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ClaireViolet 🌀
@ultraviolet.gay
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💛 A bright yellow object. 🏳️‍⚧️ https://www.ultraviolet.gay

Film photographer from Capitol Hill, Seattle.
Sometimes people I love call me sunshine.
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I'm on something of a street photography kick lately, so please enjoy these photos I took of New York and San Francisco.

glass.photo/108c/5DMHtvn... & glass.photo/108c/5b6IEA7...

Hasselblad X-Pan, 45mm f4 lens. • Kodak Portra 400.
#xpan #filmphotography
A handful of commuters walk left and right through the beige shuttle platform at Grand Central 42nd street. Blindingly bright sunlight beams into the stairs of BART's 16th Street Mission station as people with backpacks head to the escalator.
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Sometimes as a photographer, you just get really fucking lucky. Looking forward to seeing how this comes out on film in a few weeks.
In the foreground, about a dozen or so kayakers in the San Francisco bay. In the background, a fully-laden container ship for the MSC company on the horizon, heading the opposite direction.
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Here is a photo that I shared on Glass a few days ago which got a lot of attention over there, “Subway.”

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Hasselblad X-Pan, 45mm f4 lens. • Kodak Portra 400.
#filmphotography #xpan
Pedestrians wait on a busy streetcorner below a glowing sign announcing a NYC subway stop at Times Square. A hotdog cart also invites tourists as many advertisements cover the nearby buildings.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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The detail is really there, I pinky promise.
A close up of part of the image which reveals graffiti on the side of the building which reads "Arm the Dolls" right next to a red sign which reads "Do not enter or cross tracks."
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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“Arm the Dolls”

Graffiti faintly visible on the grey utility structure as a J 🟤 train arrives at Broadway Junction.

Take a look in higher resolution, with less compression on Glass: glass.photo/108c/5aI921H...

Hasselblad X-Pan, 45mm f4 lens. • Kodak Portra 400.
#filmphotography #xpan
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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“Value”

Container ship moored at the Port of Oakland.

Hasselblad X-Pan, 45mm f4 lens. • Kodak Portra 160.
#filmphotography #xpan
The bow of a container ship, red bulbous bow just breaching the water, green hull adorned only with the word "Value", stacked mostly with 20' containers, mooring lines tying it to the Port of Oakland.
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Oh fuck yes. FUCK YES.
An enormous print of claire violet’s photos, showing great colors and using a Field Notes brand memo book for comparison. Claire Violet pointing at a very large photographic print here her nailpolish is very vibrant, like the rich reds of the image. Claire Violet using its red sweater and a yellow pantone plastic color reference chip to illustrate the saturation and beautiful hues of its photographic print.
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I mean it. Tell this girl right now that she's beautiful. @mbbischoff.com

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#filmphotography #xpan
A beautiful blonde girl wearing rose-colored glasses stands smiling in front of glowing stained glass.
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I don't think this photograph really needs commentary to explain what we're saying to one another.

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#filmphotography #xpan
A beautiful blonde girl between the pillars of West 4th Street subway station, in the new york city subway, on the platform for the uptown D train. Her expression is serene, and simultaneously cold but loving. The station lights glow warmly behind her.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Some would have you believe that this is what 5:30 is supposed to look like. They are mistaken.
An incredibly dark seattle park, the only light is from the city’s downtown reflecting off the bottom of the low-hanging cloud layer.
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Everyone should tell @mbbischoff.com how beautiful she is.

glass.photo/108c/qlgDOwR...
#filmphotography #xpan
A beautiful girl, blonde hair lit from the side, perfectly framing her face as she looks down. Her glasses and red backpack sit perfectly on her.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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uniqlo cashmere is my friend
cv in a pink sweater. it is very soft. its chest looks really pretty. in the background an IKEA whale looks toward the camera suspiciously
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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An N700A Shinkansen arriving in Kyoto.

Taken on Fujifilm Velvia. glass.photo/108c/h3GLq0j...

#filmphotography #35mm #xpan #fujifilm #velvia #BelieveInFilm
A white train with a long front nose sits low to the ground and is surrounded by overhead catenary and other darkened maintenance-of-way railroad equipment.
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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hypnopizza
a pizza with a spiral of sauce on it
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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FUCK!!!!! ALASKA AIR TOOK THE SUBPOP LOGO OFF THE DUDE’S TSHIRT ON THE LATEST SAFETY CARD

SEATTLE’S CULTURAL SUPREMACY IS BEING WATERED DOWN! Unacceptable.
an in-flight safety information card which features three people sitting in airplane seats. on the right, a dude wearing converse and a jean jacket over a plain black tshirt, where once appeared a subpop logo
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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“Desire”

Wishes attached to wind-chimes at the Heian-jingu Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, for the annual Tanabata Festival in early July, which celebrates the meeting of two lovers.

Taken on Fujifilm Velvia. glass.photo/108c/4vMEF44...

#filmphotography #35mm #xpan #fujifilm #velvia #BelieveInFilm
Multicolored slips of paper with wishes on them hang from small bubble-shaped glass windchimes, which themselves hang from the red wooden roof of a japanese shrine. The windchimes and wishes stretch out well beyond the viewer and the focus is turned up toward them.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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i mean i took it on slide film ◡̈

here are my receipts, although it looks like i got the filmstock wrong: it was velvia100, not provia.
the same photo but visible is the filmstock with the manufacturer label “fuji rvp100” a close-up detail of one of the images
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I stand at the ready.
A washington state ferry in Elliot Bay, almost perfectly centered with the Space Needle.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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“Devotion”
Paper lanterns at Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, Japan during the Gion Matsuri festival.
Taken on Fujifilm Provia.

glass.photo/108c/2rKV77U...
#filmphotography #xpan #35mm #BelieveInFilm
A structure covered in golden paper hanging lanterns glows in the darkness, red and gold shrines in the center of the main shrine reflect their light back at the viewer, but their view is obscured.
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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“Deeper”
Another from Fushimi Inari-taisha, Kyoto, Japan.
Taken on Fujifilm Velvia.

glass.photo/108c/3kxhS5o...
#filmphotography #xpan #BelieveInFilm #35mm
A sequence of red torii gates at a shinto shrine, dark in the foreground, leading to a vibrant and bright red deeper in, inviting, beckoning you forward, deeper into the tunnel, which block out almost everything else around, save for a few rays on sunshine which cover the ground in a repetitive lattice.
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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"Waiting, Intersecting."
A level-crossing with JR West's Sagano line nearby the bamboo grove in Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan.
Taken on Fujifilm Provia.

glass.photo/108c/IP8A64c...
#filmphotography #xpan #BelieveInFilm
A black toyota taxicab and scooter pause at a lowered level-crossing as a beige and brown train passes through. The sky is overcast and the hills in the distance a rich, dark green.
November 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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"Obsession."
Heian-jingu Shrine, Kyoto, Japan.
Taken on Fujifilm Velvia.

glass.photo/108c/6pqATIy...
#filmphotography #xpan #BelieveInFilm
Vermillion wooden eaves of a shinto shrine in Japan block out the sun, the ends of each wood beam shine a bit yellow. Intricate joinery and tight spacing create a repetitive pattern.
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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"Vermillion in Sunlight."
Fushimi Inari-taisha, Kyoto, Japan.
Taken on Fujifilm Velvia.

glass.photo/108c/5Gi0cq3...
#filmphotography #xpan #BelieveInFilm
A tunnel of vermillion torii gates at a shinto shrine in japan glow yellow in sunlight. The names of companies and individuals who donated each gate are inscribed on the columns.
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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No
Exit

#xpan #filmphotography #ektar
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A subway platform in New York City, Delancey Street. White tile appears cream in artificial light. There are lots of beige tones, and the platform is empty, waiting for a train, or for people. A sign from the ceiling announces "NO EXIT, Exit at the middle of platform." to the viewer, dead-center middleground of the frame.
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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LINOTYPE IS SECURE
Claire Violet smiling and standing on a uhaul trailer with a large cast iron hunk of metal (a Linotype) ratchet-strapped down
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM