Pooch. #Charmera

Holiday Spirit #Charmera

Laura’s new #Charmera, as seen by my old one.

Tree Scan This is the scan of the negative used to make the Kallitype I posted earlier. It’s got that lith film look. Black and white doesn’t mean there has to be gray. Contax IIIa, Kodak Kodalith 6556, D-19 high contrast developer. #BelieveInFilm

Amazing!! 💚❤️

Tree Almost 50 years ago, this was our Christmas tree. My folks got a live tree for a change, and planted it after Christmas. It has taken over this half of the front yard, swallowed up the power and phone lines, killed all the grass underneath […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]

Putin claimed to have conquered Kupyansk

Honestly, Trump's decision to offer pardons for $250,000 is his biggest move to reduce prices.

Decked Halls #Charmera

Spent the day making Kallitypes. I wasn’t happy with the ones I made on Monday, so I tried reprinting them, plus one new image. First two attempts were disappointing, but the third worked. Fourth and fifth prints were reprints of the first two attempts. Wound up happy with all three on the end.

My wife’s present for me is coming from Mexico. It has made it to San Antonio, TX. My present for my wife is coming from China, but shipped within the U.S. from Richmond, and is somehow also in San Antonio now. Maybe they can meet up and find their way here (not likely; one’s with UPS and one w/USPS

An important point that needs to be made on the AEI website. The best deal that the Trump administration is willing to offer Ukraine is still an abomination. Trump has so warped expectations that too many can’t admit this. @kschake.bsky.social www.aei.org/articles/tru...

Spinsters Only The parking lot at Spinster Abbot’s is almost as amusing as the front of the store. Pentax 17, Fujifilm F-64D, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm #halfframe

South Beach Arcade Half Price Games 2:00PM - 4:00PM. Leica R4, Adox Scala 50, Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm

Pumpkin People dump stuff on our property like rotting pumpkins. Contax IIIa, Kodak Plus-X (expired late 1990s), D-19 high contrast developer. #BelieveInFilm

The US is now censoring those whom our officials have deemed ideological enemies in the name of fighting "censorship." The rich irony would be almost humorous if the end goal wasn't so sinister. This is an astonishingly un-American decree.

Toes #Charmera

Currently reading this book. Useful information about how to safely deal with chemicals involved in photography.

FFS, didn’t anybody else watch this documentary 5 years ago? It’s all there. Believe the victims. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...

Bridge is acting up again, not including a photo from Pixelfed. Direct link: https://pixelfed.thereisnocat.com/p/thereisnocat/909144058101249874

"Shchedryk is not just music, it is a story of resistance. Its composer was murdered, its Paris premiere nearly sabotaged by Russian agents, and today, amid a war that seeks to erase Ukrainian culture, Shchedryk is still played around the world," Mariana Hirniak, a journalist, in this op-ed.

Unprotected Beach Not many beachgoers at this time of year in New Jersey anyway. Leica R4, Adox Scala 50, Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm

Fallen Trees More snow. Contax IIIa, Kodak Plus-X (expired late 1990s), D-19 high contrast developer. #BelieveInFilm

Self portrait #Charmera

If you’ve been paying attention, there’s not a lot in this report that new or surprising, but the impact of having the former prisoners on screen describing their time in our concentration camp is profound. Fuck CBS. Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite are spinning in their graves.

Classic surrogate international broadcasting. Television Free America.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Two more kallitypes, drying in the shower.

Just realized D Boon and Joe Strummer died on the same day, 17 years apart

My totally speculative theory on CBS is that when the WH saw the story, someone called an Ellison, who called Bari Weiss in a panic over the Warner Bros. bid, ordered her to kill it Only a non-journalist (Ellison) would be too dumb not to understand killing the story just made things 100X worse

The adults in charge at that school fucked up. And the adults who are pushing "A.i." on children every day in this fallen world are villains who should be shunned wherever they go. #AbolishAi

Clarence Clemons One of the all time greats is honored with a bench in Point Pleasant Beach. Leica R4, Adox Scala 50, Rodinal 1:50. #BelieveInFilm

Trudy Rubin tears Trump a new one over his bullshit approach to Ukraine (“peace" plan my ass) in her latest in the Philadelphia Inquirer. https://share.inquirer.com/RCmG6D

National Geographic named “In the Arms of Family” among its top photos of 2025. Shot by Anastasia Taylor Lind it shows Olha Grinik holding her nephew Tymofii whose father serves in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The family fled their home near Avdiivka captured by Russian forces. Photo: @anastasiatl

Shrubbery Covered in snow. Contax IIIa, Kodak Plus-X (expired late 1990s), D-19 high contrast developer. #BelieveInFilm

Buc-ee After getting our tire patched and getting lunch, we hit the road again. Laura had discovered Buc-ee’s on a trip a year or two ago to Charleston with friends, and asks me to stop there whenever possible. This was the first of five Buc-ee’s […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]

Package from Reflx Lab came today. If you’re looking for 220 film, they’re selling respooled Agfa Aviphot 200 in the format.

More #Charmera shots from our tintype shoot at Penumbra Foundation on Friday.

As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves

Last week, I met with @aijenpoo.bsky.social, President of @domesticworkers.bsky.social and co-founder of @caringacross.org, to talk about my caregiving journey and how we can work together to support caregivers across this country. 1/2

Fallen We have a lot of trees on our property. We have a lot of fallen trees as well. This one is covered in snow. Contax IIIa, Kodak Plus-X (expired late 1990s), D-19 developer. #BelieveInFilm

160 This building in Vilano Beach seems to be similar to the ruin across the street, but in much better shape. Leica R4, Silberra Color 160, ECN-2 development. #BelieveInFilm

Back in the days before digital frequency readout and podcasts, radio stations used to play a distinctive melody, called an interval signal, before their broadcasts to help listeners tune in. An artist has created an exhibition of interpretations of some of these melodies https://intervalsignals.it

DQ Grill & Chill We got a flat tire when we were driving to Florida last month. We found a tire store that was open on Sunday (a rarity) and they patched the tire. It was lunch time when they finished, so before hitting the road again, we got some […] [Original post on pixelfed.thereisnocat.com]

FPP order shipped later, but because they’re local, showed up first, before the order from Freestyle.

Scenes from inside the studio at Penumbra Foundation. #Charmera

Ramp The ramp is a little treacherous in the snow. Contax IIIa, Kodak Plus-X (expired late 1990s), D-19 high contrast developer. #BelieveInFilm

It’s pictures. The developer, and the results. Part of this roll was shot last weekend when we went to a microbrewery in Brooklyn to celebrate my friend @stribs.bsky.social ‘s new book, Designing for Privacy, so developing it in beer seemed only appropriate.

Open This sign outside A Coastal Home caught my eye. Hasselblad 500cm, Shanghai GP3 100 (220), Divided D-76. #BelieveInFilm

This is probably the best recommendation I can think of for the Kodak #Charmera; Petapixel hates it. https://petapixel.com/2025/12/20/kodak-charmera-review-reto-makes-a-retro-redo/