Under the Montlake bridge, Seattle. Would have liked to take a film picture but I have one shot left and I'm saving it for a streetcar. Next time.

Having another go at this. I did not have a tripod or anything last time I was in town. Also it was raining. #kodakbrownie

I think I'm riding #SoundTransit light rail illegally, though not on purpose. I installed a virtual #OrcaCard on my phone while hoofing it across SeaTac, was looking for a scanner at the entrance to the station, but didn't send a one. Went up to the platform […] [Original post on sfba.social]

An intersection in #pescadero. Slightly cropped. There was a lot more pavement in the foreground. #kodakbrownie

I tried to take a picture of a sunset. #kodakbrownie.

Two #kodakbrownie pictures of a half-sunken tugboat in the #halfmoonbay harbor. I thought that squiggly line in the 1st picture must be a hair on my scanner, but it's really there as a white line in the negative. Can't explain it!

Latest #KodakBrownie pictures. I've been trying to take some pictures during sunset. I think pushing it a little farther into twilight might be good. (Taking pictures actually at night is fun and an interesting challenge, but I have a theory that if there is […] [Original post on sfba.social]

First time I've ever seen this. (In fairness, #SFBART has a lot of elevators).

Here's another article: https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikipedia-microsoft-meta-perplexity-ai-training-wikimedia-foundation If this is a way to get companies to actually pay for what they were just taking for free, maybe not so bad? Do you think it will distort the actual content of […]

Had to redo some of my overhead, which was tricky, but working again. Whew! #modeltrolley #modeltram #ncat #nscale #nscaletraction

Protesting this morning in #redwoodcityca. Can't see in this view, but large crowds on all 4 corners of this busy intersection. I just wanted a picture with the frog.

Figuring out some tricks, getting a little more efficient with the enlarger. #darkroom

Nice day to watch the Truckee Depot traincam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrxjlYd9kPg #truckeeca

I admit I love cowboy poetry! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/04/cowboy-poetry-new-generation

It's going to be a rude shock to my cat next Tuesday when work and school starts up again, and the house is empty during the day.... he's going to have to actually walk around the house to get to the back door (that I leave open for him) to get in, instead of just meowing at the front door.

Ringing in the new year--and hoping 2026 is a "William Tell Overture played on Xylophone recorded on Edison Cylinder" kinda year.

Lightproofed the bathroom/home #darkroom and made prints during the daytime.

#cornishlanguage / #kernewek, #16mm, and horror? You bet I'm in! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/8fde137956ae65c4a725400a541967f4

#kodakbrownie picture of a bunker on #devilsslide, CA Hwy 1. Originally this was mostly underground but the soil has eroded away, and eventually it's going to fall into the ocean. I wanted to spend more time composing a shot, but it was starting to rain, and there was a sheer cliff right behind me!

#KodakBrownie picture of an #SFMuni #FLine PCC streetcar on a rainy night (Xmas Eve, actually). The angle is kind of low because there wasn't anything handy to prop the camera on, and I didn't want to mess with a tripod when it was starting to rain again, so I […] [Original post on sfba.social]

#kodakbrownie pictures from #BernalHeights, SF, my old neighborhood. #120film #bernalrock

The rain cleared up in time for @sfcriticalmass and we had a good ride tonight.

The Bible says they walked to Bethlehem, but not in my house. (No passenger car, so maybe Mary & Joseph hoboed it in that open boxcar).

If you want to make #Glühwein and not get sloshed (or let a kid try some) try half wine and half Pom Wonderful.

Feeling full of Christmas spirit now!

Put together a treeish sort of thing from pine (maybe redwood?) branches that had been pruned in a county park (overhanging a trail probably).

Dr Comics and Mr Games. This is a great shop! #oaklandca/#Oakland.

I've been seeing these stickers and *thinking* that's what it looked like.... someone else had that idea and acted on it.

We had tickets for the symphony, but all of downtown SF is in a huge blackout, and the show's cancelled. Power's on at 16th St and the Roxie is showing The Thing. I think the universe is telling me to see a scary movie.

I took this (#KodakBrownie/#120film) picture from the inside of a tunnel. The first image is a scan from negative; the scanner usually quite helpfully adjusts levels and brings out contrast in ways that are hard to reproduce in actual printmaking. My prints (I […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Came down to #redwoodcity #Caltrain this morning and saw this. I guess the city prefers no station at all to the possibility of unhoused folks sleeping in it. Sheesh. Just in time for the rainy season, too (when I might actually want to go in there).

I'm looking for info on #oakland #criticalmass, but not finding much online, and actually some of what I see is conflicting. I *think* it happens on the first Friday of the month (most CM's happen on the last Friday, but making it a different day than @sfcriticalmass is cool so you can do both) […]

As promised, over the past few days I've been scouting for accounts on several Mastodon and Pixelfed servers related to #AltProcess photography & print making, in the hope to get more insights into each others' work/creations/experiences, successes & failures etc. Obviously the list below (in […]

An advantage of biking is you find interesting stuff people have dumped. OK this was heavy enough I had to get it later with a car, but still counts for purposes of finding it. I think this came out of a small glass-top end table, so it's heavy and strong. I can […] [Original post on sfba.social]

There's always interesting things on display at San Jose's MLK library. I'm really going to need to go check this one out. https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/silicon-alleys-san-jose-history-gary-singh-interstate-280/

From the eastern edge of #GoldenGatePark. #kodakbrownie #sfmuni

Mostly I like to post pictures that came out well. This one I'd like to do over again. Mostly I should have just aimed lower. But it's interesting, too. The streetcar at the bottom is warped. This is something that is kind of expected with the Brownie's simple […] [Original post on sfba.social]

#Milpitas #SFBART station, taken with a #KodakBrownie.

Latest negs look good, at least going by my favorite #blackandwhite subject. #kodakbrownie

Entrance of the Chabot Space Museum, #OaklandCA. Taken with a #kodakbrownie; in the background a fellow-photographer is using a fancier Yashica-D.

What better subject for #bnw phogography than my #bnw cat Chompsky? (#kodakbrownie with close-up attachment so it can focus at approx 3 ft). #tuxedocat

Snapped on a #kodakbrownie in a local Japanese restaurant, while waiting for a to-go bento box order. (This is Yama Sushi in #belmontca, and I do recommend them).

I visited the fabulous #orindatheater a few weeks ago for the SF #silentfilm festival. I love taking pictures of Theater marquees. I need to come back around twilight sometime, which is sort of the optimal condition for this sort of thing. #kodakbrownie

We visited the National Automobile Museum in #RenoNV. They have a Ghostbusters "Ecto-1" car, which was in their shop, so I couldn't get quite as close as I wanted, but maybe it makes for a more interesting picture this way. #kodakbrownie

Scenes from tonight's @sfcriticalmass ride.

Bundled up and riding #Caltrain to @sfcriticalmass

My tip for anyone else who might be baking something: however much cinnamon the recipe says, double it. Nobody has ever complained I used too much cinnamon!

I've been doing the #darkroom stuff with kid #2 because he's the one still at home. Kid #1 is home for a holiday visit; gave her a box camera and film when we met at the airport, and 2 days later we've got some prints.

The more “AI” stuff is pushed the less I want to work in tech at all. Everything is “this is shit, but it is not shit enough to change anything”, and that just doesn’t work with my desire to do good quality, sustainable work that works for everyone – and especially for disabled people. I’m […]

#wigwag!