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All photos mine. As a teenager, I loved a class that spurred my interest in creating and sharing photographic images. For most of my adult life, I put that […]

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Clusters of verticals rise in New York. This shot of Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge Park pile field includes some of the park's trees, which I think provides more visual contrast than my previous effort from a few weeks back. The new Rollei 35AF does not […]

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A field of pilings stands in the East River; the deck they once supported is long gone. On the left half of the photo, across the river, rise the buildings of Lower Manhattan. The right half of the picture shows some of the park's trees.
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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When it is time for me to ride off into the sunset, I want to go like this. #photography #Iceland #horse
A half dozen Icelandic horses traverse a black sand beach at sunset under the guidance of two mounted young women.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Today is my Fediversary here at Pixelfed. It’s been three years since I created my account. I deeply appreciate all the people that I have met through the years. May the Fediverse continue to grow, diversify, and provide a real alternative to the corporate […]

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The Statue of Liberty stands in Upper New York Bay with gray skies and a flock of shipping container cranes providing the backdrop. A waning crescent moon hides behind the clouds next to the torch, but, alas, Sunday’s weather prevents you from seeing it.
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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A beaver moon rises over Manhattan. #photography #nyc #NewYork (I still am annoyed that, for various reasons, I haven’t produced the shot of the moon that I want, but each time I fail in a new way, so I guess I’m learning.)
A full moon rises from behind the buildings of lower Manhattan, most notably One World Trade Center, as seen from New Jersey.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Wonton wishes he were a black cat today. #cat #photography #smartphone
A mackerel tabby rests with his head down and his front paws extended. He squints, giving him the appearance of brooding or, more likely, scheming.
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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On the way back from the beach, I stopped at the burying ground to shoot some film with the Nikonos. The oldest engraved headstone is dated 1718, but there are plain field stones that mark graves from a time closer to Elizabeth Feake Hallet's purchase of the […]

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The sun illuminates about a dozen traditional New England gravestones. All are significantly off of plumb vertical. They contrast strongly with the dark evergreens in the background.
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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#photography #classicmono #monochrome #believeinfilm I took my Rollei 35AF to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see if I could learn to produce better results with it. It is so portable that I want to love it and am beginning to think that I will.
A classic sculptural bust of a woman stands on a plinth with a neutral gallery wall providing the backdrop.
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Jimmy channels some school portrait vibes. #dog #dogsOfPixelFed #fedidog #photography
A fluffy golden brindle dog with white markings looks at the camera with his pink tongue hanging out. Golden fall foliage provides the backdrop.
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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"Is there a Mr. Tumnus here? Seymour Tumnus?" I don't yet love my Rollei 35AF, but I can't say exactly why. It's not as primitive as the old Nikonos nor as powerful as the Nikon Z6ii. I'm going to shoot a few more rolls before I decide whether to sell it or […]

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Ivy surrounds a public payphone.
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Alone in the crowd. #photography #nyc #humansofbluesky #PhoTak #believeinfilm #monochrome #lofi
A solitary figure sits on a folding chair with a half dozen empty chairs around him. In the background, people relax on the lawn of Bryant Park.
October 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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There’s something really enjoyable about counting off exposure time by quietly muttering “one Mississippi” to approximate a single second of open shutter. Followers may recall that a friend gave me an old Pho-Tak box camera which appears as my profile avatar […]

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The left half of the photo shows the right shoulder, mane, and snout of Fortitude, one of the two sculpted lions guarding the library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd street. The right half of the photo shows the arched windows and American flags of the Beaux Art Astor Trust Company building. A woman in a flowing black outfit admires an element of Jennie C. Jones’s musical sculpture Ensemble. The piece shown rises about three meters from its plinth and is comprised of two geometric prisms made of steel. Musical strings drawn tautly over a soundbar bar on the right hand prism enable it to be tuned and played like a zither. Visitors to the rooftop garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art chat with each other and take photos over the hedge that defines the terrace’s edge. In the background across Central Park stands the El Dorado and other apartment buildings. The monochrome photograph provides a low angle view of Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze sculpture of a female figure, right arm raised to its head, its torso half covered by its dress.
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Are you a New York voter? Are you also planning to vote for progressive candidates this November? If so, please consider voting for the candidates of your choice on the Working Families Party line rather than on the Democratic Party line. With New York’s […]

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This photo of the lower Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade was taken with my forty year old Nikonos dive camera. It shows Brooklyn Bridge Park in the foreground, the East River in the middle distance, about three dozen high rise buildings on the opposite shore, and a few puffy clouds floating by above it all. I had planned to come back to this location to use contemporary equipment to shoot digital photos of a full moon behind the Statue of Liberty, but the weather turned against me, so I stayed in bed.
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Do you like your water crunchy or smooth? The black sand beach where the Glacial Lagoon at Vatnajökull National Park exits to the sea offers water both ways: the swirling dark waves of the North Atlantic or the crystalline blue structure of a glacial fragment […]

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A chunk of clear, blue-tinted glacial ice sits on a black sand beach as swirls of sea foam recede around it.
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Blue steel. #photography #horse #Iceland
With the wind tousling its mane and tail, a white Icelandic horse walks along a black sand beach, the sea and sky serving as backdrop.
October 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Love’s not the lock; it’s the hole cut in the fence. If William Blake didn’t say it, he should have. #nyc #photography #smartphone #love
Numerous padlocks attached as romantic tributes (including a large, brass, heart-shaped one) surround a hole through which can be seen a distant train about to enter the tunnel.
September 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The sun rises at Kirkjufell, the iconic "Church Mountain" on Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninusula. This photo was taken a little further downriver from the scene I posted previously. #Iceland #photography
A waterfall and river comprise the foreground of the photo, while on the horizon, an orange and rose colored sunrise illuminates the peak of steeply sloped mountain.
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I am delighted to have my old Nikonos dive camera repaired and functioning once again. I have heard it called "the poor man's Leica." I don't know about that, but I do love it! #photography #nyc #believeinfilm #nikonos
A field of wooden pilings rises from the Brooklyn shore of the East River while in the distance stands the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.
September 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Geothermal energy has been used in Iceland since the Vikings and currently provides heat and hot water to 90% of the homes. Here at Hverarönd, it has baked the landscape dry. #photography #Iceland #geology
A low, wide angle shot shows a field of cracked mud that has been baked by rising geothermal heat.
September 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Iceland often showcases its own geological formation. You can see some of the forces well at Hverir near Lake Myvatn. #photography #Iceland #geology
A figure walks toward the camera along a boardwalk over a steaming geothermal mudflat.
September 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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The only thing more dramatic than the light on the beach at Höfn was this white horse. Here he tries to play the role of the sensitive type. #photography #Iceland #horse
A white horse in profile nuzzles the neck of a brown horse, who faces the camera directly.
September 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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The turquoise water at Sigölduglúfur results from all the silica it absorbs as it seeps from the hydroelectric reservoir and through the lava fields before emerging here. #photography #smartphone #landscape #Iceland
A half dozen cascades emerge from a cliffside of basalt to plunge and join the bright blue waters below.
September 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The colorful hills of Landmannalaugar in the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in Iceland’s Highlands offer excellent walking trails not to mention designated geothermal springs for post-hike soaking. #photography #Iceland #landscape
A small rivulet winds through a valley, the sloping sides of which display colors that, while largely khaki, also include gray, black, blue, and green.
September 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Don’t clean your screen! Those specks in the sky are all sea birds. Okay, maybe clean your screen, too. Yeah, you’ve got some schmutz there. #photography #monochrome #Iceland #bird
The sun illuminates the curve of the black sand of ⁨Reynisfjara Beach, while the cliffside to the left remains in shadow. The Reynisdrangar sea stacks stand in silhouette. Overhead, puffins and other sea birds shuttle between mainland and ocean.
September 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Comets hurtling through space? No. It's glacial ice and swirling sea foam on a black sand beach. One photo shows a wave receding, the other a wave crashing in. I don’t think I’ve ever had as much pure fun taking photographs as I had standing in the North […]

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Vortices of white sea foam swirl off the pointed corners of a chunk of clear glacial ice and recede across the black sand. A rush of incoming white sea foam swirls against and around a chunk of clear glacial ice that sits on soon-to-be-inundated black sand.
September 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The word for waterfall in Icelandic is foss, and apparently it’s a hugely popular hashtag here in the Fediverse. Who knew? This photo shows Skógafoss⁩ close up as its water falls freely into the open from a more remote source. #photography #Iceland #monochrome #foss
Cascading water falls in a manner suggestive of a curtain. The black and white image fills the entire frame.
September 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM