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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 23h

Marine Building, Vancouver dirigible: 1980 and 2012.

#photography #filmphotography #bwphotography #bw #monochrome #stone #film #processing #artdeco #1930s #relief #sculpture #architecture #1930s #BC #Canada #modernity #transportation

Window stonework with a relief carving of a dirigible in front of skyscrapers and streaming sunlight.
(c) 1980 Sean F. Johnston

Dirigible carving on another stone on the same wall of the Marine Building. Reversed direction.
(c) 2012 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

#Edinburgh #Scotland #streetphotography #photography #film #mediumformat #Mamiya #Calton #classicphotography #filmphotography #toned #monochrome #bw #bwphotography

Edinburgh street passing under Calton Bridge. Pedestrians and cars visible, with the city buildings beyond.
(c) Sean F. Johnston 2010

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

#bwphotography #classicphotography #filmphotography #photography #shadow #sunlight #resolution #mediumformat #exposure #Mamiya #fineartphotography #artphotography #chair #texture #fabric #bw #monochrome

Close-up view of rocking chair with sunlight streaming from the side, illuminating and shadowing the seat and back.

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 3d

Farm machine detail.

#photography #film #35mm #filmphotography #developing #classicphotography #rural #agriculture #machinery #tools #plowing #farming #southwest #Scotland

Three cutting fingers of a plowing machine in the foreground, with a blurry field and trees in the background.
(c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 4d

Geese landing, southwest Scotland, 2017

#photography #film #mediumformat #monochrome #bwphotography #filmphotography #migration #migrating #geese #wind #turbines #Southwest #Scotland

View of dozens of geese in a large flock landing in a grassy field, with wind turbines in the background.

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 5d

30x4

#photography #film #mediumformat #classicphotography #filmphotography #bwphotography #bw #monochrome #water #reflection #rural #acuity #greyscale

Winding rural road, with large puddles of water on either side reflecting two 30mph signs.

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 6d

#photography #filmphotography #classicphotography #film #monochrome #bw #tree #ivy #branches #contrast #artphotography

Ivy branches growing up a large tree.
(c) 202 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 8d

Self-portrait with clover, 2009.

#photography #film #mediumformat #bw #monochrome #bwphotography #shadow #selfie #heiligenschein #tlr #twinlensreflex #grass #clover

Shadow of man, hand and camera on grass, which has clover flowers randomly growing from it.

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 9d

#photography #film #mediumformat #bw #bwphotography #monochrome #texture #wood #shadow

Two-man crosscut saw, dating from about 1920, leaning against the wood wall of a garage.
(c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 10d

Bridge arch and farm wall, 2019.

#photography #bw #bwphotography #artphotography #bridge #water #stone #wall #shapes #shades #greyscale #optical #illusion #interface #boundary #oblong #square #triangle #Fuji

Arch of bridge reflected in river water, creating an oval-shaped ring framing the water.
(c) 2019 Sean F. Johnston

End-on view of a stone barn with a weighing scale in front. The wall is white-washed about to about 2 m, and thereafter is faded - emulating the look of the bridge arch in the adjacent picture.
(c) 2019 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 12d

Graveyard gate, southern Scotland.

#photography #mediumformat #film #bwphotography #ironwork #iron #ornementation #gate #silhouette #churchyard #cemetery

Vertical bars of iron, some with curled tops, ball-shaped tops or crescent shaped tops, against a leaden sky, and gravestones near the bottom.
(c) 2019 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks!

Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 13d

Glass wall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009.

#photography #film #monochrome #bw #bwphotography #artphotography #abstract #artdeco #1930s #pattern #glass

Nine blocks of a larger glass wall, showing blurry reflected patterns of the street.
(c) 2009 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 14d

Water tower, Rantoul, Illinois, 2008.

#photography #bwphotography #bw #film #mediumformat #monochrome #greyscale #architecture #viewpoint #Rodchenko

Upward-facing view of a water tower, showing the structure of one of the legs and the round water-filled dome on top.
(c) 2008 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 16d

Vielen Dank / thanks very much

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 16d

Memorial to 'The Second Great War 1939-1945', Keir Mill, southwest Scotland.

#war #memorial #Scotland #photography #commemoration #history #local #rural

Commemorative stone added at base of First World War memorial, reading 'AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND GREAT WAR 1939-1945
SGT AIR GNR. ROBERT MILLAR, R.A.F.
F.O. WILLIAM YOUNG R.A.F.
DRIVER DONALD CARROLL, R.A.S.C.

Memorial cross in village of Keir Mill, Scotland, reading 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF KEIR PARISH WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919'

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 16d

Local hero: #gravestone of Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878) and family, reputed inventor of the pedal #bicycle. #Keir Mill, #Dumfries & #Galloway, #Scotland. One of the more hidden-away #cemeteries in the region, but a pleasant find on a sunny early-autumn day.

#invention #technology #history

Gravestone of the MacMillan family, with final line reading 'Inventor of the Bicycle'.
(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Commemorative plaque beside the gravestone, describing Kirkpatrick Macmillan as a blacksmithe who invented the first pedal bicycle.
(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 17d

Bellfield farm outbuilding, southwest #Scotland.

#photography #monochrome #bwphotography #film #mediumformat #contrast #rural #farm #clear #sunshine #yellowfilter #agriculture

Monochrome image of side of a farm outbuilding, with a large harvest storage vat alongside. The building is sandstone painted white, with a single window in the apex.

(c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 17d

Freedom Road (instrumental). Words by poet/activist Langston Hughes and music by Emerson Harper (1942). Recorded by Josh White in 1966 and adapted by Indra Rios-Moore in 2022.
on.soundcloud.com/5OiRHNAFUTrf...

#folk #protest #spiritual #cover #instrumental #inspirational #guitar #LangstonHughes

Freedom Road (by Langston Hughes, 1944, after Indra Rios-Moore, 2022)

multi-tracked with Audacity

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 19d

An uncommon (to me) Speckled Wood Butterfly today in a large plowed field now full of knotweed (Redshank).

#Scotland #southwest #agriculture #woodland #countryside #hedgerows #nature #rural #photography

Butterfly with dark grey-brown wings, each with about a dozen yellow patches and three or four eye-shaped 'target' spots on the rear.

(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Downward view of green plants with elongated, sharply pointed green leaves each having a dark grey splotch in the middle, growing in a stony plowed field.

(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 20d

Mediaeval finds: blue #bead and #stained #glass near the site of #Holywood #Abbey, southern #Scotland.

#FindsFriday #archaeology #mediaeval #glass #Scotland #religious #sites

Blue glass bead, found at road edge intersecting the former Holywood Abbey site, southern Scotland.
(c) 2013 Sean F. Johnston

Piece of greenish and translucent glass, likely from a window of the former Holywood Abbey, demolished in 1777.

(c) 2012 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 23d

A rare photo of Clair L. ("Red") Stong (1902-1975), editor of Scientific American's 'Amateur Scientist' column from 1953-75, which inspired generations of amateur scientific equipment-builders and experimenters.

tinyurl.com/Amateur-Scie...

#maker #makers #hacking #amateur #citizenscientist

1930s photo of average-build moustachioed man with tall collar, which appeared in the Bell Telephone Magazine. He was an electrical engineer at Western Electric from 1926 to 1962.

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 24d

Pheasant feathers.

#photography #film #bwphotography #monovhtomr #artphotography #mediumformat #6x6 #square #rural #Scotland #southwest #gate #field

White wooden gate with two pheasant feathers threaded through a metal loop.

(c) 2010 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 26d

Aluminium barrels, southern #Scotland.

#photography #Fuji #pattern

Two roys of aluminium beer barrels having yellow painted bands around their middles.

(c) 2017 Sean F. Johnston

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Sean Johnston @seanfjohnston.bsky.social · 28d

Details of early 18c table gravestones with memento mori iconography. #Caerlaverock #graveyard #southern #Scotland.

#photography #cemetery #gravestones #mementomori #skull #crossbones #casket #sandstone #flying #heaven #death #reminders

Edge of table grave showing embossed carving of crossed shinbones, skull and words 'memento mori'.
(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Edge of table grave showing embossed carvings of crossed shinbones, skull and casket.
(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Edge of table grave showing embossed shield within which are three bearded heads and possibly scales. Dated 1707
(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

Edge of table grave showing embossed carving of skull with wings.
(c) 2025 Sean F. Johnston

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