adalbertbruce
adalbertbruce.bsky.social
adalbertbruce
@adalbertbruce.bsky.social
I'm into books, cinema, comics, photography (both analog and digital -- street photography, being in the right place at intriguing times), weird fiction, zines... Grounded in the Pacific Northwest.
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Dad, astride a Triumph Thunderbird, circa 1950 (possible location: Chicago, where he appeared in the 1950 Census). From a negative, which has been hidden away around 75 years. #1950s #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography #kodak #motorcycle #negative #streetphotography #triumphmotorcycle
Seattle waterfront at sundown, looking towards the Olympic Mountains. 29 July, 2021. #pacificnorthwest #pugetsound #seattle #sunset #washingtonstate #waterfront
December 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A photo I took; model shoot, Brooklyn Bridge, 1994. A photo of someone taking a photo... From a negative. #1990s #brooklynbridge #candid #model #negative #newyorkcity #photography #streetphotography #twintowers #urbanphotography#worldtradecenter
December 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
December 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Photo of mom; late 1940s. Unknown location (possibly Portland, Oregon). From a negative. Atmosphere of noir and the postwar. #1940s #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography #city #negative #realfilm #streetphotography #urbanphotography
December 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
In the grasses, 10 December, 2025. #fungi #mushrooms
December 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
A photo of me; Granary Burying Ground, while on a visit to Boston, part of a cross-US trip; August, 1986. From a negative. #1980s #analogphotography #boston #cemetery #graveyard #newengland
December 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Selfie, 1984. From a negative. #analogphotography #negative #realfilm #selfie
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From newspaper articles concerning my great-great aunt, artist/printmaker Norma Bassett Hall; (photo of her) from The Oregonian, 4 October, 1928; (print) in The Wichita Eagle, 18 March, 1929; via newspapers. com. #artist #graphicarts #normabassetthall #woodcut
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Downtown, Main & Water St., Panorama. Silverton, Oregon." Cirkut camera photo by June D. Drake, 7 May, 1929. There is a kind of melancholy, Edward Hopper-esque feel; not long before the Depression. Via ohs.org. #1920s #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography #panorama #streetphotography
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
December skies... #clouds #december #sky
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Here's a photo from 18 June, 2009, from the Old Market Square, Wrocław, Poland. I was on the track of the ancestral parsonage (or at least the spirit of it), from the previous post -- journeying by train from Berlin... I traveled again to Poland in 2015. #breslau #poland #streetphotography #wrocław
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The parsonage where my great-grandfather, Ludwig Falk, spent his youth; Silesia, German Empire (now in Poland), circa 1865. My impression is that the edifice is probably non-extant. #analogphotography #ancestry #blackandwhitephotography #germany #sepia
December 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Parental slide photo, captioned "Nikolski gunners, Geiger and Moore." Circa 1958. It reminds me of a scene from some noir film; or maybe early Kubrick. #35mm #35mmfilm #alaska #aleutianislands #analogphotography #nikolski
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
A photo of me (center, on the left with the long yellow-looking stripe on my jacket), and friends/classmates; on a school outing, when President Jimmy Carter was visiting Mt. Hood Community College (Gresham, Oregon); 3 November, 1978. Also, a picture of Carter at the lectern, in the distance.
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A slide photo, taken by M. Reed's great-uncle; Japan, circa 1960. #35mm #35mmfilm #analogphotography #japan #slidephoto #streetphotography
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A picture I took; New York City, 1994. From a negative. #analogphotography #negative #newyorkcity #streetphotography
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Parental slide photo; with my grandmother sitting under that great midcentury-style clock, aunt in a blur, cousins, and uncle, on the other side of the table. My mother's back was to the camera; my grandfather on the left of the table. Seattle, Wash., circa 1958. #35mm #1950s #analogphotography
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A new video of a 1980s recording I recently turned up: Me speaking with artist, Roman Scott; while he was working on a print at the University of Denver art building. #art #dreams #surrealism youtu.be/2lPvNJDeOhw?...
In Conversation with Roman Scott (with Jonathan Bruce Falk), Denver, 1-20-1985
YouTube video by Adalbert
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November 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A photo of me, at Mt. St. Helens; 1994. From a negative. #analogphotography #mtsthelens #negative #volcano #washingtonstate
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My great-aunt (wearing a hat), and mother; circa 1958. Location not known. #35mm #35mmfilm #1950s #analogphotography #slidephoto #streetphotography
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
My mother (furthest from the camera) and her parents; circa 1958. Possibly in Seattle, while visiting. #35mm #35mmfilm #1950s #analogphotography #pacificnorthwest #slidephoto
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Parental slide photo; Nikolski, Aleutian Islands, circa 1958. The caption mentioned a name of one of the subjects -- that of Bernie Whitlock. #35mm #35mmfilm #1950s #alaska #aleutianislands #analogphotography #cigar #nikolski #slidephoto #whitealice #workers
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM