Sean Johnston
@seanfjohnston.bsky.social
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🍁 Emeritus prof U. Glasgow, living in rural SW Scotland.
https://tinyurl.com/sfjbooks
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#bw
#bwphotography
#monochrome
#texture
#wood
#shadow
about 14 hours ago
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Bridge arch and farm wall, 2019.
#photography
#bw
#bwphotography
#artphotography
#bridge
#water
#stone
#wall
#shapes
#shades
#greyscale
#optical
#illusion
#interface
#boundary
#oblong
#square
#triangle
#Fuji
2 days ago
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5
0
Graveyard gate, southern Scotland.
#photography
#mediumformat
#film
#bwphotography
#ironwork
#iron
#ornementation
#gate
#silhouette
#churchyard
#cemetery
4 days ago
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6
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Glass wall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009.
#photography
#film
#monochrome
#bw
#bwphotography
#artphotography
#abstract
#artdeco
#1930s
#pattern
#glass
5 days ago
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Water tower, Rantoul, Illinois, 2008.
#photography
#bwphotography
#bw
#film
#mediumformat
#monochrome
#greyscale
#architecture
#viewpoint
#Rodchenko
6 days ago
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Memorial to 'The Second Great War 1939-1945', Keir Mill, southwest Scotland.
#war
#memorial
#Scotland
#photography
#commemoration
#history
#local
#rural
8 days ago
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Local hero:
#gravestone
of Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) and family, reputed inventor of the pedal
#bicycle
.
#Keir
Mill,
#Dumfries
&
#Galloway
,
#Scotland
. One of the more hidden-away
#cemeteries
in the region, but a pleasant find on a sunny early-autumn day.
#invention
#technology
#history
8 days ago
0
4
2
Bellfield farm outbuilding, southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#monochrome
#bwphotography
#film
#mediumformat
#contrast
#rural
#farm
#clear
#sunshine
#yellowfilter
#agriculture
8 days ago
1
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1
Freedom Road (instrumental). Words by poet/activist Langston Hughes and music by Emerson Harper (1942). Recorded by Josh White in 1966 and adapted by Indra Rios-Moore in 2022.
on.soundcloud.com/5OiRHNAFUTrf...
#folk
#protest
#spiritual
#cover
#instrumental
#inspirational
#guitar
#LangstonHughes
loading . . .
Freedom Road (by Langston Hughes, 1944, after Indra Rios-Moore, 2022)
multi-tracked with Audacity
https://soundcloud.com/sfjoh/freedom-road-by-langston-hughes-after-indra-rios-moore
9 days ago
0
4
1
An uncommon (to me) Speckled Wood Butterfly today in a large plowed field now full of knotweed (Redshank).
#Scotland
#southwest
#agriculture
#woodland
#countryside
#hedgerows
#nature
#rural
#photography
11 days ago
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4
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Mediaeval finds: blue
#bead
and
#stained
#glass
near the site of
#Holywood
#Abbey
, southern
#Scotland
.
#FindsFriday
#archaeology
#mediaeval
#glass
#Scotland
#religious
#sites
12 days ago
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2
A rare photo of Clair L. ("Red") Stong (1902-1975), editor of Scientific American's 'Amateur Scientist' column from 1953-75, which inspired generations of amateur scientific equipment-builders and experimenters.
tinyurl.com/Amateur-Scie...
#maker
#makers
#hacking
#amateur
#citizenscientist
14 days ago
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1
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Pheasant feathers.
#photography
#film
#bwphotography
#monovhtomr
#artphotography
#mediumformat
#6x6
#square
#rural
#Scotland
#southwest
#gate
#field
16 days ago
0
9
0
Aluminium barrels, southern
#Scotland
.
#photography
#Fuji
#pattern
18 days ago
0
6
0
Details of early 18c table gravestones with memento mori iconography.
#Caerlaverock
#graveyard
#southern
#Scotland
.
#photography
#cemetery
#gravestones
#mementomori
#skull
#crossbones
#casket
#sandstone
#flying
#heaven
#death
#reminders
20 days ago
0
6
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HERE LYES THOMAS DANILL JOSEPH AND CATHRINE HUTTONE LAWFULL CHILDRINE TO JOHN HUTTONE TO AND AGNES MARTIN SPOUSSES IN GLEN HOUEN ERECT BE THE SAID SPOUSSES ANNO DOMINI 1722
#Caerlaverock
#church
#graveyard
#tablegrave
#18C
#Scotland
#text
#photography
#taphophile
21 days ago
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From another era: Illinois National Guard building, Urbana, Illinois, 2008. Built in 1939, the same design was used in Urbana, Champaign and Elgin, Illinois.
#photography
#film
#35mm
#Pentax
#monochrome
#bwphotography
#artdeco
#architecture
#modernism
#UIU
#NationalGuard
#Americaneagle
#statepower
22 days ago
0
9
0
#photography
#guitar
#foreshortening
#contrast
22 days ago
0
6
2
Instrumental cover of a beautiful Chris Smither composition on aging and the passage of time.
soundcloud.com/sfjoh/leave-...
#composition
#folk
#aging
#time
#passage
#guitar
#2-string
loading . . .
Leave the Light On (after Chris Smither, 2006)
Guitar and 2-string bass multi-tracked using Audacity.
https://soundcloud.com/sfjoh/leave-the-light-on-after-chris-smithers-2006
23 days ago
0
2
0
Free library, Kirkton, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
#photography
#books
#library
#southern
#Scotland
#phone
#kiosk
#box
#red
#community
#distribution
#civility
24 days ago
0
10
0
Transition iconography. Winged hourglass and lifted veil.
#Troqueer
cemetery, Dumfries,
#Scotland
.
#photography
#gravestone
#memorial
#mementomori
#tempusfugit
#hourglass
#veil
#handofgod
#19C
#tomb
#afterlife
#taphophile
26 days ago
0
6
1
Age abstract
#photography
#abstract
#artphotography
#monochrome
#bwphotography
#blackandwhite
#noiretblanc
28 days ago
0
6
0
Gravestone engraving, southern
#Scotland
.
#bwphotography
#monochrome
#mediumformat
#film
#square
#taphophile
#chiaroscuro
#shadow
30 days ago
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6
0
Equestrian and circus proprietor (d1941) and family. St Mary's cemetery,
#Dumfries
. The Pinder Circus had been founded in 1854. The base reads 'The End of the Road, R.I.P.'
#photography
#southwest
#Scotland
#memorial
#gravestone
#20C
#circus
#performers
about 1 month ago
0
9
3
Lochrutton farmstead Abune the Brae,
#southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#monochrome
#bwphotography
#toned
#rural
#farmland
#livestock
#agriculture
#D&G
#scots
about 1 month ago
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Thomas and Mary, a married couple both born in 1598. He died aged 90, one of nine people of that age recorded among 432 memorial inscriptions at Holywood cemetery. She died in 1650.
homepages.rootsweb.com/~dfsgal/Holy...
#Scotland
#Holywood
#southern
#photography
#taphophile
#gravestone
about 1 month ago
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5
1
Clasped hands (1913): married couple with love transcending death. Finger pointing upwards: hope of heaven.
#Kirkton
#churchyard
, southwest
#Scotland
.
#taphophile
#gravestone
#cemetery
#memorial
#tombstone
#iconography
#symbolism
#D&G
#photography
about 1 month ago
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10
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18th C
#grave
,
#Holywood
churchyard,
#southwest
#Scotland
. Probably laid around the time of the dismantling of the 12thC Holywood Abbey and the construction of its replacement church.
#mementomori
#cemetery
#taphophile
#sandstone
#photography
#graveyard
#18C
about 1 month ago
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3
Graveyard railings, southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#mediumformat
#film
#Mamiya
#TLR
#ornamental
#iron
about 1 month ago
0
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Hard-to-read table grave,
#Kirkton
#churchyard
,
#southwest
#Scotland
. See ALT text for our attempted transcription. Can anyone shed light on the text or background?
#cemetery
#gravestone
#memorial
#Kirktoun
#18C
#burial
#tombstone
#incription
#repentance
about 1 month ago
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3
1
#photography
#human
#foot
#pointless
#composition
about 1 month ago
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5
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Confused gatekeeper, See Morris Hill, southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#film
#monochrome
#toned
#mediumformat
#Mamiya
#bw
about 2 months ago
0
10
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Lincluden Abbey from east side of the river Nith.
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#composition
#toning
#mediaeval
#ruins
#river
#southwest
#scotland
about 2 months ago
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10
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'Large White'
#butterfly
today (left), which we've seen more of this year than usual. Our buddleia plants also attract lots of Painted Lady butterflies, Red Admirals, Small Whites, Green-Veined Whites, Tortoiseshells and Peacocks.
#photography
#Fuji
#garden
#wildlife
#nature
#Scotland
#southwest
about 2 months ago
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Cemetery angels, Dumfries,
#Scotland
.
#grave
#mementomori
#stone
#figure
#angel
#statue
#photography
#cemetery
#graveyard
about 2 months ago
0
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2
Maritime themed art deco, Marine Building, Vancouver (1930).
#artdeco
#moderne
#architecture
#1930s
#skyscraper
#cornice
#stonework
#carving
about 2 months ago
0
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1
#photography
#blackandwhitephotography
#bw
#pattern
#shadow
#Scotland
about 2 months ago
0
8
0
Church gate, southwest Scotland.
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#monochrome
#bw
#churchyard
#winter
#Georgian
#architecture
about 2 months ago
0
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Church gate padlock, southern
#Scotland
.
#photography
#mediumformat
#film
#monochrome
#toned
#composition
about 2 months ago
0
9
0
Cow parsley and clouds, southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#mamiya
#6x6
#plant
#roadside
#hedgerow
#nature
#wild
2 months ago
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2
Haunch, Forest of Ae,
#Scotland
.
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#monochrome
#bw
#Mamiya
#horse
#rain
#closeup
#farm
#southwest
2 months ago
0
14
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Thistle detail.
#photography
#nature
#summer
#plant
#thistle
#detail
#monochrome
#depthoffield
#square
2 months ago
0
6
1
Southwest
#Scotland
today.
#photography
#sky
#cloud
#crop
#weather
#rural
#agriculture
2 months ago
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Harvesting today, southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#agriculture
#combine
#harvester
#church
#farmhouse
#field
#grain
2 months ago
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8
0
Occupations on gravestones, old and new, at Terregles churchyard, southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#graveyard
#gravestone
#memorial
#occupation
#photographic
#artist
#crane
#operator
#sandstone
#granite
2 months ago
1
7
1
Kirkudbright dock - scallop dredging trawler.
#Scotland
#hardware
#fishing
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#6x6
#coast
#tonality
2 months ago
0
6
1
Crypt door, Georgian church, southwest
#Scotland
.
#cemetery
#churchyard
#graveyard
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#monochrome
#bw
#somber
#black
#chiaroscuro
2 months ago
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In the style of Alexandr
#Rodchenko
.
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#Mamiya
#soviet
#realism
#perspectiveplay
#bokeh
2 months ago
0
12
0
Retired propeller, southwest
#Scotland
.
#photography
#film
#35mm
#Pentax
#greyscale
#composition
3 months ago
0
12
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Resurfacing, southern Scotland.
#photography
#film
#mediumformat
#monochrome
#bw
#steam
#asphalt
#Scotland
3 months ago
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