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Sean Johnston
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🍁 Emeritus prof U. Glasgow, in rural SW Scotland
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Churchyard gate.

#photography #bw #monochrome #mediumformat #Mamiya #TLR #C330 #fog #mist #iron #bwphotography #art #artphotography #filmphotography #6x6 #southwest #scotland
A tree and field in the mist beyond a 19C iron gate. (c) 2012 Sean F. Johnston
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Aberdeen, 2010.

#photography #bw #monochrome #landscape #ocean #beach #bwphotography #art #artphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #C330 #tonality #grayscale #developing #northern #Scotland
Sandy beach at Aberdeen, Scotland.
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Aircraft gills.

#photography #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #art #film #filmphotography #mediumformat #Mamiya #aircraft #museum #southwest #Scotland
Ventillation slots in fuselage of military aircraft, showing construction rivets.
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Fences.

#photography #monochrome #bw #art #mediumformat #film #Mamiya #resolution #grayscale #tonality #artphotography #fineartphotography #bwphotography #filmphotography
A leafless beech tree stands alone on a hill divided up by a variety of makeshift wooden fences. (c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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White Cadillac tail.

#photography #bw #bwphotography #monochrome #film #35mm #filmphotography #design #car #automobile #tonality #grayscale #composition #framing #1950s #midcentury #Dumfries #southwest #Scotland
View from rear of a 1950s Cadillac, showing the passenger side, tailfin, rear lights and chrome bumper. (c) Sean F. Johnston 2015
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Church cellar grates

#photography #monochrome #tonality #bw #monochrome #mediumformat #film #filmphotography #bwphotography #art #artphotography #symmetry #repetition #pattern #southwest #Scotland
Iron grate with flaking paint, cast in a pattern of perpendicular stripes. Cast iron grate with flaking paint, cast in a pattern of closely-spaced bars.
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Weir current, river Nith.

#photography #Fuji #X30 #bw #monochrome #art #square #artphotography #composition #water #flow #current #contrast #bwphotography #Dumfries #southwest#Scotland
View of rapidly flowing water over a weir, with placid water above and churning water flowing over gap in stone weir.
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Drain, Wilmington, Delaware.

#photography #bw #monochrome #art #artphotography #pattern #symmetry #symmetrical #graphic #linear #steel #cast #bwphotography #film #35mm #bwphotography
Steel drain cover. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Galway shadows
#photography #bw #monochrome #film #35mm #developing #scanning #bwphotography #art #artphotography #filmphotography #fineart #Galway #Ireland
View of a building entrance surmounted by a wood railing, which casts complex shadows onto the entrance walls. (c) 2010 Sean F. Johnston
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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#photography #bw #art #monochrome #bwphotography #artphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #TLR #grayscale #tonality #composition #stilllife #naturemorte #commercial #fishing #Kirkcudbright #pier #dock #southwest #Scotland
Pile of various fishing nets on pier at Kirkcudbright docks. (c) 2011 Sean F. Johnston
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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#photography #grayscale #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #art #Fuji #X30 #artphotography #composition #tonality #southwest #Scotland #Solway #Nith
Mud flats at River Nith / Solway Firth in southwest Scotland., showing deep lines left by tide.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Walkway detail.

#photography #filmphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #art #artphotography #composition #detail #texture #shadow #southwest #Scotland
Detail of a wooden walkway showing slats, chicken-wire covering, picket gate and shadows from sunlight. (c) 2012 Sean F. Johnston
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Graveyard hinge detail

#photography #bw #monochrome #texture #wood #iron #door #art #artphotography #filmphotography #film
#mediumformat #bwphotography
Detail of overlapping wood joints and iron hinge plate on an exterior door in a cemetery. (c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Parasail at Powfoot

#photography #bw #monochrome #film #35mm #developing #scanning #filmphotography #art #artphotography #composition #bwphotography #Solway #Firth #Powfoot #southwest #Scotland
Man standing in shallow water at beach edge of Solway Firth controlling a parasail. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Guitar cover of Take Five, by Paul Desmond

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#Cooljazz #Brubeck #Desmond #Quartet #Jazz #musicsky #jazzsky #guitar #bass
Take Five (by Paul Desmond, after the Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959)
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November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Venetians.

#photography #bw #film #monochrome #mediumformat #Mamiya #6x6 #light #shadow #artphotography #filmphotography #bwphotography #grayscale #composition
Sunlight streaming through window with raised venetian blind, leaving striped shadows. (c) 2010 Sean F. Johnston
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Rural power pole

#photography #symmetry #art #artphotography #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #filmphotography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #southwest #Scotland
View upwards of a two-masted rural high-tension power pole carrying three lines, and having the mechanical fixtures symmetrically positioned. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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West Cluden farm, 2017.

#photography #Fuji #X30 #colour #architecture #rural #agriculture #farm #corrugated #utility #pole #southwest #Scotland
A row of buildings beside a farm road, punctuated by a utility pole supporting four wires at right angles. The walls of the farm buildings are breeze block concrete and corrugated metal, painted red, grey and dull orange.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Barns, West Cluden, Scotland.

#photography #X30 #Fuji #artphotography #art #colour #pattern #texture #composition #Cluden #southern #Scotland
Row of barns along farm road. breeze-block walls, painted white; corrugated metal roofs, painted red; wooden barn doors, painted red. (c) Sean F. Johnston 2017
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Wet season.

#photography #bw #monochrome #bnw #reflection #filmphotography #film #mediumformat #artphotography #art #landscape #Mamiya #rural #farm #road #southwest #Scotland
View down an unpaved farmroad flooded by rain, reflecting bare trees in the water. (c) 2013 Sean F. Johnston
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Rural power line.

#photography #bw #monochrome #art #filmphotography #mediumformat #Mamiya #bwphotography #film #6x6 #artphotography #electricity #POV #southwest #Scotland
Upward view of a two-pole powerline structure carrying three conductors, associated insulators and shunts. (c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Bronze war memorial by Welsh sculptor Henry Price, erected 1922 in Maxwelltown, Dumfries, Scotland.

#photography #Fuji #X30 #yellowfilter #monochrome #bw #art #artphotography #sacrifice #why #war #town #losses #Maxwelltown #Dumfries #Scotland
War memorial, Maxelltown, Dumfries, Scotland. Bronze soldier on granite plinth, with spread arms and face upraised. (c) 2018 Sean F. Johnston
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Maxwelltown war memorial by Henry Price (1872-1922), and its unveiling in 1922.

#photography #warmemorial #statue #bronze #bw #monochrome #film #grayscale #poignant #Maxwelltown #Dumfries #DumfriesandGalloway #southwest #Scotland
Bronze figure of a solder with legs bent and arms upraised. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston Bronze figure of a soldier from the front, with arms upraised and palms open. (c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston Unveiling of war memorial at Maxwelltown, 4 June 1922, with a large number of people crowded around the site.
November 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Church steps.

#photography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #tlr #250mm #dusk #snow #filmphotography #bwphotography #artphotography #stone #church #tower #contrast #southwest #Scotland
Dimly lit stone walls and external stairway to a church tower, covered in snow. (c) Sean F. Johnston
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Farm tractor, 2008

#photography #bw #monochrome #gradation #shadow #chiaroscuro #contrast #machine #organic #disorienting #agriculture #farming #engine #metal #Dora #Decatur #Illinois
Organic-looking machine - a close-up of a tractor tread and metal supports.
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM