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Now -that- is a modern Leica optic worth coveting
December 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Oh, look, a camera that was marketed specifically to professionals. In characteristic and proper black, of course.
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I, too, have an employee discount and a situationship with my credit card
At MIL’s for Xmas today.
“Did you bring your camera?”
“…yes.”

I have a Charmera, OM-1, Zf, and Pen F with me.

I would not have all these but for employee purchase discounts and a situationship with my credit card…

Anyway I’m getting photos of the family pupper, a Golden named Heidi.
December 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Got back to watching Transformers: EarthSpark, and I still like the somehow-even-more-woke Transformers.
December 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My respect, sir
Time for a little Christmas breakfast biscuit posting, who's with me
December 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Merry Christmas 🔪
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Here's some unedited photos from the Sony CDMavica CD500 (yes, it's called that because it literally burns the images on a CD-RW to save them).

Spot yours truly in one of the photos!
#ShittyCameraChallenge #SooC
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I am but a simple man, I hear "Euphoria (Firefly)" by Delerium come on, I share it and say "this is my jam"
Euphoria (Firefly), by Delerium
from the album Karma
delerium-official.bandcamp.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The "if you're cold they're cold" trend reminds me, it's never not a good time for August Derleth's short story about snow vampires but right now is a great time for it:

lecturia.org/en/short-sto...
August Derleth: The Drifting Snow | Lecturia
“The Drifting Snow” is a vampire story by August Derleth, published in February 1939 in Weird Tales magazine. The story takes place in an old house in Wisconsin during a winter storm. Clodetta, who ha...
lecturia.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The brothers
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
January

Kodak Medalist II, Foma 400
December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
OK OK, trying not to mope much on here today as it is a joyous day for many, but my contribution to Christmas dialog is that family is fundamentally about who supports you, and they don't have to share genetics to do that. If you need to, you can choose family and form those same strong bonds.
December 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Wintree

Oil on canvas. 24x36" 2015
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I should be bigger than this but, I'm still just really stuck on that weirdo who wanted to call me a whiny sod because... I don't think cameras need to be black to be professional. Like, buddy, unless your work requires you to be clandestine, the silver cameras take exactly the same pictures?
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
2018

E-M1 Mk II, 17mm f1.8
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I have heard this described as "the worst Christmas song" and yanno
Xmas Day
YouTube video by Sevendust - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
2019.

Olympus Pen D2, Delta 400
December 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Alright, alright. I'm up. This should be the last hard day of the year for me (not that there are many left, anyway.) Being sick oddly helps, gives me something else to burn mental energy over.
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Since the void is currently on his vapors, an old photo from when he still tipped the scales more towards cute than chaos.
December 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I remain amused at people who think quote dunking works on Bluesky. You can always tell the n00bs.
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yanno I grew up with ‘arguing like cats and dogs’ as a descriptor of bitter, hated animosity but having both it’s just more a… confused philosophical disagreement about the nature of the world?
December 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Fun (?) fact: the 'director's notes' in the binder in this photo are printouts of Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Lorighoven's hand-written poetry. The outfit the central woman on stage is wearing was chosen from the catalog of a local designer with Elsa's energy, based on similarity to outfits she wore.
December 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"I didn't understand that then, but I do now" is maybe becoming the defining sentiment of my middle age.

... Except that whole 'becoming more conservative' thing. That was just bad folk justifying why they stopped trying to be good.
December 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Every time I try and think about everything that happened this year my brain kinda segfaults because it was objectively so much and yet it feels like nothing happened at all and every year I understand dada a little more and wish I did a little less
December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I like discourse (points to the original Super Mario Kart Ghost Valley 1 track)
December 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM