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Nessa Gray
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Heading up

I think every piece of the Seattle library is just beautiful. It’s possible I might be a book nerd.

Pentax 17
Kodak Tri-X 400

#believeinfilm #pentax17 #tx400 #library @spl.org #classicmono
A photograph taken looking up at the sky while riding the escalator up to street level in the Seattle library. The large eastern face of the building is composed of steel lattice work with windows giving the effect of looking through a very large distant mesh. On the escalator in front of the Photographer another library patron is silhouette against the bright sky.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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If you aren’t careful, this is how you find out what fix tastes like. Ask me how I know.

A medium format game of “is it pictures” tonight.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This is what happens when you goof the loading on your Hapo 66e, you run out of film before you run out on the counter. Neat 2/3 of a photo of Blake the horse though.

#foldingcamera #folderfriday #believeinfilm #horse #portra
A white horse looks at the camera from across a wire fence in the afternoon sunlight. The left 1/3 of the frame is blank because the photographer goofed up loading the camera.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Is #motocrossmonday a thing? Should it be?

A very cool vintage Maico for my first #folderweek post. Shockingly sharp for having been shot on an uncoupled rangefinder just kinda guessing at focus distance.

#foldingcamera #portra #believeinfilm #hapo66e #maico #vintagemotorcycle
A vintage air cooled Maico motocross bike sits in a band of sunlight inside a greenhouse. Unlike modern motorcycles these racing two strokes had huge air cooled cylinders with the exhaust sneaking underneath the frame to exit near the rear wheel. The bodywork is pale yellow and made of a mixture of plastic and fiberglass. The gas tank is handmade from aluminum and has a beautiful brushed raw metal finish highlighted by the afternoon sun. This particular bike is in exceptional condition having recently been restored and is currently in storage before going back on display in the owners collection. The photographer would have loved to take it for a ride, but these things are so notoriously loud everybody within a couple of miles would have known what she was up to ha ha.
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It is pictures! And half frame ones too!
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Working with my favorite dark arts and potions tonight. Lets see if we can conjure some pictures
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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I mean, I just got a Hapo 66e and my life has never been better
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I take instruction from only the most reliable sources, sketchy tagging on back alley dumpsters of course.

Pentax auto 110
Lomography tiger 200
DSLR scan

#believeinfilm #110film #lomography #seattle #graffiti
A color photo of the side of a grey dumpster with green graffiti that reads “when in doubt attack”. The dumpster pretty much fills the frame.
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Seattle has such a beautiful library!

From my last test roll with the Hapo folding camera after I fixed the light leak. Shot on Tri-X 400, processed in D-76.

#believeinfilm #tx400 #foldingcamera #library #seattle
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Derpy

I swear I’ve met this guy at a bar somewhere. Shot on our way to pick up a book, with a Pentax 17 and Fuji 200 color

#believeinfilm #pentax17 #halfframephotography #fujifilm #seattle #graffiti
The same derpy graffiti face from my post yesterday looks back at the photographers half frame camera from a decrepit wall in a gravel parking lot on first Hill in Seattle. If this bit of paint or sentient it would probably be getting a little annoyed with how often this particular photographer uses it for a test shot
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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More Hapo test shots. The shooting workflow is a little different with an uncoupled rangefinder. Makes it easy to prospect for images without the hassle of opening the camera.

#foldingcamera #believeinfilm #tx400 #hapo66e
A black bmw sedan sits tucked next to a wall behind a steel chain in a parking garage in downtown Seattle. The composition reminded the photographer of a big cat sitting in the shade at a zoo. Water splashes in the fountain outside the main Seattle library while a city bus and a pedestrian cross the intersection in the background. A derpy looking graffiti face looks out from the broken retaining wall in a gravel parking lot on first hill in Seattle. The photographer uses this spot for a lot of gear tests, so you will probably see it again.
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The bike shop

A very light-leaky test shot from the first roll through my Hapo 66e folding camera. This huge light leak turned out to be a very tiny missing rivet near the base of the bellows. Gaff tape to the rescue!

#foldingcamera #tx400 #believeinfilm
The entrance to a bike repair shop located in an underground garage in Seattle. The photograph is looking down a long driveway entrance under a historic building and at the end of the hallway several bicycles waiting for service are visible
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Spotted while out running errands today. 10/10 no notes
A business Mark sign for an athletic awards trophy shop which reads “U heard? Bird is high key the vibe”.
October 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Looking up from inside the bainbridge ferry for this weeks #blueskyartshow #inside theme. Shot with a pentax 17 and Ilford FP4

#ilfordfp4 #pentax17 #believeinfilm
A photo taken looking straight up out the sundeck windows on the Bainbridge ferry. The frame of the windows is visible in the foreground with the high altitude patchy clouds visible in the distant background
October 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The rest of my roll from Holga week. Expired portra 160 in a glass lens Holga works better than I would have though.

#believeinfilm #holga #portra #expiredfilm
The landing on an external stairway leaving a parking garage illuminated in the high contrast afternoon sunlight. A collection of colored lighting tubes on display at the local Camera store. In the photo of the tubes run diagonally across a dark frame from bottom left to top right The town brick façade of a hospital building with brass name plates of daughter fixed in a semi random pattern. The photograph is shot at an extreme angle looking along the wall
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Remembering a beautiful warm summer day on the first really grey wet day of the year.

Pentax 110 Auto
Lomography Tiger
DSLR scan manually inverted

#believeinfilm #110film #pentax110auto #lomography #adv
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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@tamslick.bsky.social are you in my neighborhood?
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Reflections

Downtown is a sea of bouncing light in the late summer.

Pentax 17
Fuji 200

#believeinfilm #pentax17 #seattle
The reflected sunset bouncing off of the Union Center, Tower illuminates the side of the Coast hotel building at sunset in downtown Seattle. Since the light is bouncing off the windows from each individual floor of the union tower, it forms individual bands of light across the windowless side of the building in the photograph.
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Took a couple months on the library waitlist, but I’ve finally got @sarahkendzior.bsky.social most recent book in my hands.
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I’m headed to the library today. A slightly bigger branch than this one.

#pentax17 #believeinfilm #littlefreelibrary
A little library stands in front of the historic Dearborn house in Seattle.
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Lime

From Holga Week over on IG. Shot with a Woca 120g and some very expired Kodak portra.

#believeinfilm #holga #portra #limebike
A lime bike glider sit down scooter sits on a sidewalk in front of a brown apartment building wall.
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Next up for folder week. And a coin toss decided it’s getting loaded with portra 800.

#folderweek #beliveinfilm #portra #retina2a
A photograph of the top of a Kodak retina 2 a sitting on the Photographer’s desk
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A roll of portra for the fall colors on the first day of #folderweek

#believeinfilm #portra400 #foldingcamera #hapo66e
The photographers Hapo 66e folding medium format camera sits closed on a desk top next to a single roll of Kodak Portra 400 color film. The Hapo is an uncoupled rangefinder, meaning you have to manually transfer the focus distance from its built in optical range finder to the lens adjustment. This adds an extra step but saves a lot of weight so it’s a great pocket camera despite the larger film size. This photographer purchased this one for a massive bargain because it had a tiny light leak which she fixed with a piece of gaffers tape, which can probably fix anything.
October 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Over the weekend I picked up a vintage Kodak tripod. I wanted something to pair with my older cameras but the more I play with this thing the more impressed I am with how light and easy to use it is. Kinda feeling like the moderns stuff has lost the plot a bit.
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM