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Brian Beker
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All photos shot by and ©Brian Beker unless repost or noted. Film in permanent collection MoMA/NY. Signal: Dispatch.02

#filmphotography
#photo
#photography
#streetphotography
#believeinfilm
#dogs

And all animals
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I only use that old timer for on/off; I use the metronome to time exposures. Plate glass in the brown paper on baseboard for contacts. Two safelights, one red LED in a clamp-on shop light, and an old amber (not trustworthy yet) and I block that window. Works pretty well.
A picture of an amber safelight and a red one
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I mentioned it a while ago, but not really. Beseler 67C enlarger with Rodenstock Apo-Rodagon. Took some work to align, but it’s like new. The picture of the enlarger is basically the entire darkroom! I put trays on the counter, wash in the sink; chem stash in a closet, lemon juice bottles for chems.
A picture of a darkroom enlarger on a kitchen counter. A picture of two closet shelves filled with photo chemicals
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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First round of silver halide test prints from my so far total cost $60 darkroom which is in fact my kitchen counter but it works okay on dark nights.

#filmphotography #photography
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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"Because it is there."

IIIf, UMX400, HC110
#dogs #filmphotography
A black and white photograph of a little black and white dog standing on top of a big pointy boulder that she’s climbed.
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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B&H just sent me a 100’ roll of T-Max 100 that expires in five weeks and I’m kind of miffed. This stuff is as pricey as film gets. #filmphotography
The black and yellow label on a box of Kodak T-Max film showing an expiration date in five weeks.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Unsurprisingly, miller's numbers were pulled out of someone’s fat orange ass.
A paragraph from the New York Times that reads: A delayed labor market report showed U.S. employers had added 119,000 jobs in September, a solid pace of hiring; the unemployment rate also ticked higher, though, to 4.4 percent. The mixed numbers pushed up investors’ expectations that the Fed will cut interest rates another quarter of a percentage point at its next meeting, in December, but not by much, with the odds still favoring the Fed leaving rates unchanged.
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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You think your dog is smart? Okay, but let me know when your dog can do this.

#dogs #dogsofbluesky #filmphotography
A drawing of a hand making a howling wolf shadow and the resulting shadow puppet on a white background. A black and white photograph of a dog looking up a tree while her shadow on the next tree looks like the one the shadow puppet made.
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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He left the mark of Zohran on some faces with that speech.
The famous Z inscription of Zorro
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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The glamorous life of a pilot. This was one of the planes I used to drag banners in. It went on to kill a friend of mine. A fun, but shady company where we (pilots) were encouraged to do crazy shit, including upholding the tradition of throwing grappling hooks at ground crew. 1/2

#aviation
An unbelievably beat up, old single engine Rawdon T-1 airplane.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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A Bedouin sitting with his cat outside his home in the Libyan Desert oasis of Farafra, Egypt, 1982.

This one’s for
@catsofyore.bsky.social
(let me know if you’d like a print for your collection — happy to send you one).

Nikon F, 50mm Nikkor-H, Tri-X

#filmphotography #photography #Egypt #cats
A black and white photograph of a smiling barefoot Bedouin man in a remote north Saharan oasis. He's stroking the ears of a happy cat seated in front of him on the ground outside his mud brick house.
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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A little beaver pond in the Vermont hills in the last of the light today.

M6/90-Elmar C, UMX400 200ASA in HC-110B

#filmphotography #photography #landscape #blackandwhite
A dark black and white photograph of a still water pond in the hills of south Vermont where the light is falling on a rock with some plants and the water reflecting them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Hitting delete on some manuscript the old-fashioned way here tonight.

M6/90EC UFX100

#filmphotography #writing #photography
A black and white photograph of a large tangle of shredded handwritten manuscript.
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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McCrery Architects. A bunch of google reviews might give some DC intern tasked with finding an architect some idea of who not to call.
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Halligan probably came up with this classic:
October 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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#NoKings in the small Vermont town of Bellows Falls.
October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Pokey stretched out for a break on the leaves after climbing the mountain today in Vermont.

M6/90mm f4 Elmar, UFX100 200ASA HC-110E

#dogs #dogsofbluesky #filmphotography
A close-up black and white photograph of the white back paw of a black and white dog lying on a bed of fallen leaves with her white-tipped tail hooked over her ankle.
October 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Pokey Beker, Jr., Jr celebrating her sixth birthday on a 7-mile mouse safari in the Vermont woods today.

M6/90EC UMX400 at 200ASA in HC-110B

#dogs #dogsofbluesky #filmphotography
A black and white dog looks down on the misty woods below from a Vermont hilltop.
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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A real kneeslapper by some kid in this 1950s school copy of Huckleberry Finn
Book title Huckleberry Finn appears at the top of every page some joker changed Finn to Fink
October 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Pokey being joyful about a frisbee she scavenged in the woods — all the more delicious because she knows the dog who owned it and considers it a heist.

Happy birthday from this #adorable!
September 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Poor Pokey moping because she tore a claw while in furious pursuit of a mouse.

F2/Micro 105 f2.8, UMX400 in HC-110B

#dogs #dogsofbluesky #filmphotography #believeinfilm.
A little black and white dog sits on the forest floor, hanging her head as she bemoans the fact that she has been placed on restricted duty in her lifelong struggle with the mouse owing to an injured dewclaw.
September 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Ever notice how graceful and elegant handwriting from a long time ago was? Want to brush up your lousy scrawls? Starting around the turn of the century public schools taught the Palmer method, and boy oh boy, it worked but it didn’t come easy. Check this thing out on the Archive:
A beautifully illustrated cover for an instructional book on Palmer Method penmanship.
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Indian hawker selling custom mixed remedies for anything that ails you.

M6/50SM, Tri-X

#photography #filmphotography #streetphotography #believeinfilm
A black and white photograph at the center of which an old bearded man in a turban and bare feet explains the contents and medical potential of the contents of various tins to a small group of onlookers.
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Bus station on the #Nepal - #India border.

M6/50SM, Tri-X

#photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm
A black and white photograph. In the background is a white bus with people looking out the windows at the foreground scene, in which a beggar has been sent to the ground by some men.
September 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Another shot from the HC-110+Rodinal mix test. Same roll as the last one posted: Ultrafine 100 Xtreme at 200ASA, 4.4ml HC, 2ml Rodinal 68°, 3M prewet, 10:15 development. Straight off the scanner and detail at 300 percent (screengrab, so may be bad)

M6/50M

#filmphotography #darkroom
A black and white photograph of a small black and white dog running with a big, happy grin toward the camera on a grassy, woodland trail with tall trees in the background.
September 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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In a Kathmandu alleyway.

M6/50M, Tri-X

#filmphotography #photography #Nepal
A black and white photograph of a very narrow old alleyway in Kathmandu with brick walls on either side and on the pathway on which a man walks toward the camera.
September 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM