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gravesounds @wavesounds.bsky.social · 8h

point
📷minolta 7000/af 100mm f2
🎞️kodak tri-x

#photography #protest #london #streetphotography #filmphotography #b&w

marchers standing in small group. one is pointing at something. another holding a flag 'free palestine' is written on wall behind them. cops just visible bottom right in foreground

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Oh man this is good analysis.

Everyone is saying protect the dolls and I wonder when we'll say protect the bricks

Trans Writes @transwrites.world · 1d

transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

Who are the dolls which must be protected?

by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social

Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes

Ari Drennan, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:

transwrites.world

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 1d

STOP | SLOW
Portra 800 - OM4 - F.Zuiko 50mm 1.8

#streetphotography #film #filmphotography #photography #olympus #kodak

A pipe going down a brick wall beside an alley has a sign reading "STOP" and colored red on the left and "SLOW" and colored yellow on the right, for traffic leaving and heading into the alley, respectively.

Two shadows are split by the pipe running down the middle of their images on the wall. A tree is visible to the left as a shadow on the wall.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 1d

Two misc. scenes i liked
... and i could not help but think of @pylonograph.bsky.social

Left: Pentax MX - Ektar 100 - SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7
Right: OM 4 - Portra 800 - F.Zuiko 50mm f1.8

#film #photography #filmphotography #kodak #pentax #olympus #cone #パイロン写真部

A garage which is being overtaken by ivy. The person door is open on one side, and cones sit to either extremes of the frame.

A mid-2000s (my guess) Coca-Cola machine sits against a white steel wall. Four cones sit to the right of the vending machine. Grey asphalt paving as a ground treatment contrasts with the white wall.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 2d

going with my $50 thrift find speed graphic for the first stretch of #folderweek

shooting fp4+, all on the Fuji 135mm f5.6 today. and one leftover Acros 100 still in the holder.

#film #filmphotography #largeformat

A speed graphic (4x5 film camera) sits on a tripod in front of a green pump with an interesting shape and some trees, some coniferous, some with yellow leaves that have fallen

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gravesounds @wavesounds.bsky.social · 4d

something tells me the ever increasing police use of live facial recognition alongside the government making moves to restrict mask-wearing isn't coincidental

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 3d

*i actually think panopticon

DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 3d

of course it’s worse, as you said, since under the digital surveillance model the enforcer, and the rules, can change as time moves forward, so now the pressure is not relieved with time, since old ‘infractions’ can be found and punished as if you committed them today

DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 3d

my initial reaction is to say that panopticon as metaphor is dead, since you are observed at all times, and the only question is one of “how certain the punishment and how severe?”.

i actually panopticon as a metaphor is still useful since the psychological effect is the similar

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 3d

it is such a confluence of tech, the broad social movements we saw (anti-mask movements as cover), and fascism all working towards the will of the powerful.

i am also struck with how little societies care for consent in this way. when did we offer our likenesses up to ‘tech’, to be used against us?

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 4d

#filmphotography folks, can I get a little input? Light leaks in the Yashica Mat 124G or did I do something to expose the film while loading it? This pattern appears at the edges of most frames on the roll. this is only the fourth roll I’ve run through this camera. Never seen this before.

Photo of a FedEx van with light seeping in at the edges of the frame

Photo of the woods with light seeping on at the edges of the frame

Photo of the trunk of a pine tree with light seeping in at the edges of the frame

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 4d

i hope that good light and inspiration find you! (or if you can generate them, so much the better). i always end up looking at still life in an attempt to inspire myself. instead Weston’s shells haunt me.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 5d

fooling around on my porch this morning with the spotmatic and the new Kodak 200 speed film. long exposures and light trails. 29/36 completed for this roll.

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Halimede. @halimede.bsky.social · 5d

halimedemf.substack.com/p/against-ge...

"It is very very difficult for people who are not transgender women to understand just how much people hate transgender women; it slides off the mind like the historical reality of marital rape or the evils of factory farming."

new article!

Against 'Gender Identity'

but not like that. terfs fix your hearts

halimedemf.substack.com

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scottsphoto.bsky.social @scottsphoto.bsky.social · 6d

Ok, if those of you who scan negatives, i have a question for ya.
All I have done to the following image is darken it a little. If you look at the leaves, something is off. Every negative I have, the leaves show up the same way.
Any thoughts on why they look like that?

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 6d

Generating Plant/Above the Falls - Ektar 100 - Pentax MX - SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7

#film #filmphotography #photography #Ektar #Kodak #Pentax

A wall dominates the foreground, the top of which leads the eye to a low head dam which draws the eye back towards the other end of the frame through the midground. The top of the midground features a line of greenery leading to a large concrete building. The top of the frame is dominated by clear blue sky, around 4PM or so in summer.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 7d

Hat shop 2 - Portra 800 - Olympus OM4
Zuiko 50mm f1.8

#filmphotography #photography #Kodak #Portra #Olympus

A photo showing the inside of a hat shop, with a chrome, domed apparatus in the foreground, plus a large, round, chrome pot-like machine on the floor in front of a window. Outside the window are plants, some flowering. Hat forms are lined up around the ceiling, and a few completed hats are visible hung in the window.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 7d

"Look at that!"/Hat shop 1 - Portra 800 - Olympus OM4
Zuiko 50mm f1.8

#filmphotography #photography #Kodak #Portra #Olympus #Streetphotography

A couple and their two children walk past the window of a hat shop. Inside the window (where the camera is as well) is some sort of domed machine, ribbons and forms on the wall, and various tools. The taller person points towards the objects inside, finding them of great interest. The other also appears amused and interested by what their partner is pointing out. The two children appear to be interested in something else.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 8d

bread!

already ate one of the mini ones.

yummy!

more film scans done; jpgs to export next

#breadsky #sourdough

Three small loaves of bread above one larger boule, all on a bamboo breadboard and on top of a quilt.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 8d

finally cool enough outside that i can bake some bread without making it 80 in here. half white/half whole wheat sourdough.

i also hope to get some more film scans done and posted, should have time while this rises!

#breadsky

A bowl filled with bread dough sits on a quilt to rise. A flower patterned beeswax covered top (hopefully) keeps moisture in

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 10d

thanks! the good thing about color negative is you can always expose for the shadows and i never feel worried about the highlights. scanning on the other hand…

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Cleo @cleoski.bsky.social · 14d

📷 Voightlander Vito B
🎞️ Kodak Gold
Bristol College Green. Annoying on this camera, rewind a frame or shoot the whole roll twice. Didn't do the others right and they came out as single exposures, I have too many photos of hands and textures now 🫠
#photography #filmphotography #doubleexposure #bristol

A picture of a large green park with a big stone building in the background. The double exposure has mirrored the image on both axis

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DrMundane (PhD: no, mundane: yes) @drmundane.bsky.social · 11d

"I'm Helping" - Ektar 100 - Pentax MX - Vivitar 28mm f2.8

#film #filmphotography #Kodak #Ektar #Pentax #Canada

i love the contrast between the little CMP culvert and the enormity of the falls. the best version of this has the culvert flowing too, free idea for someone else!

A photo of Niagara Falls, with a CMP (corrugated metal pipe) culvert in the foreground sticking out of the bank. The enormity of the falls is contrasted by the small pipe, although both are doing the same job in the end. The grass in the foreground is green and well watered by the constant mist from the falls.

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