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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Sep 22

I took this shot several years ago in Florence. I had just purchased a Leica MP, a totally mechanical, analog camera. As the years passed I switched to digital cameras and sold the MP. My heart is still broken. What a stupid thing to do!
#leica #florence #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Sep 22

My thoughts about moving to Portugal after my most recent visit. #expat #livingabroad #livingineurope #portugal

Report from Portugal II

...second thoughts?

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Sep 14

The loniness of the long-distance traveler.

#blackandwhite #leica #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Sep 12

These three, a family, together but apart, together but alone, hands in pockets, in separate orbits.

#blackandwhitephotography #leica #streetphotography

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Apr 27

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The Rain in Spain

...makes us run to the café

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Apr 19

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I’m a Soybean Farmer Who Voted for Trump. I’m Begging the President to End the Trade War.

The tariffs on China could put us out of business by 2027. All our blood, sweat, and toil could vanish with the stroke of a pen.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Apr 17

Leaving the US as a (metaphoric) change of operating systems. #expat #liveabroad #travel #immigration #moveabroad

Changing the Life OS.

Moving abroad as a change of operating system.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Apr 15

Are You One of the Few Americans Who Really Could Move to Europe?

Good reading as we start to ramp up our residency visa application. #travel #livingabroad #expat

Are You One of the Few Americans Who Really Could Move to Europe?

Ten questions to ask yourself before you decide to move abroad

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Apr 15

By Way of Introduction

Going to Substack to begin series on travel and moving abroad. #travel #livingabroad #writing

By Way of Introduction

A blocked writer takes to Substack.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Jan 5

I'm at work on a series of essays about the essayist Michael de Montaigne. The first in the collection is a review of Sarah Bakewell's biography, "How to Live," linked here.

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Book Review: “How to Live, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts to Answer” by…

I was first introduced to Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) about thirty years ago. I was in graduate school. I don’t remember the class, nor…

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 31

“The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.” ~ John Locke

#filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #leica

©Doug Bruns 2024

Two silhouette walk through a bright portal in a black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 28

My essay, The Philosophy of Walking, originally published at The Courtships of Winds, is now up on Medium.
#essay #walking #creativity #philosophy

The Philosophy of Walking

Despite my titanium hips, and foot problems from years of marathoning, despite my tender back–one slipped disc–and the general wear and…

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 18

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.”
– Dorothea Lange

#photojournalism #blackandwhite #drama #leica

© Doug Bruns

A helicopter takes off behind barbed wire in a remote mountain valley of Nepal. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 15

“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.”
– Sam Abell

#streetphotography #analogphotography

© Doug Bruns, 2024, Italy

A woman walks in an alleyway, photographed from above. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 13

Dream state

#streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #leica #street #documentaryphotography

A blurry black and white image of a young man approaching the photographer. Photo by street photographer Doug Bruns

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you to The Sun Magazine for profiling one of my images. It is always a pleasure to see one's work out in the world, but especially so when the outlet is a favorite!

#thesunmagazine #photography #thesun #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #published

Black and white photograph of Doug Bruns as published in The Sun Magazine.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 13

“I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things.” ~ Alec Soth

#streetphotography #filmphotography #analogphotography #London #leica #monochrome

A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns. A pedestrian walks by a Piccadilly Line train in London.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 12

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
— Robert Frank

#photography #blackandwhite #streetphotography #monochrome

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A man sits on a stoop under an umbrella on a rainy day in Siena, Italy. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 10

“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

I like what I like. That’s the only concept I embrace.

#blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #leica #quote #hcb

An old woman walks past a concrete wall at the British Museum. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 9

“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” ~ Anthony Brugess

…yet I find periods of idleness, even long stretches of idleness, refreshing and creatively beneficial.

#blackandwhitephotography #analogphotography #quote #filmisnotdead

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A man stands under an arch in Siena, Italy. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 8

I just visited the gallery and this exhibit this morning. I love the space and visit whenever I’m in London.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 8

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” ~ Robert Capa

#streetphotography #blackandwhite #leica #streetphotographer #documentaryphotography

Close black and white image of a young woman while her friend looks on. By Doug Bruns

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Dec 7

I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 7

Putting yourself in the path of creative expression is a simple profundity.

#creativity #art #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #inspiration

© Doug Bruns

A grandmother and grandchild look at portraits of women in a museum gallery. A black and white photograph by Doug Bruns

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Doug Bruns @travelingpilgrim.bsky.social · Dec 6

When I sit zazen work. When I sit zazen no work. I agree, it happens.

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