Prague, 1997 The pedestal for a massive statue of Stalin that was blown up in 1962 as a result of the de-Stalinization reforms. Today there is a giant metronome where the statue once stood. A plaque at the base reads "In time, all things pass." #prague #blackandwhitephotography #filmphotography

Lamp Post and Mt. Shasta Weed, California #shasta #mtshasta #volcano #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #landscapephotography

It's always a good day when a batch of processed film comes back from the lab! In this case, 7 rolls of medium format B&W: 5 rolls from my pinhole camera, 1 from a Lubitel, & 1 roll that was found in an old Voigtländer twin lens reflex that was given to me. #filmphotography #analogphotography

Finding the perfect placement for a tripod in challenging, uneven terrain is a very satisfying thing. Taken earlier this week at Weston Beach at Point Lobos, taking advantage of low tide for some new pinhole photographs. #pinholephotography #pinhole #filmphotography #pointlobos #tidepools

Inverted Church, 2016 One for #ThrowbackThursday from my "Hollywood Boulevard" series: A large installation promoting the premiere of the series "Preacher", based on the cult comic series of the same name. #blackandwhitephotography #surreal #hollywoodboulevard #hollywood #preacher #church

Fishing boat and Farallon Islands, San Francisco I made a quick trip down to San Francisco on Wednesday. It was a fine day for distant views looking out to sea. The Farallons are about 30 miles from the coast. #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #seascape #sanfrancisco

Sign in a used bookstore, San Francisco #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #signs #aliens #mysteries

Construction work imitates nature... Miami Beach, 2024 #blackandwhitephotography

Adobe Learn recently published a new #Photoshop #tutorial I created on the Select People feature for the Object Selection tool. As with many of the Learn tutorials, this video includes the demo image as a downloadable asset. Follow the link to check it out! www.adobe.com/learn/photos...

For those enduring the uncomfortable heat of a hot summer day, here's a bit of winter to cool your mind: a view from Northern Iceland of frozen Lake Mývatn and the surrounding volcanic landscape. #Iceland #Myvatn #landscapephotography #winter

Variety Pack…how could I resist? One negative in the batch made the entire group worth it. #negatives #vintagenegatives #filmphotography #analog #mediumformatfilm

A new image taken yesterday for my "International Terminal" series of in-camera double exposures. You can see more from this series, and read a bit more about the process of making the images, at the link below: seanduggan.com/double-expos... #doubleexposure #blackandwhitephotography

Great turnout yesterday afternoon for the peaceful No Kings event in Truckee, California! This mountain town showed up in a big way for Democracy, Freedom, and Justice. #NoKings #Truckee

West London Mission, 1986 Possibly in Hyde Park Revisiting a camera scan; Tri-X

A recent in-camera double exposure from my “International Terminal” series. More at my website (link in profile). #doubleexposure #blackandwhite #blackanndwhitephotography #travel

Some interesting artifacts, books, artwork, furniture and film memorabilia in the upcoming David Lynch Collection Auction, but this item immediately caught my eye. An immensely practical item for a messy art studio. #DavidLynch www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/142...

Two in-camera double exposures from my series "International Terminal", taken at #SFO yesterday. Follow the link to see more of the series at my website: seanduggan.com/double-expos... #doubleexposure #blackandwhitephotography #airport #travel

Wedding dress window display #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite

Tower Theatre Sacramento, California #movietheaters #cinemas #sacramento #towertheatre #lightroommobile

Miami Morning When you arrive at your Miami Beach hotel before dawn after a red-eye flight from the west coast and the beach is just across the street, it's time to go and look for photographs as the sun comes up. From last October when I was in #Miami for Adobe MAX. #sunrise

On today's To Do List: Clean up all the open browser tabs... #firstworldproblem

Stacked Chairs

#Overheard in an SF bookstore – 3 young teen girls trying to outdo each other in expressing how much they love #JaneAusten. After escalating declarations of adoration, one remarked to another: "I feel like you're trying to be artsy or something, or cool, or classic, but it's not really working."

The Microscope, 2012
 Pinhole photograph on 120 film. From the series “Artifacts of an Uncertain Origin”, a long term project that I’ve been working on since 2006. You can see a portion of the full series at my web site (link in my profile). #blackandwhitephotography #pinhole #landscape #surreal

Paintball Park Oroville, California, 2021 #blackandwhitephotography #zombies

Airport Motel South San Francisco, 2005 Meandering through the image archive for a recent project unearthed several images from the past that I decided to revisit. This is one of them. #newtopographics #motel #diptych

Lubitel 166B We have about 6 days of rain coming our way starting tomorrow. Indoor activity agenda for the weekend: making camera scans of some Lubitel negatives. #filmphotography #Lubitel #analogphotography

12:45 PM, Somewhere in the Hudson Valley, New York (2005) #Photographers ... As we close out the first day of #DaylightSavings time, don't forget to check that the #time on your cameras is correct.

The fact that there might be a conclave so close to a movie about one has really motivated me to finish my screenplay "The Tech CEO Who Died of Diarrhea So Explosive The Coroner Said He Had No Lower Back to Speak Of"

Shipwreck, 2011 Islamorada, Florida Keys Another in the series of "pictures I came across while searching for another photo". Which do you prefer? The decision may be determined by other photos that this image may be presented with. #shipwreck #islamorada #florida #swimmingpool

I've been trying out the new @fotoapp.co for the past several months while it was in beta (iOS and Android only at the moment), and I like it a lot. No algorithms, no forced cropping, no videos, and no ads...just photography! You can find me there @seanduggan.

Caution... Taken yesterday while on a walk along Wolf Creek in Grass Valley, California. Edge blur goodness courtesy of a Lensbaby Trio 28mm (3 different lenses on a rotating turret mount; this was the Velvet lens). #blackandwhitephotography #sonya7riii #CAUTION #bridge

The well-dressed faceless child

Like dogs? Like movies? Well here you go - How Hollywood turned our perfectly wonderful dogs into cinema villains… “Horror Dogs: Man’s Beat Friend as Movie Monster” - now on sale through McFarland! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/horr...

Dark Days (Photographic digital #composite w/ AI-generated elements) The landscape is one of my images & the ravens are also from one of my photos. The woman and child, smoke plumes, & billboard were generated in Midjourney. The billboard is a composite of multiple AI-generated elements. #dystopian

It's a tracing-powerlines-with-the-Pen-tool type of Sunday... #photoshop #compositing

Two #ravens hanging out at the Northern Nevada Railway Museum in Ely, #Nevada before heading over to join the scene in a composite I'm currently working on.

Some good news on the home front after a truly depressing week of national news...something new to unpack today! #photography #BenQ

Bridge to Asia I was going through older images this evening and this one caught my eye. I think it may fit into a series that's been percolating on the back burner for a few years. #blackandwhitephotography #filmnoir #Lynchian

The Reading Room, 2015 iPhone composite A blend of the forest behind our house, and one of my favorite bookstores, @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in San Francisco. #composite #surreal #surrealism #dreams #bookstore #reading

Vacuum in an abandoned prison chapel, 2007 Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rearranging the office closet late on a Saturday night...1:40am: it's already late, but opening any of these is likely to result in a much later night! Update... too late! #workprints #photography #analogphotography #darkroom #blastfromthepast #archives

Bialetti Moka Pot with custom handle 2011 (iPhone 4) A blast from the past from my first iPhone camera. I hear that these make a damn fine cup of coffee. #coffee #damnfinecoffee

January 2025 as a meme

FYI... "David Lynch: The Art Life" is currently FREE to watch on The Criterion Channel. www.criterionchannel.com/david-lynch-... #DavidLynch #TheArtLife #CriterionChannel

Farewell to David Lynch — painter, filmmaker, surrealist, & fellow South Jr. High School alumnus. I always admired his dedication to pursuing the art life. "I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense." —David Lynch. Photo by: Robert Maxwell

Olivia Wendover, Utah #landscape #photography #desert

While removing film found in an old camera, the end of the paper backing ripped off. I liked how it looked on a white background. The film was removed without being exposed (why I needed the changing bag shown in my previous post). #mediumformat #filmphotography #vintagecamera #VerichromePan

Happiness is finding the film changing bag in your office closet, even though you haven't used it in several months. #analogphotography #filmphotography #TLR

A relic from my #projectionist days: This is from a Century projector & was used for adjusting the shutter timing to optimize image quality on screen during projection. These projectors had similar red knobs of varying sizes for adjusting focus and framing.