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Social landscape and street portrait photographer based in Baltimore, MD. Writer of photographic essays. https://michaelwriston.substack.com Forever enamored by the liminal, the misunderstood, and the unconventional. www.michaelwriston.com
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Church of the Living God. Penrose. Baltimore, MD. 2025.

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This Monday (2/24) at 7pm I'm going to be doing my "How to be an introverted photographer talk" at the invitation of the Digital Photography Club of Annapolis on Zoom. They have graciously made the Zoom meeting open for anyone/anywhere who would like to attend: dpca.photoclubservices.com

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Having served under General Brown during his time at Air Staff, I can tell you that this is completely despicable. CQ Brown is a great Airman, a respected leader, and a storied aviator. He was CJCS for a damn reason. This is nothing but racism.

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What an absolute ignorant dingleberry. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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19th Hole. Coldstream Homestead Montebello. Baltimore, MD. 2025.

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Tree. Harlem Park. Baltimore, MD. 2025.

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At home with Helen aka Ethiopian Foodie for a Bloomberg assignment a while back. South London, December 2023. #believeinfilm (Reposted to correct subject’s name)

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The things you find when you can’t sleep…

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West Philly Ice House 52nd & Locust February 2015

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Road end. Dundalk, MD. 2025.

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Heading down to the USPS dropbox to mail off a stack of custom thank-you postcards to the folks who upgraded to a paid subscription of Ten Minute Exposure. I'm humbled and flummoxed that people are eager to support my writing and photography.

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I sometimes look at this planning map for the Baltimore Region Rapid Transit System and weep over what could have been.

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If you use a .cube LUT-friendly post processing tool, a handy tool to keep in your back pocket is the free GMIC Film LUTs collection. I use Kodak Portra 160 & 400 from the "Negative New" folder in DxO Photolab at ~50% strength for a subtle analog touch.

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"Every photo, every ‘once’ in time is also the beginning of a story…Every photo is the first frame of a movie." – Wim Wenders. 📸 The Theatre, Texas, from the series, “Written in the West”, 1987 - Wim Wenders. Love this pic made in '87 when Wenders revisited some of the Paris Texas locations.

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Tracks in the snow. Carrollton Ridge. Baltimore, MD. 2025.

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Maryland weather for you: on Saturday, the forecast for 20 Feb was 100% calling for a foot of snow. As of today, it’s a 0% chance of any snow.

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Millennium Security. Sandtown-Winchester. Baltimore, MD. 2025.

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Good morning! Here’s a quick musing on the morphology of corner rowhouses.

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Felix. Reservoir Hill. Baltimore, MD. 2025.

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Numbers Game. Penn North. Baltimore, MD. 2025. #LongExposure #Night #Photography

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Hearts. Washington Hill. Baltimore, MD. 2025.

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Valentine tree. Broadway East. Baltimore, MD. 2025. #LongExposure #Night #Photography

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Tried Flashes and Pinksky, but found they’re not for me. In leaving Instagram, that meant leaving the grid, endless scrolling, and all things Instagram-ish. But I do like that they’re built on Bluesky—different apps, same people, same photos.

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Fine Fellows. Harlem Park. Baltimore, MD. 2025. #LongExposure #Night #Photography

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Google really said it isn't "sustainable" to set a recurring calendar event on the first of February or first of June every year. #BlackHistoryMonth

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We’re cooked. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Now, the dunes are quiet. The sight lines have closed in with coastal scrub. The wind moves through empty corridors, tracing old firing lanes. Where rifles once echoed against the slopes, there is only the sound of the ocean.

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Lines. Dundalk, MD. 2025. #LongExposure #Night #Photography

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Easy weekend project: adding a little razzle dazzle around the house.

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The world in red. Upper Fells Point. Baltimore, MD. 2025. #LongExposure #Night #Photography

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From the archive. Well dressed man. Washington Hill. Baltimore, MD. 2010. #StreetPortrait #Photography

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