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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. Charles Bukowski deserttopographics.com
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underlying hope... 3.3.25

Cuatro pescaditos (Four Fishes), Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1986, Graciela Iturbide Iturbide was a previously featured Artist You Need To Know from Art is Hell's continuing series. You can read that here: artishell.com/graciela-itu...

Clarence John Laughlin (1905 - 1985) was a New Orleans photographer, best known for his surrealist photographs of the U.S. South. He is sometimes spoken of as the father of American Surrealism.

Brooklyn Bridge. A gold toned salted paper print made from an original #Holga multiple exposure image. #altprocess #saltprint #filmphotography

from the archive Cannery wall, Newport Oregon July 2010

Looks good, sounds interesting, quality content - what more can you ask?

The Apotheosis of War, 1871, Vasily Vereshchagin

from the archive Desert Center, California 10.9.16

Vignettes of Ipswich THE WINERACK Lomo LC-A 120 Harman Phoenix #filmphotography #photography

Leningrad, Boris Smelov, 1985

Emerge Holga 130 FN Kentmere 400 #photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #holga

desert snapshots palo verde 2.27.25

Sometimes I feel like I should write more. I've found though that if I procrastinate long enough the urge goes away. Works like a charm...

Every Friday, I’ll try to keep sharing a from my ongoing #photography #photobook project, “And sometimes, even today, I call it beauty,” inspired by James Wright’s poem Beautiful Ohio. Formed by light, structure, and memory, our spaces are changing, one small frame at the time.

I woke up this morning mid-dream that I was in a cul-de-sac & realised once I was awake that the term literally means the 'ass of the bag'. How did urban planners get away with this one? #dreams #suburbia #subconscious

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture. That anybody can do. Garry Winogrand

Have beautiful day! #hff nature is the best medicine to reset the soul for me and I look forward to the weekends after the work week. Hope you can get outside too with a #camera in hand. #hf #BelieveInFilm

desert snapshots ocotillo 2.27.25

desert snapshots 2.27.25

desert snapshots cholla 2.27.25 this is cholla country and they're all unique individuals

desert snapshots sunlight and space 2.27.25

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality Daido Moriyama

A couple more today on the blog. Check 'em out if you're so inclined. deserttopographics.com

desert snapshots cholla 2.26.25

desert snapshots double barrel 2.26.25

desert snapshots pencil chollas/desert sun 2.26.25

I'm looking to sit on the edge where complexity tips over to simplicity. When does detail become abstraction? When does being overwhelmed make things easier?

Marsh Edge #holga 120 FN Kentmere 400 #photography #filmphotography #believeinfilm

Taken with my #KodakBrownieCamera Hawkeye for International Brownie Camera Month - just a few days left. Used one of my favorite #film #HarmanPhoenix #filmphoto #BelieveInFIlm #vintage

'Slice of Reflected Sky' (2024) -- Ubiquitous Seaweed & Very Slippery Stones is All Part of the Fun, Compass Harbor Beach, Acadia National Park, ME I'll be around much less this week as I pack my bags for vacation! 😎 #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #jayceecrawford

Turnford Brook, Hertfordshire #holga #filmphotography #film #fortheloveoffilm #filmmagic #infrared #photography #blackandwhitephotography #120film #mediumformat #lomography

desert snapshots 2.25.25 12:55pm Summer heat. In February.

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Today on the blog. More cholla and desert sun: cholla and sunlight deserttopographics.com/2025/02/25/c...

I made a small series of images called "Imaginary Landscapes of the American Southwest". None of the photographs , of course, were made in the southwest. This one is an alcohol gel #inktransfer" on Arches 88 paper. #printmaking #photography