quick glimpse into my brain

the US: we’re making political positions paid positions, so that the underclass can participate in politics without being priced out. Seattle: cool, we love this cool girl and want her to be mayor. NYT: did you hear she can’t even pay to take care of her kids? she can’t be allowed to govern

I understand the benefits perfectly, and they make sense, but platform boarding doors for metro systems are my worst nightmare. Removing the rush of air and unobstructed view of a train arriving in a station is an unimaginable loss of romantic feeling and metaphor from society. Don’t @ me about it.

>looking for a new photography location >ask my friend if their location is portra or hp5 >she doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is portra and what is hp5 >she laughs and says "it's a good location ma'am" >go there >it's hp5

i need to do more night photography

transgender is like a ferrari i like ferrari

welp, i can’t say “man the president blows” without it meaning something else now

OH: “it’s a Poob for Klarna”

car chase? on the 405? what year is it

i s2g this better hold. i need to live in a city whose mayor doesn’t suck ass

what if and hear me out we didn’t make the most vulnerable people in this country suffer. what if we tried to help people. maybe? or at least grow a fucking spine

I will document the Seattle Light Rail, one station at a time

it’s almost as if “the people should starve” right before the election ***may*** not have been a winning strategy.

i woke up with a migraine and today is the perfect “stay in and cuddle my cat” weather. i still walked up the hill to drop my ballot off. if i can, you can too. i know there’s already 1000 “go vote” posts, but fascists are actively trying to strip the right to vote. don’t let them win.

i know Seattle’s home bc of how good it feels to come back

Panic! in the Window Seat

You know you fucked up when you have @theneedling.com using real news as their image…

it is so weird to have friends and partners share stories like “oh my family came over 50 years after the Mayflower” meanwhile i’m over here like “oh my dad crawled through a sewer in TJ a few decades back to get here”

i have traveled to the midwest and entered the mythical “Menards” and folks. i have in fact saved big money

just remembering that the “first they came for” poem was not written by a passive observer, but by a fervent supporter of the nazi regime. a person who actively supported their oppression, until that oppression was turned on him. seems relevant for some reason

the absolute self control required for me to not start counting along to prog metal while on a flight no one wants to hear me trying to figure out odd, constantly changing time signatures. even less so while the loud feel bad sky tube

i miss the desert

this is such a”i cannot be fucking bothered” travel day that i just let TSA X-ray my film

my worst trait is that if i wanna change filmstocks mid roll, i just yank the roll out and say “i’ll finish it later” before never touching it. anyways this roll i just deved had photos from a trip i took a year ago

i’m so curious how the spam accounts find me. like cool, inflate my follower number and my ego. but how did you stumble across the transfemme photographer and decide “she’ll wanna buy my essential oils”

it would be really nice if my favorite season didn’t also cause my delayed sleep phase to completely destroy me

ATTN: the recent wave of new bluesky accounts. if you use the word “illegals” to refer to undocumented people I’m going to hit you with my car

i am so glad i have done what i can to make film photography more sustainable for me. right now, i can spool up BW film, shoot it, and dev it, without spending a single dollar. idk how id be able to keep shooting if i didn’t do my own dev and scan. but also, i enjoy dev work so much

they should invent an Emma that can fall asleep before 4am. that’d be really cool

there’s nothing more Seattle than walking through the rain to go drop off my film at the lab and then grabbing a coffee at the local independent radio station

i finally checked out a beautiful park here and tested out a new lens. i took the light rail to here. i just hopped in a train and got to experience a cool lil slice of forest in the middle of the city. i really needed this

i can’t be assed to fight on the internet with people whose lives are so pathetic that they need to pay a GPU cluster to be their best friend

iff they find height intimidating, an easy 8. if not, like a 3 or 4

This exactly how Black folks feel about the Confederate flag

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

a concert photographer, i am not. but for my first time trying it, and my first time using an on camera flash, i think i did pretty okay.

the last six weeks or so of m's baseball has been some of the most fun baseball i've seen in my life

why did i decide this year was the year i was gonna start caring about baseball again

the fucking AI slop is so impossible to avoid. now, whenever i go to check documentation at work, the page has two buttons for AI shit AND two pop ups both telling me that the button exists and imploring me to click the button to see what’s changed on the page. STOP IT! I AM DOING WORK! QUIT IT!

just deved a roll a shot a few days ago. first time really shooting with a flash. first time shooting a concert in a long time. the negatives look fine but not amazing, but i’m happy to still be pushing my limits 3 years into this hobby

i know i’ve reached a new level of deranged when i start missing LA freeways

reposting so people who are awake at normal human hours can see it

this feels like the first time i've properly nailed this look and i couldn't be more thrilled

after trying, so many times, i have decided that i just can’t do filmstocks with a lot of halation. it doesn’t work for my work. it just doesn’t. i never think “this should would be better with halation”

so, Phoenix II does not like to do night photography. this shot came out okay though

I love metal. That’s it, that’s the post.

i’m gonna start becoming really annoying about telling ppl to clean their phone lenses before taking a photo. no one wants to see your photo with what looks like an inch of vaseline caked on. wipe your god damn lens. it’s a better camera than you think it is WIPE YOUR GOD DAMN LENS

just described framework's business model as "fosswashing" and i think i'm going to stick with that term, actually