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Michael Badalamenti
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Wandering around San Luis Obispo, California stopping time.

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664: https://two21.net/2025/06/27/664/
Photo of a house with a red door with two windows at the top. There is a plant with small white flowers in a large tall yellow pot on the door step next two two white pillars with the house number 664 on one. There is a section of clapboard around the door and anther of brick.
June 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Red Door and Tree Shadow: https://two21.net/2025/06/24/red-door-and-tree-shadow/
Photo of bright red door with paint bubbling off and a section with the inner core of foam visible. The wall around the door is corrugated metal and there is a dark shadow of a tree branch covering the top third of the photo.
June 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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919 Palm Street: https://two21.net/2025/06/17/919-palm-street/
A photo of a wall of the Palm Street parking garage with a window trimmed with a large border of white stucco. The lower part of the wall is red brick with shadows from a tree and the building next door. The upper part of the wall is beige stucco. The window is not made to have glass and has 4 sections. Inside one section is a light. A photo of a shadow of a tree on the wall of the Palm Street parking garage. One part of the wall is white stucco with straight line seams running through it and the other sections is dark red brick.
June 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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April 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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February 2025 Highlights: https://two21.net/2025/04/01/february-2025-highlights/
A photo taken from part way up Cerro San Luis. At the bottom of the frame is a green landscape with trees. In the middle is a fog bank, and above a bright blue sky. In the fog are four turkey vultures soaring over the valley. There are three power lines going up the mountain running from the lower left corner to the upper right. Photo of the trunk of a palm tree with an out of focus electirc meter for a hotel on Marsh Street in San Luis Obispo, California. Photo through a shop window of a brick wall with electric outlets and switches, paintings, and plants in front of it. There is a reflection of the shop's door like a ghost superimposed on top of the image. Photo of a restaurant not open yet for the day with chairs stacked on top of the tables. The photo is through the window with a reflection of the door appearing in the background.
April 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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This:

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Pluralistic: Ideas Lying Around (03 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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March 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day, J: https://two21.net/2025/02/14/you-are-loved/
Photo of a flower shop window with the words "You are love" on it. The text is surrounded by small hearts in pastel colors with Valentine's Day messages on them.
February 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Serious question.

Who will take up this mantle today?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7x8...
"Have you no sense of decency, Sir?" Joseph Welch to Joe McCarthy
YouTube video by Witnify
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Late January Walks: https://two21.net/2025/02/04/late-january-walks/
Photo of an upper corner of the Anderson Hotel eight double hung windows and a blue sky. On the top of the building there is an ornate overhang and along the edge is a line of twenty-nine pigeons in a row. Photo of leave of a ficus tree through a window with an out of focus reflection of trees, apartment buildings, and a cloudy sky. Photo of the side of a building with three doors at street level and five windows on the second floor in golden light with the shadow of a street light pole on it. These is a tree, no parking sign a parking kiosk and the light pole in the fore ground. Photo of through a window of different colored pennants on a string with the reflection of the street. All the pennants have SLO, short for San Luis Obispo, where the photo was taken.
February 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Three Trees
February 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Isolation feels like peace,
But it’s just quiet.

#Nazaré #Portugal
#EastCoastKin
The image shows an old, weathered metal gate with vertical bars, set within a stone or concrete wall. Rust clings to the iron, hinting at years of exposure to the elements. Beyond the gate, an open world stretches out—vibrant blue sky meeting the deep, endless ocean at the horizon. Sunlight spills through the bars, casting shadows on the rough surface beneath. The contrast is striking: the rigid, rusted gate in the foreground, a symbol of confinement, while the vast, untouched beauty of the sea and sky beyond whispers of freedom and possibility.
February 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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From a walk on the Keighley Moors today. #yorkshire
#Bradford2025 #leicaq2m #monochrome #bnwphotography
February 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Maple leaves love to dance in the slightest of a breeze, but on this particular morning, the air was perfectly still during this 32 second exposure. Photo on Fuii Provia 100f 8x10 film with a Fujinon A 240mm lens on my Chamonix Alpinist X camera.
February 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Paper Flowers: https://two21.net/2025/02/02/paper-flowers/
Photo of large pink paper flower in a shop window with a painted background of a hill, trees and a blue sky.There is an out of focus reflection of lights from the street in part of the frame. Photo of three large pink paper flowers in a shop window with a painted background of a hill, trees and a blue sky. There is an out of focus reflection of trees from the street and glare discoloring part of the one flower in part of the frame.
February 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Another waterfall - this is Kolufossar in the north-west of #Iceland, taken in Sept 2014 when I used to do more very long exposures (this is 30 seconds).
A black and white photo of a set of waterfalls cascading into a little canyon. There are smooth clouds in the sky above and light and dark shadows around the falls. The sun is shining on the largest of the falls, making them look very white
February 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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📷️Nikon Zf
📸Thypoch Simera 50mm F1.4
#photography
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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look: https://two21.net/2025/01/31/look/
Photo of shadow of the word look on a black painted wall in a shop window with shadows around the word.
January 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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'LEGOLAND'
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A long exposure capturing the unique perspective between two modern apartment buildings in Amsterdam.
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#photography #photographersunited #bnwphotos #longexposure #wallart #ayearofart #fineartphotography
A photograph of modern apartment blocks in Amsterdam, Netherlands, captures their towering presence as they frame the scene. The long exposure technique renders the clouds as soft, sweeping streaks across the sky, adding a sense of movement. The stark contrast between the dark architectural forms and the luminous sky enhances the depth and perspective, drawing attention to the structures' scale. The monochrome tones emphasise the interplay of light and shadow, highlighting the urban landscape’s striking geometry.
January 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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‘Rivals’.
It was lovely, a couple of years ago, to have this photo included in Phaidon Press’s anthology, ‘Ocean’ opposite a painting by Aivazovsky. 📷
A black and white photograph of a wave and a lighthouse. The wave seems to dwarf the lighthouse. Lots of spray.
January 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Halifax, West Yorkshire
#streetphotography #leicaq2m #bnwphotography
January 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Morning at the Quiraing
January 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Rats! Accidentally reformatted last week’s photo walk sd card before transferring the photos to the computer. Only discovered my error after this week’s walk when I noticed no folder for last week. All the photos were probably bad anyway. Right? 🤦🏻‍♂️📷
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Confidence, today’s blossom 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #blackandwhite
January 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Rays in the mist
January 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM