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James Paul
@roguemusiclab.bsky.social
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Musician, engineer, composer, photographic hack, and lover of ephemeral minutiae.
DM for prints.

https://jamespaulphotography.myportfolio.com

https://roguemusiclab.substack.com
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James Paul @roguemusiclab.bsky.social · Jan 23
An evolving portfolio:

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Dualitree

Fuji GX680iii 125/3.2 f5.6 @ 1/60s 6x7 mask
Fujichrome Velvia 50
Handheld

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #MediumFormatFilm #120Film #Fujifilm #Fujichrome #FujiGX680 #FujiCamera #IShootFijiFilm
Two trees, one bare and one leafy, stand across a meadow. Fall colours are seeping into the trees on the far hill across sone water.
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Fading aster

Fuji GX680iii 125/3.2 f4 @ 1/60s
Fujichrome Velvia 50
Handheld

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #MediumFormatFilm #120Film #Fujifilm #Fujichrome #FujiGX680 #FujiCamera #IShootFijiFilm
Aster blossoms, late in the season, with an out of focus background of a quiet bay reflecting the changing trees on the far shore.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Sitting on a dock on a swamp.

Pentax Auto 110 Super 18mm/2.8 Pan Focus
Lomography Tiger

#ShootFilmBeNice #GrainIsGood #BelieveInFilm #TheFilmCommunity #110Format #Lomography #LomographyTiger #Pentax #PentaxAuto110 #PentaxCamera
A person wearing a black coat and toque sits on a dock on Cootes Paradise in Hamilton.
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Social Bicycles

Pentax Auto 110 Super 18mm/2.8 Pan Focus
Lomography Tiger

#ShootFilmBeNice #GrainIsGood #BelieveInFilm #TheFilmCommunity #110Format #Lomography #LomographyTiger #Pentax #PentaxAuto110 #PentaxCamera
An orange and a blue bicycle are locked to a bike rack beside a path in a park. The crossbrace of the blue one reads “Social Bicycles”.
December 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Bonus Bingley and it’s not even #caturday. That’s because it’s #BingleyDay! and this kitten is pondering the weight of adulthood as she turns two!

Nikon Df 70-300 AF-S ED 1:4.5-5.6 @ 300mm
F5.6 1/60s ISO 8000

#Photography #Nikon #NikonDf #NikonCamera
A black and white close up of a ginger tabby resting her chin on the edge of her bed and looking serious as she contemplates what cats contemplate.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A tale of two trees.

Pentax Auto 110 Super 18mm/2.8 Pan Focus
Lomography Tiger

#ShootFilmBeNice #GrainIsGood #BelieveInFilm #TheFilmCommunity #110Format #Lomography #LomographyTiger #Pentax #PentaxAuto110 #PentaxCamera
Two trees stand in an early autumn meadow, one bereft and one still in full foliage. The grey sky reflects on the water of Cootes Paradise beyond.
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The Bingley guards one of my camera cases.

Nikon Df 70-300 AF-S ED 1:4.5-5.6 @ 75mm
F7.1 1/60s ISO 6400

#Photography #Nikon #NikonDf #NikonCamera #Caturday
A ginger cat lies, alert, on a turquoise towel next to a large camera bag.
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Like I said, I’ve done a thing again:

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November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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A hydrant basks in the midday sunshine.

Pentax Auto 110 Super 18mm/2.8 Pan Focus
Lomography Tiger

#ShootFilmBeNice #GrainIsGood #BelieveInFilm #TheFilmCommunity #110Format #Lomography #LomographyTiger #Pentax #PentaxAuto110 #PentaxCamera
A bright red fire hydrant shines in the sun.
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I wrote a thing last week. I wrote another this week. Subscribe here and get it first:

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James Paul - The Rogue Review | Substack
Musings of a many times music producer, sometimes photographer, learning to be himself in this world. Click to read James Paul - The Rogue Review, a Substack publication. Launched 6 days ago.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Skylight

Pentax Auto 110 Super 18mm/2.8 Pan Focus
Lomography Tiger

#ShootFilmBeNice #GrainIsGood #BelieveInFilm #TheFilmCommunity #110Format #Lomography #LomographyTiger #Pentax #PentaxAuto110 #PentaxCamera
A interior photo of what is actually a medical building, from the upper floor atrium, we look across an opening to the lower floor, design such that the light from the large, angled skylight above will reach both levels. Across from us, a false window displays a photograph of a birch forest.
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Sunday morning abstract: when do flaws constitute a failure, or do they? Portrait of Benjamin Hackman of The Holy Gasp on extraordinarily expired (and flawed) film.

Fuji GX680iii 125/3.2 f3.2 @ 1/60s swing
Agfa Pan 100 of unknown lineage

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #SundayMorningAbstract
A badly damage black and white photograph of a person’s head, little is clear but enough that we recognize a human form with hair, an ear, glasses, collar, and shoulders.
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I will be making the bottom end noise with Clockwise as part of the IPO at The Painted Lady. Our set time is 4:15 but come early and stay late for the other fine artists!
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I expect that was put there for a reason before it was roundly ignored.

Polaroid OneStep
Polaroid Color SX-70 film

#BeNiceShootFilm #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #TheFilmCommunity #Polaroid #InstantFilm #PolaroidSX70 #PolaroidOneStep
An orange traffic barrier with hazard tape is tightly sandwiched between two parked cars.
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/roguemus...

In 1990 I started producing a newsletter or zine called The Rogue Review. I think I managed five issues before I ran out of steam.

In 2025, it returns.
New Album Dreamin' with Mike T. Kerr
and new album makin'!
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November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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About to start doing a thing, subscribe if you’re curious.

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Seven wasps gather to feast on a jam packet.
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Trent River locks

Seneca Improved View 5x7
Goerz 7”/4.8 f45 @ 1/10s
Front fall & rear swing
Foma Retropan Soft 320 ex2019 EI200

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #LargeFormat #5x7Film #Foma #FomaFilm #SenecaCamera #ExpiredFilm #Monochrome
The canal next to the Trent narrows to the locks, allowing water traffic to avoid the falls and rapids. A Canadian flag blows in the breeze.
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Sunday morning abstract: another sun spin, pretend it’s a fresh start carrying the marks of the spins gone by.

Linhof Technika V
Ilford FP4+
Graflex holder failure

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #ScannerArt #ScanningTheBlankFrames #SundayMorningAbstract
Almost blank white frame - actually an extremely overexposed sheet of 4x5 film.
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Highway choked stream through a century old camera and lens.

Seneca Improved View 5x7
Goerz 7”/4.8 f45 @ 1/10s
Foma Retropan Soft 320 ex2019 EI200

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #LargeFormat #5x7Film #Foma #FomaFilm #SenecaCamera #ExpiredFilm #Monochrome
A chaos of dead trees and a lilypad strewn still water spread across a valley where a highway culvert has choked a creek.
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A warm memory of longer days.

Fuji GX680iii 100/4 f16 @ 1/30s
Lomography Color100 EX2023
Handheld

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #MediumFormatFilm #120Film #FujiGX680 #FujiCamera #HeyLomography
Goldenrod grows between the boardwalk and the lake as a young man strolls by gazing, perhaps, wistfully, at the far side of the bay.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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a late summer whimsy

Fuji GX680iii 100/4 f8 @ 1/60s swing
Lomography Color100 EX2023
Handheld

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #MediumFormatFilm #120Film #FujiGX680 #FujiCamera #HeyLomography
A large blue stegosaurus walks across a sandy playground towards a utility box painted with a fanciful blue and yellow dinosaur wearing purple headphones and bouncing a basketball.
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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34606 working undercover.

Fuji GX680iii 180/3.2 f5.6 @ 1/400s
Lomography Color100 EX2023
Handheld

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #MediumFormatFilm #120Film #FujiGX680 #FujiCamera #HeyLomography
A large utility box is nearly concealed by trees and goldenrod.
November 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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24 hour blame

Fuji GX680iii 50/5.6 f16 @ 1/60s
Lomography Color100 EX2023
Handheld

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A boarded up car wash has “Blame” emblazoned in giant graffiti letters. The tarmac around is cracked, goldenrod growing. In the foreground, a mound of refuse, beyond, a shining new condominium tower.
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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A gull fails to escape the frame, also, a different angle of Sir Casimir Gzowski’s drainpipe.

Fuji GX680iii 125/3.2 f18 @ 1/30s rise
Fujichrome RFP120 50D EX1992

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #MediumFormatFilm #120Film #Fujifilm #Fujichrome #FujiGX680 #FujiCamera
A sculpted sky hangs over a misty mouth of the Humber River, a modern condominium development on the far bank. On this side, the water is placid betwixt the shore and the breakwater, the rusted drainpipe points to the hazard buoy in the channel, and a gull wings toward the left edge of the frame.
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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It’s time for the Neotek Elite to move to new adventures. Let me know if you are interested.
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM