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Joe’s Photos
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Sharing photos and other art I’ve made. Enjoy.
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An engineer's dream, holding water / Over the town as if to dedicate it / To the heavens or keep it clean, the tower / Is painted blue that it may blend / Into the sky and disappear. It won't.

from The Water Tower (1980), by James Paul

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#towers #monochrome
Black and white photo. A rural water tower rises over a row of trees behind it. The sky is mostly cloudless. At left, a single contrail is drifting apart and disappears beyond the image’s edge.
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Supplication.

#driftwood #fallentrees #black&whitephotography #classicmono
Black and white photo. A small floodplain with driftwood. Three large, denuded branches reach diagonally into the air. In the background: a large, dark boulder and a copse of hardwood trees extending fully across the frame.
January 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Riverfront Amphitheater, New Albany, Indiana. August 2023

#amphitheaters #performancespaces #publicparks #outdoorvenues #outdoorstages #black&whitephotography #classicmonowa
Black and white photograph. An outdoor amphitheater with a stage covered by a shell-shaped, arched roof. Concrete and metal seating faces the stage. Behind the stage are a line of trees and a river traversed by a large urban bridge, which is also covered by an ornamental arch.
January 23, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Sepal star. 🌹😉

#flowers #roses #sepals #gardening #black&whitephotography #classicmono
Black and white photo. Overhead view of five sepals remaining on a stem after a rose blossom has faded and fallen away. The sepals create a rough star shape. In the center of the star is a circle of fuzz showing where petals, pistils, and stamens were once attached. In the background, out of focus, are many leaves of the rose plant, still attached.
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Evening, looking west on Lake Michigan. December 2019

#greatlakes #lakemichigan #fishing #boats #clouds
Black and white photo. A calm lake at evening, with a darkish cloud bank on the horizon. No shoreline is visible. A lone fisherman in a small boat is silhouetted in the distance.
January 22, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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French Lick Resort, Orange County, Indiana. October 2019.

#hotels #resorts #swimmingpools #leisure #tourism
Black and white photo. Exterior shot. An oval swimming pool with no swimmers, only still water. Empty chairs on the surrounding deck. At right is the back of a large building with arched doors that open to the pool. In the background is a large, white, apparently octagonal building, with six floors worth of windows and, at extreme frame left, an ornate tower.
January 22, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Am I taking the easy way if I just call this one “Stripes”?

#preschoolkids #kidsswimsuits #barefoot #playgrounds #stripes
Black and white photo. A preschool girl in a swimsuit with horizontal stripes trots away from the camera, along a narrow wooden platform flanked by vertical and diagonal metal bars and wooden 4x4 posts. She is barefoot.
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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This bunny wants YOU to fight fascists in the streets.

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This bunny is squashing the myth of ancient aliens…

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This bunny takes no prisoners…

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January 22, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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The exfoliated bark of the Chinese elm (or lacebark) suggests images, much like clouds in the sky. I see a paw print and a bald man leaning out a second-story window to yell at someone below. What do you see?

#trees #bark #weirdnature #shapes
Color photo. Trunk of a tree with bark peeled away (part of a natural process). The trunk fills the image area. Bits of gray bark edged with reddish color remain but are dotted irregularly on the flesh of the tree, which is exposed and is camel brown.
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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The shades of evening draw on. Louisville, Kentucky. January 2025.

#parks #promenades #pavers #brickwalkways #trees #evening #dusk #twilight #streetlights #black&whitephotography #classicmono
Black and white photo. A promenade between two rows of houses and the streets they face. The promenade, paved with bricks, continues to a vanishing point. Bare winter trees line the sides of the walkway, and lighted streetlights shine just under the lowest of the branches.
January 20, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Windows installation in progress.

#windows #hotels #construction #cherrypickers #hydrauliclifts #constructionequipment #blue
Color photo. Slate blue exterior wall of a hotel building under construction. A worker in a yellow shirt and overalls works from an industrial hydraulic lift to install a fourth-floor window. The lift is green and white. Image emphasizes a pattern: two columns of four rows (stories) of identical windows. Each window has two vertical panes with multiple manufacturer and vendor stickers affixed.
January 20, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

#stores #storefronts #storewindows #windowshopping #windowdressing #dresses #shopping #clothing #coats #hats #mannequins #black&whitephotography #classicmono
Black and white photo. At extreme left, a woman in a puffy coat and fuzzy white winter hat gazes up at a mannequin in a store window. The mannequin has no head and has its hands on its hips. It is wearing a dark-colored mid-calf-length dress. The words Ann Taylor are emblazoned in bold letters across the bottom of the window, in which the reflection of the woman in the hat is also visible.
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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High-school gym.

#windows #walls #wire #gymnasiums #blackandwhite #classicmono
Black and white photo. Interior shot. An opaque window set in a tiled wall. The tiles, a uniform light color, are horizontal rectangles, like the sides of bricks. Only a small part of window is within the image frame, but it’s clear the panes are tall. Diagonal criss-cross metal wire covers the window. At bottom center of the frame, a hinge and latch are visible on the side of the window.
January 19, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Indy, Cincy, St. Louis

#highways #interstates #uscities #cities #cincinnati #stlouis #Indianapolis #65N #I65 #I64 #I71 #black&white #classicmono
Black and white photo. Paved highway leads to horizon, passing under tri-part sign pointing to other cities and highways. A transfer truck and other motor vehicles are visible on the road just beyond the sign.
January 18, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Allium à trois.

#plants #herbs #amaryllis #gardening #black&white #classicmono
Black and white photo. Strong vertical. Three tall stems of allium stand in front of an unpainted board fence. The umbels are in bud but not full flower; their dark interiors are visible. The buds are white. The center stem of the three is less tall than the two at the sides.
January 18, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Arno River, Florence, Italy. October 2025.

#rivers #cities #Europe #europeancities #europeanrivers #clouds #bridges
Color photo. European city-scape. Yellow, red, and orange Italianate buildings with red-tile roofs line the banks of a river, which extends diagonally from the frame’s lower left to the horizon. The water is dark green and its surface is flat — no ripples or waves or watercraft. Three, maybe four, arched bridges cross the river. The nearest bridge is at middle distance; the others are spaced from there to the horizon. Tops of additional buildings, including two church spires, can be seen in the background. Heavy gray clouds are in the sky at top left. Clearer, lighter skies appear at right. Has it just rained, or is the storm now arriving instead?
January 17, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Nature wows: Glass roof frost patterns.
Quite unbelievable, 100% natural.
#frost #natureheals
#WinterWonderland #ice
#subzero #frozenscape
#BlueskyArtShow #scape
#NaturePhotography
A blue tinged surface is snaked with trails of patterned frost that look a bit like frosty white sparkly ladders.
January 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Good morning from Haarlem.

#GoodMorningFromHaarlem
Pale blue dawn and streetlights illuminate the narrow cobblestone street. Plants rise from the houses on either side. A small cat walks toward the camera in the distance.
January 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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'a Path Less Traveled' (2025) -- On the Outskirts of Town, a Solitary & Seldom Used Footpath Provides Several Hours of Refreshing, Isolationist Escape, Brunswick, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
an image of my footprints in fresh snow at the edge of town -- looking backwards at the way i have come - a 4 hour adventure with no other person in sight
January 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Snow, twigs, twine.

My son grew tomatoes in a container on the patio. I rigged this rough cage for the vine: dried epicormic shoots from the Bradford pear out front and jute twine to hold it together. December came. There was snow. The vine was long gone, but the cage hadn’t been cleared away.
Black and white photo. The ends of three small natural hardwood branches, placed vertically into a rough tripod, are bound with twine. The twine is old, faded, and loose. It is unraveling. Atop the rounds of twine, between the ends of the branches, a delicate shell of snow is lodged. The slightest breeze might remove it. The background is blurred, but trees and the roofline of a house are discernible.
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Suburban twilight. January 2026.

#sunsets #sky #roads #streets #headlights #evening #timesofday #clouds #suburbia
Color photo. In the bottom horizontal quarter of the frame: a suburban road at twilight receding toward a vanishing point and the last yellow-orange light of sunset. Cars with lighted headlights proceed toward the foreground. Telephone and electricity wires along the roadsides are silhouetted against the evening-blue sky, where an oversized but wispy gray cloud also sits prominently in frame center. The sky fills the top three-quarters of the frame. At bottom right is a lighted business, probably fast food. In the middle distance, bare trees are silhouetted.
January 16, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Show Me the Carrots.

#horses #animals #farmanimals #fences #black&white #silvertone
Black and white photo with silvertone filter applied. In medium close up, a white horse presses its nose against a wire fence, peering directly at the camera on the fence’s other side. Flat pasture ground, a few trees, and (in middle distance) a grazing dark-colored horse appear in the background. Cirrus clouds cover a portion of the sky.
January 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Karl Johans gate and the Royal Palace, Oslo.

#norway #famousstreets #europeancapitals #europeancities #palaces #oslo #black&whitephotgraphy
Black and white photo. Cobblestone street leads directly away and slightly uphill from the viewer toward symmetrical palace building in the distance. The sky is overcast but light. Urban businesses and a clock tower line the street on the right. Two Norwegian flags flutter high above the stores. Trees and a tall ornamental crook-shaped streetlight in a public park line street to the left.
January 14, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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A shop in Rome. Color or BW?
Color photo. Exterior view of a small grocery on a cobblestone street. The outside wall of the shop is brown stone. An open metal gate stands beside the shop’s double door. The interior of the shop is brightly lit, and colorful grocery items are visible on shelves and tables. A red bicycle is parked outside the shop, frame left, beneath a barred window into the shop. Black and white photo. Exterior view of a small grocery on a cobblestone street. The outside wall of the shop is stone. An open metal gate stands beside the shop’s double door. The interior of the shop is brightly lit, and grocery items are visible on shelves and tables. A bicycle is parked outside the shop, frame left, beneath a barred window into the shop.
January 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM