#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b36: UC Riverside (1967-69) One: I'm not sure how this photographer showed up in our offices, but she's clearly a pro; no one else would be carrying a Nikon F with Photomic FTn finder. (And no pro of that time would be seen not carrying one.)

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b34: Riverside (1967-69) One: At a dance. I'm pretty sure this must have been early 1967; after the Summer of Love, people didn't look like this any more.

Hurrah for #folderweek, I got an article out of it! https://www.35mmc.com/04/12/2025/horseman-980-a-seasonal-essay/

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b33: UC Riverside (1968-69) Shots of the 1968-69 theater class in rehearsal. I think that they are practicing a one-act play, Set One.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b32: UC Riverside (1967-69) One: Two guys climb the UCR bell tower at 1 in the morning. Probably 1967.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b31: UC Riverside (1969) A collection of dance rehearsal photos taken at different times that all ended up on the same page of random negative strips. As usual, Fred Strickler is the instructor. Set One.

@bosak I have a collection of darkroom kit that I got secondhand from a professional photographer 20 years ago as they switched to digital, and for life reasons have never gotten around to using it. I think it's past time to give it to someone else who will actually use it. If you know someone […]

RE: https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/112652246026019008 I thought it might be useful for people thinking of getting into #filmphotography to boost a thread that I posted a year and a half ago. What you see is everything I use to process roll film in my kitchen (no darkroom). I should note that the […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b29: Riverside (1969) One: Participants in a County group therapy session. It's not clear how I obtained permission to shoot these.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b28, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-68) One: People lying about the student radio station, KUCR. Several of them are tripping. KUCR was a great place to do this, because they could make requests of the on-air […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b28, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-68) One: At a dance.

I'm getting a kick out of knowing old things. For example, I (like a lot of people) have been told by doctors to take an 82mg aspirin tablet every day. It's fun to startle them by calling it a "baby aspirin" (which for a very long time was the standard name for these things). I don't think it's […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b28: UC Riverside (1968-69) Because my documentations of UCR theater and dance productions were private projects, they survived the catastrophic loss of the official archive that I've described before […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b27: UC Riverside (1968) One: First-year students moving into the dorms.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b26, cont.: UC Riverside (1968) One: Theater people, continued.

Another piece marred by a total ignorance of photo history. A photographer who created some beautiful images is called "a Photoshop pioneer" because he used multiple negatives to get clouds into his pictures. Ortho film made it almost impossible to capture skies and foreground with the same […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b26: UC Riverside (1967-68) One: Leftovers from a set of wedding photos.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b25: UC Riverside (1967-69) Republican State Senator Victor Veysey holding a hearing about something. Veysey went on to two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and later served in the Ford […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #tintypes 1/ I was privileged today to see a two-person show centered around tintypes at the old Cortwright Electrical building on Elmira Road. It's still open tomorrow (Sunday) from 1 to 4. Here's the website […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b24: Riverside (1968) One: Two students.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b22, cont.: Riverside (1968) One: In the costume shop.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b22: Riverside (1968) One: This photo is a puzzle. I'm in a living room owned by someone older than the people in the picture. A headline saying "Justices face appeal of draft card burner" puts us in early […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b21, cont.: UC Riverside (probably 1967) What studying looked like back then. Set One.

A couple of really interesting articles this morning (free links). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/well/eat/whole-milk-dairy-health-effects.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.jvJB.SfPzWn9hUNWT&smid=url-share […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b21: UC Riverside (1967-68) One: Someone is apparently signing up for something.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b20: UC Riverside (1968) One of the theater students takes his kids to class.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b19: UC Riverside (1967-69) One: Construction on campus, probably 1967 but possibly later.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b18: Riverside (1968) One: A better version of a photo I posted earlier. I have been hoping that this frame would turn up (I still have a print of it).

TIL (from First Dog on the Moon) the word "pikelet." According to the OED, "Chiefly Austral. and N.Z. A drop-scone," but originally "A Western and Midland name for a small round tea-cake, made of fine flour; a crumpet, or, in some districts, a muffin." From "bara-picklet" (Welsh bara pyglyd […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Pages 196769b16 and 196769b17: Riverside (1968) More randomly encountered negative strips. One: A woman in a snack shop. My hunch is that she's taking a break from her job working in one of the stores nearby.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b15: Riverside (1967-69) I am apparently in a shopping mall. The sequence begins in a jewelry store and then shifts to a game arcade. One: Jewelry store.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b14: UC Riverside (1967-69) An unusually scattered set of strips. One: Uni-camp, apparently.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b13: UC Riverside (1968) People were lot more casually physical back then. These two are just horsing around.

I think that I'm going to stop reading boosts for a while (phanpy makes this easy to do). I love the things posted directly by the people I follow on Mastodon, but their boosts are becoming so shrill and tedious that I feel like putting my fingers in my ears. It's not like I'm learning anything […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b12: UC Riverside (1968) One: The same local band that you've already seen a couple of times in this series. Note the hatband made of pull tabs from beer cans, just like the one you saw yesterday.

This accords nicely with the neoplatonic idea that the universe is the creation of Intellect. Just sayin'. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021052.htm

So three or four cups a day would be even better, right? Right? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021046.htm

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b11: UC Riverside (1967-1969) One: Joel Selvin and I were in competition for Melanie's affections. I'm sure that I was very jealous when I took these pictures. In the end, I won an eight-year relationship […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b10, cont.: UC Riverside (1967-1969) Three women, all probably from 1968. Set One, from an actual portrait session.

[technical rant] 1/ I really like seeing the #filmphotography of people that I follow here, especially works in b&w (which will always be "photography" to me). So it causes me pain to glance at many otherwise well-executed b&w images and move on without even taking a closer look at them; the […]

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Reminder: The subcollection "196769b" consists of individual 35mm strips of 6 frames apiece that were found jumbled up in the bottom of the box labeled "1967-69." The images posted here on any given day may have been […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography I wasn't expecting my interruption of the #retrobosak series to last as long as it has, but two weeks of travel followed by 16 rolls of 120 to process followed by three weeks of illness have kept me away from the task. Here's a summary of the project for people who […]

#photography #filmphotograpy The last of the photos taken on my visit to Illinois. #retrobosak resumes tomorrow. One: My granddaughter.

"Hitting big numbers on social media doesn’t mean what it used to, as the rise in its use as a promotional space has rendered it transactional and professionalized. Now having a conspicuously modest following, and being messy or careless about posting, has attained a certain cachet." -- The New […]

#photography #filmphotograpy Along with the 6x9 that I used for the photos of grain elevators that I posted for folderweek, I also took along on my visit to Illinois my new Rollei 2.8C and came back with 8 rolls of Tri-X, which I've now developed (D-23 1:1) […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

#photography #filmphotography From "Secrets: Selected Photographs, 1968-1983" (a book in progress). Last item in this collection for now. There will be more in a couple of years after I've managed to scan my negatives from 1970-1976.

MSFT: Mwahaha! If you don't upgrade to new hardware, the 40% of the world's personal computers still running Win10 will soon be so infested with malware that the whole thing will stop working! So you MUST upgrade and therefore you WILL upgrade! QED! Remaining Win10 Users: We don't have the […]

#photography Job listings for photographers have dropped 28% over the past year. Since late-model digital cameras were half AI anyway, this just appears to me to be the continuation of a logical trend. https://graphics.social/@metin/115487612637132014

#photography #filmphotography From "Secrets: Selected Photographs, 1968-1983" (a book in progress).

#photography #filmphotography From "Secrets: Selected Photographs, 1968-1983" (a book in progress).