Are there any local #sfba Starbucks on strike where I can show up and show solidarity by not buying coffee?

(T)acos Los Gemelos, #RedwoodCity. Slightly cropped to trim a bit of the roof of my car (which seemed like the most convenient place to put the camera) from the bottom. At the time I was a bit annoyed with the people who decided to drive off during my exposure […] [Original post on sfba.social]

This was set up for Veteran's Day. #kodakbrownie

Taken from the deck of #sfmoma. #kodakbrownie #120film

Negatives from Day of the Dead photo trip look good #darkroom

The #orinda Theater. The SF #silentfilm festival will be here in a few days. I'm going and it'll be my first visit to this fabulous looking theater. The Orinda #SFBART station is s block away and that'd his we got home.

The back exit from the Sibley Volcanic Region in the #oakland hills. This trail zigs and zags down to #orinda. You end up in a new (autocentric and dull) development in the hills. A fellow biker showed us an unofficial escape route via a hard to see trail. It's next to a street called "Frog Leap".

A labyrinth in a volcano, and Mt Diablo (these both sound like they should be in a #zelda game).

I've been waiting a long time to ride this bus. It was cancelled during the pandemic and was just reinstated this year. It goes to the top of a hill with a lot of scenic downhill bike routes. #ACTransit

I bought this film and now I just need a good subject for B&W photography. Any ideas?

#darkroom #doubleexposure made by stacking up a "negative sandwich". #mediumformat #contactprint #spookydoubleexposure

A #kodakbrownie picture of an #sfmuni streetcar motorman raising a trolley pole to the wire.

Some more attempts at making a #spookydoubleexposure. Boo!

What better way to end a Halloween ride than to get on #Caltrain at 22nd St.

Just back from my first Halloween #criticalmass . Loads of fun! I rode as Link, my son was Tron. @sfcriticalmass

Spent my lunchtime developing film because I want to see my spooky pics on Halloween, dammit! #kodakbrownie #darkroom #spookydoubleexposure

Any thoughts on how one might wear elf ears without losing them while out doing something active like biking? Asking for a friend.

Thanks to an #MSAzure outtage, I decided to take a walk at the perfect time to see some interesting #SFMuni action; a PCC streetcar (car 1056, painted for #KansasCity) was turning around on the 11th St Wye. This recreated a scene I used to see back in the […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Small #darkroom disaster here. When I turned the Paterson tank over to drain the developer, the lid came off! Fortunately only the two outermost frames were affected. Some words were uttered of a sort I'm always telling my kids not to say so often... This was at the #halfmoonbay pumpkin weigh-off.

An alley in Niles, CA. Across the street from @Essanay. The non-perpendicularity here is partly an effect of the #kodakbrownie lens, and partly how the buildings actually are.

Another try at #HandTinting The main different from the previous attempts is penciling the tips of trees post-wash, so they stay fine. I should try this on an enlargement instead of a tiny contact print. And maybe other coloring types (like plain old markers? […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Since the Fediverse observes #caturday. #kodakbrownie #filmisnotdead

Two attempts at #SpookyDoubleExposures Ok for a proof of concept. More of the shrubbery around the ghost showed up than I expected. Also, I need to keep the angle more in mind so the ghost will look like it's somewhere logical. At least with home development I […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Hey #filmphotography folks. How about we celebrate the season with some #spookydoubleexposures! I'm going to start by trying to overlay this silly ghost onto things.

#Felon47 #Krasnov #LowIQIndividual #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #BonespurWarrior #NoKings

All set for another go at #HandTinting. The Ilfort matt(e) paper I'm using does *not* want to lie flat, so I'm recycling a trick I used for cyanotypes, clamping the negative down to the paper between a piece of plywood and plexiglass. Also figured out that if you […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Picked up the Sunday #SFChronicle for the job listings. They seem to have missed the big story. (Honestly I'm not sure if this is an intentional blackout or just a newspaper downsizing to the point that they wrap up work on the Sunday paper by 5pm Friday and […] [Original post on sfba.social]

At our local #nokings protest.

Odd coincidence. I've been listening to old records (because I have waaay to many and need to decide which to keep). Just heard "New Moon", songs from an Operetta, turned into a movie, and a few minutes later randomly happened to be reading about the film. I […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Some better views of the scratchbuilt interior of the N-gauge switching house. A table and chair with scattered papers and a mug of coffee. Plus a set of drawers and some clocks and scattered boxes. And a fireplace to match the existing chimney. #ngauge #modeltrains #switchinghouse #drh

Tried hand tinting some photo prints. I used watercolor pencils. In the first/left version I tried drawing pretty precisely, in the right/second version I went for a more cartoony solid-fill look. I think the 2nd way works better. I think this works best with […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Nice AI you got there. I should probably change my name on LinkdIn to '; drop table candidates;

Made some contact prints (these are all 6x6cm or 6x9cm; some may look like enlargements, but that's just because I cut smaller pieces of paper). The last picture is intentionally printed light because I want to try hand-tinting (and Wikipedia says you should do that).

Some more of my kid's film pictures. Taken on #BernalHeights, SF. #believeinfilm

It's a fact of life, if you try to do anything in this world, somebody's going to go complain about it. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sfmta-geary-project-improvement-construction-21095016.php

A building with an ornate fire escape. On Valencia St, SF. It had some gold accents and blue trim so I used a yellow filter to make them contrast a bit better. The effect isn't that dramatic, but since I didn't take a "without" shot for comparison, who knows […] [Original post on sfba.social]

The "M Stop Deli", San Francisco. I think I can get a better picture than this. I'll have to go back. And I need to go back when I'm hungry because their sandwich menu looks pretty good. #kodakbrownie #sfmuni

Some pictures with people in them. At the SF Farmer's Market (which seems to happen on Wednesday, between the main library and the Asian Art Museum (in the former library building). #KodakBrownie Somehow, all this time I've tried lots of different films but never […] [Original post on sfba.social]

From a nighttime walk around downtown SF, with a #kodakbrownie I like the elevantor ghosts in the 2nd picture. #filmisnotdead #120film

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/how-the-gaza-ceasefire-deal-was-done-donald-trump Worth reading, even if you don't exactly agree. The US always had the leverage to make this stop. In that light I would not call a negotiated ceasefire after two years of murder a "success".

New phone and I guess that means a pleasant evening uninstalling apps I never asked for. FB is definitely the first to go.

It's such a relief when a job listing doesn't ask for a cover letter. All the reasons you might want to hire me are in my resume. And obviously I think I'm smart and deserve this job or I wouldn't bother applying. So let's save me the trouble of writing some BS and you the trouble of reading it.

Anyone want a free bike? Looks like my neighbors are doing a big cleanup and they put 3 bikes out with the trash. Nothing special, but with a little cleaning and oiling up, someone could ride them. I'm in #RedwoodCity. I live on "E" Street near the cross-street […] [Original post on sfba.social]

This is the M-Stop Deli, along (duh) the #sfmuni M Line. Menu looks great, I had unfortunately already had lunch. Will be back. I love the Boeing/Vertol LRV Mural. Hung out and got a film picture with a train (Siemens), we'll see how it comes out. https://mstopdeli.com/menu

Scanned some of my #SFMuni Heritage Weekend negatives. When I do this, I'm often a little disappointed at first because blown up to the size of a maximized window, the deficiencies of simple old cameras stand out. But shrunken down, they seem pretty nice. A phone […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Muni negs! I got so impatient to see these I took a picture of some dramatic clouds today just to finish the roll. #sfmuni #believeinfilm #120film #Trolley #tram #blackpool #ferrybuilding

More angles of the N-gauge train shed. I even had to touch up a couple of the screen-printed windows around the back. #ngauge #trainshed #modeltrains #drh

The #scvta has a bus patriotically wrapped to honor veterans. It's nice. Though it ends up looking like a #SamTrans bus.

I didn't know she was lit up at night.

Also while riding round the City tonight: fun chat with a #sfmuni #trolleybus driver rewiring her poles after they didn't track through the hairpin turn at Market & Clayton. (Back in trolley days, streetcars actually made a switchback right there).