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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis
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Former medic, former prison counselor, former criminal defense investigator, former almost academic, photographer, writer of detective fiction, Edgar Award winner.
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A subset of pleasing lines and shapes, with occasional winter light, can make even a men's toilet in a 1950s brutalist building look good.

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White railings on a brutalist concrete structure. A stairway leading down to a men's toilet. Some wooden benches.
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Midwest winter (before the snow).

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A black-and-white photograph of a harvested field, with crop rows visible. On the right side of the frame are a couple of electrical poles and a railroad track. In the distance, a storm front is moving in.
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Had to step into a Big Box store today & came across this horrifying bastard.

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A crystaline plastic snowman for sale in a big box store.
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I still get a wee bit creeped out by the large open spaces of the Midwest, but lawdy, when the light is right...

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A field that's been harvested, with a treeline in the background, illuminated by winter light, with clouds being dramatic AF.
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.

This 2007 salon is about John Humble, who scraped away the sedimentary layers of media-driven images of Los Angeles to find out what lay hidden beneath.
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A photograph by Los Angles photographer John Humble showing a small bungalow. In the background is a tall, angular modern building.
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I drove through the Target parking lot to get to the pet shop that stocks the only thyroid-friendly treats the resident cat can eat. I figured it was permissible to shoot a photo of the bench & bike racks without violating the boycott.

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I had to drive through the parking lot of Target to get to the pet shop that stocks the only thyroid-friendly treats the resident cat can eat. The winter light was nicely dramatic; I figured it was permissible to shoot a photo of a bench & bike racks without violating the boycott.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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My first thought: what an odd place to express an opinion. But it's a start. A stencil was made...good. It was put to use...good. It was sorta kinda in public view...good. And next?

It's all a progression toward more open expression.

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A stencil was used to write "Fuck the police" on a concrete wall near the back of a public building.
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The cat was annoyed that the sun was shining but I'd failed my duty to raise the blinds.

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A black-and-white photograph of a small black cat on a table, silhouetted by a window on which shadows appear on the closed blinds.
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Ain't nobody shooting hoops today.

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A cold, damp, empty basketball court in a neighborhood park. I believe the backboard is set lower than usual for younger players (who have the good sense to say inside where it's warm and dry).
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The only selfies I shoot on a regular basis are reflections in windows. I guess you'd call them self-reflections?

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A photograph of the photographer's reflection in a window.
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Yeah, I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for this. But it seems like once or twice a year I'll find a random pair of jeans lying in an alleyway.

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A pair of blue denim jeans lying in an alleyway.
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.

This piece, from 2007, is on Ralph Meatyard--one of those WTF photographers (which, okay, isn't an actual genre of photography, but ought to be).

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A photograph by Ralph Meatyard, showing two kids wearing latex masks standing beside a urinal and a watering bucket.
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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William Kent, the Principal Painter in Ordinary to King George II, said, "Nature abhors a straight line." Aristotle said, "Nature abhors a vacuum." I suspect Nature is a lot more forgiving than folks credit.

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A black-and-white photograph of a tree that refuses to give up its leaves, an urban sculpture comprised of curved poles, with angular buildings in the backgroun.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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This is the plant you'd find in the window of the office of a 1940s hard-boiled detective. In 3 weeks it'll be dead. Suspiciously.

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A plant, the name of which I can't recall, illuminated by morning sunlight through Venetian blinds.
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Larking About on Railroad Tracks edition.

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A man in a hoodie stands outside a fenced area containing large storage tanks with exterior stairways. A railroad track runs along beside them.
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits
An engraving by Gustave Brion illustrating a scene from the 1867 edition of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. It depicts three masked men standing in a doorway. One holds a staff, another carries a large hammer, and the last, a large key.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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An old tree in an oxbow. It's like a lesson in How To Hold On.

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An almost leafless old tree in an oxbow lake.
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Forget Secretary of Defense. Double forget Secretary of War.

This is the Secretary of Dense, only partly because we think he should get the F out of here.
A photo of Pete Hegseth looking confused and suspicious.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Yesterday's bike ride along the railroad tracks, through the Valley of Warehouses, chilly but so pleasant.

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A photograph taken into the sun showing a curving bicycle path.
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Not far from where I live is an area I call the Valley of Warehouses. I'm told it used to be farmland; now it's massive warehouses and data centers. An intercity bike trail threads through the area.

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The back of a massive concrete warehouse structure in what was once farmland.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I used to write the Sunday Salons--essays about photographers as a prompt for #photography discussions.

This piece, from 2007, is on Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu, one of those "who knows more than they care to about things they cannot afford to believe in."
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A photograph of a card game by Japanese photographer Tomei Tomatsu.
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I don't shoot a lot of landscapes, but this felt like it was inside a John Prine song.

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A cloudy, cold Autumn afternoon when the light decided to show off a bit.
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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So here's me having lunch in a small town diner, trying to ignore this animated discussion at the next table...then I figure out they're arguing about which Elder Scrolls game is better, Skyrim or Oblivion.
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A black-and-white photograph of three mature white guys having an animated discussion about the relative merits of the video games Skyrim versus Oblivion.
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Connected.

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An older white man sitting on a bench talking on his cell phone.
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Why I carry a #RicohGR3x in my pocket: Shopping for Jams and Jellies edition. These old guys were serious about their preserves.

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A black-and-white photograph of people shopping for jams, jellies, and various fruit preserves.
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM