #photo #art #film #abandoned #analog #liminal #landscape
House of Air, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. They began to take on the character of shrines.
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#photography #photo #art #film #paganism #analog #fineart #landscape
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. They began to take on the character of shrines.
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#photography #photo #art #film #paganism #analog #fineart #landscape
January 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
House of Air, 2023
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. They began to take on the character of shrines.
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#photography #photo #art #film #paganism #analog #fineart #landscape
📷 #Rolleiflex 3.5B
🎞️ 120 Fomapan BW400
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I would hike into the scrublands and hills; and still find small structures and their remains everywhere. They began to take on the character of shrines.
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#photography #photo #art #film #paganism #analog #fineart #landscape