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Mary Jo Richards

@mjrichards.bsky.social

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Teacher, reader, observer of people and the natural world, wife, cat mom, unapologetic liberal, feminist, queerdo, antiracist, neurodivergent who masquerades as a normie. Obsessed with the analog, particularly film cameras, typewriters & fountain pens.

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think either of those words count unless they end in “z.”

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3h

Just listened to your episode while doing laundry today. Good stuff there. 200 cameras! Wow!

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3h

Not a film photo, but it makes me happy because it’s of my favorite person, @rockstarballet.bsky.social, and one of our furkids (S’mores, who seems less than thrilled with the situation).
📷 Olympus Pen E-P1 with 14-42mm f:3.5-5.6 kit lens
#photography

Bald, tattooed man with glasses is smiling broadly as he lifts up an adorable calico cat, who is tolerating such outrageous treatment for the moment

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 5h

That’s like falling asleep in a fairy ring of mushrooms. You takes your chances.

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 7h

Score!!

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 7h

Really loving your documentary photos!

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 12h

That’s Portra 400. Thanks, autocorrect.

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 14h

And he just went up a few notches in my estimation…

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 15h

Some street photography from Fell’s Point in Baltimore, Maryland, last month.
📷 Pentax 17
🎞️ Kodak Portrait 400
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
#filmphotography

Busy street scene in Fell’s Point with pedestrians moving along a sidewalk

Pedestrian walking below the sign for the oldest continuously operating tavern in the US, The Horse You Rode in On Saloon, in Fell’s Point, Baltimore, Maryland

Shot of pedestrians and dog walkers along the promenade at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in Fell’s Point.

Police and attendees at OysterFest in Fell’s Point in Baltimore, Maryland

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Great shot!

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh, a person after my own heart. “Midnight” around this household is 8:00 PM.

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Always! 🐶

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 1d

Just wanted to say how impressive it is that you go out to these protests and document them and participate in them so often. You are getting such important shots.

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 1d

If I got this paper, instant A.

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 1d

It will be a while before I have time to finish off the rolls that are in my cameras now & develop them, so I am going to post shots from the five rolls I just got back daily until I run out of frames I like.
📷 Minolta Maxxum 7000
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
#filmphotography
#filmisnotdead
#believeinfilm

A spear of pink butterfly bush blossoms against a background of lush green.

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 2d

I sent in some of my own film along with my students’, so for the first time in a good while I got back lab scans instead of scanning my own. Such luxury! Five whole rolls!
#believeinfilm

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 2d

My students’ film project scans are back! I sent out links to the students to their photos this evening and gave them one week to pick their favorites to enter into the exhibit. Can’t wait to see what they select!
#filmphotography
#analog

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, definitely. You’re good to go!

Reposted by Mary Jo Richards

Nessa Gray @nessagray.bsky.social · 3d

A friend on IG is selling her Pentax 17. Anyone looking for an almost new one at a decent discount?

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3d

Ow! Well, Arista EDU Ultra 100 is running about 80 bucks, up from 70

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the repost @marifromky.bsky.social

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3d

Eerie!

Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3d

It’s understandable. Even when bulk loading and developing and scanning your own, stuff ain’t cheap!

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3d

I have so much fun when I end up with an old #digicam & folks leave images on the memory card. I downloaded a bunch of shots off an XD card today from an #Olympus C-50 & it was full of some guy’s senior year of high school & his trip to #Vegas to see a Tim McGraw concert in 2002. #photography

Vegas at night. New York New York Casino. Image from 2002.

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Mary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 3d

In which case you’re just really productive during your waking hours, unlike most of us schlubs. I spend a lot of time in overwhelm paralysis mode myself.