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sbphoto
@sbiessel.com
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Photographer, wanderer, and house cat manager in Omaha, NE, USA. I'm interested in documenting human-altered landscapes, land use, urban sprawl, or whatever I find on walks. he/his

Works at https://sbiessel.com/
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St. Paul, Minnesota, May 2023
Color photograph looking across a broad empty parking lot at night, everything around is nearly black, and a lone streetlight at the end of the light shines a deep orange light over the asphalt, illuminating the tops of a few trees by the base of the pole so they almost look like wings
January 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Arrow

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics #UrbanLandscapes
Train cars sit idle on tracks behind a row of leafless trees. Part of a road is visible in the foreground in front of the trees. An arrow on the road mirrors the bent trunk of a tree behind.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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In the shadow of the Cold Storage Lofts

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics
A billboard sign facing the camera towers over a raised highway onramp and city streets. Only the legs of the billboard are visible, the top is cut off by the top of the image frame. A parking lot lined with hedges, leafless trees, and a vacant lot with a large brick warehouse building in the distance.
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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Kansas City, MO. December 2025.

#Photography #NewTopographics #KansasCity
Three concrete blocks sit in front of trees and an concrete wall. A face is drawn on the closest block to the camera. Two smoke stacks from a factory or power plant are visible in the distance behind the trees. Trees in the foreground mirror the stacks.
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Lone wolf

1/3 A new entry to my Words series (working title). My friend Rhys was showing me around St. Paul when I first saw this image. I let out an audible “oh shit” when I saw the bike.

St. Paul, MN. November 2025.

#NewTopographics #StPaul #Photography
A broken pink and teal colored bike sits beside two concrete road barriers. Spray paint reading "lone wolf" is written on one of the barriers. A yellow, blue, and pink light rail train advertising Planned Parenthood is visible behind. A lone figure walking away is visible on the sidewalk in the distance behind the barriers.
January 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Crucifix Stonehenge, -40F with Ice Fog, Fairbanks. 1/1/2026.

Decided to gear up and get out there today. The ice fog is doing some gorgeous things with the light and atmosphere. #icefog #alaska #40below #arctic #frigid
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Hell comes home

Working through a new batch of photographs from a New Year's trip to Kansas City.

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#NewTopographics #KansasCity #Photography
"Hell comes home" is spray painted beside other graffiti on a concrete platform. A freight train passes the platform on the left.
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Seen at the Saddle Creek, Omaha, Walmart: a man dressed up as a 50-year-old version of the kid from a Christmas Story, wearing a sweater featuring the young version
December 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Yet to make a print from this large format X-ray film negative (from a pinhole camera) - but it’s on my to do list for early next year.
#Believeinfilm #filmphotography
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Sloppy human experimentation > Slop

Sorry for the paywalled article, I haven't even read it fully myself, but I like the message.
Make Culture Weird Again
Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff.
www.theatlantic.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Movies that I saw for the first time this year that will stick with me, in one way or another. What were yours?

- Challengers
- Ran
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- One Battle After Another
- Wings of Desire
- Withnail and I
- Sinners
- Weapons
- Strictly Ballroom
- 28 Days Later
- Listers
- Robocop
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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#RIP Martin Parr. So sad.
desdelboy.bsky.social Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · Dec 7
Morning all.

Photographer Martin Parr. Elland, West Yorkshire From ‘Bad Weather’. December, 1978.
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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séchoir à bois, rue turgeon, hébertville
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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gwillow.me
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · Nov 24
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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lonnie-smith.bsky.social
Kansas City, October 2025.

#streetphotography #urbanlandscapes #urbangaze #photography #kansascity
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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some favorites from my recent road trip through southern cali 🌧️
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Seeing old bowling alleys makes me nostalgic for my youth

I think we went bowling a total of three or four times as kids

I wonder what that means

Windom, MN. November 2025.

#Photography #Minnesota #NewTopographics
A long building with a curved roof painted in beige colors of green, brown, and red sits in a snowy landscape under a silvery white and blue sky. A sign above a door in the center of the image reads" Bowling Arcade" in weathered lettering. The building appears closed. Bowling ball shapes line the side of the building leading to the door.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Maximum Clearance

Omaha, NE. November 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography
Off-kilter view of a closed door to a parking garage with a fence in the foreground separating the entrance to the garage from the sidewalk. An alley behind the garage and taller building are visible in the far left of the image. The late afternoon sun creates several angular shadows from the intersecting lines created by all of the structures.
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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julesetc.meangirls.online
>looking for a new photography location
>ask my friend if their location is portra or hp5
>she doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is portra and what is hp5
>she laughs and says "it's a good location ma'am"
>go there
>it's hp5
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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markharris.bsky.social
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Pre order your holiday pies now

Route 169, MN. November 2025.

#Photography #NewTopographics #Minnesota
A sign advertising pre-ordering holiday pies sits beside a highway sign near a highway. Red circular road barriers sit between the signs. A closed gas station with green trim sits behind these two signs.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Stumbled upon this scene waiting for a city bus. Minneapolis, MN. November 2025.

PS, anyone know what painting this is?

#Minneapolis #Photography
A storefront window with two panes of glass along a sidewalk. The right pane has a for lease sign. The right pane features a classical or baroque painting of a woman running with a hand outstretched while a woman crawls next to her. A pair of sneakers sits on the sidewalk below the painting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Kansas City. October 2025.

#photography #streetphotography #urbanlandscapes #kansascity
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Very late #Evening at Sandringham Estate...

#photography #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhite #blancoynegro #monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #Scape #BlueSkyArtShow
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM