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Mary Jo Richards
@mjrichards.bsky.social
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Teacher, reader, observer of people and the natural world, wife, cat mom, unapologetic liberal, feminist, queerdo, antiracist, neurodivergent who masquerades as a normie. Obsessed with the analog, particularly film cameras, typewriters & fountain pens.
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Fun with thermal prints
#toycameras
#photography
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The students’ photos are up. I had to hang them on the glass because our campus art gallery is occupied through next summer with exhibits that are not focused on student work. This outrages me, but more people will see the images here in the student lounge anyway even if they aren’t well lit.
Photo of a glass wall with student photos posted on it and interpetive signage off to the side. Closer shot of the students’ photos hanging on the glass Opposite wall of student photos hanging on the glass with interpretive signage to one side. Closer shot of the student images hanging on the glass.
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Well, it’s pictures…of a sort. Very #Holga, I think. I taped everything with gaff tape EXCEPT the frame count window. Apparently, I should have taped that, too. Light leaks everywhere!
📷 Holga 120N
🎞️ Fujifilm Neopan 400 (ex. 2010)
🧪 Caffenol (Delta STD)
📷 📲 Epson V600
#toycameras
#filmphotography
Bare trees against the clear sky. There is partially exposed film and a bleed through from the backing paper appearing ghostly in the sky reading “16). Vignetting at the corners and light leaks at the borders. Photo of a field with a wooden fence enclosing a runoff pond surrounded by trees. There are areas of light leaks at the borders of the photo. The center of the photo is sharp but the edges are soft. Looking down the sidewalk behind my building, most of which is in shadow, though the grass and trees are in the sun. Strong pattern of light leaks across the photo. Front of my building with a bare tree to the left of the frame. Also a strong light leaks at the lower left of the image. Vignetting at the corners.
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Taken with the #Kodak #Charmera using the gray pixel filter at what used to be a payphone outside my local post office.
#photography
#toycameras
A monochrome image of a payphone stripped of its phone and covered in band stickers. The bare handset wire protrudes from the middle of the kiosk.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Thanks to @baroncalamity.bsky.social I am now the owner of this Vivitar 300Z. He came across it in a thrift store for $9.99. And it happens to contain my favorite thing: a partially-exposed roll of mystery #film! Will it be pictures?? Also came in this groovy old MGM bag. From Vegas maybe?
A Vivitar 300Z, a 1980’s 35mm point-and-shoot autofocus film camera. A black vinyl camera/shoulder bag with the old MGM lion logo sewn onto it Film window on the back of the camera showing a 24-exposure roll of Kodak 200 film — but from when?
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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This is my most recent baby.
Yashica D TLR wearing a yellow Rollei filter
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Today would have been my parents’ 51st anniversary, but they have both been gone a long time now. Tonight I went to the thrift store where I just so happened to find this album which has their song on it, “You Needed Me,” a song I learned to play on guitar and sing for them when I was a kid.
Photo of the album cover of Anne Murray’s Let’s Keep It That Way.
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Put new leatherette on this pair of old beaters. They both could use a CLA, and one could use new light seals. The other has a frame counter that has stopped working. And yet, they take lovely photos, and I have a great set of lenses for them.
#filmphotography
#Yashica
A photo of a Yashica FX-7 SLR film camera on the left with new black leatherette and a Yashica FX-3 SLR film camera on the right with new red leatherette.
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I’m obsessed with this goofy little thing
Off-kilter selfie with the 1987 frame
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Nicky has no f**ks to give
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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The video quality on the #Charmera is surprisingly good. Obviously, I was quite mistaken. It DOES record audio. Rather clearly, too. LOL!
#photography
#videography
#toycameras
#Kodak
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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First few shots out of the #Charmera. Playing with filters and frames.
#photography
#toycameras
Photo of my cat Nicky shot with the red pixel filter Shot of some utility meters in the grey pixel filter A close-up of some leaves with the Charmera frame around it This is a no-filter photo of some trees sporting autumn colors
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Now my husband and I each own a Kodak #Charmera. They are so ridiculously tiny! Mine is the one on the right with his finger resting on it for scale.
#photography
#toycameras
Two Kodak Charmera blind boxes Two Kodak Charmeras unboxed. One has a man’s finger resting on top of it for scale. These are Type 3 and Type 4 from the 7 possible designs.
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Any of my #filmphotography people located in the US in the market for a vintage Nikor stainless daylight developing tank with a 120 reel and/or a Honeywell Nikor 35mm reel? Would gladly give you first dibs before I list them on eBay. DM me to talk price/shipping.
Stainless steel 120 film developing reel and stainless steel daylight developing tank, both by Nikor. Manufacturer’s stamp on the bottom of the Nikor daylight development tank indicating it was made in Springfield, Mass. A 36-exposure 35mm stainless steel developing film reel by Honeywell Nikor with original box.
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The images I got out of the second development with the #caffenol. Whole lotta contrast going on.
📷 Yashica D
🎞️ Arista Edu Ultra 200
📷 📲 Epson V600
#filmphotography
#mediumformat
#filmisnotdead
#believeinfilm
A fallen leaf on the forest floor A tangle of dried vines A shot upwards at a utility pole strung with power lines with trees behind it Looking down the hill through the woods
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Close-up work with the #PentaxAuto110
#110film
#macro
#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#filmisnotdead
#caffenol
Backlit leaf Cross section of a tree stump Close-up of a fire hydrant. The word “hydrant” is prominent. Close-up of a fallen leaf.
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Found: one mystery disc film negative in an old camera case that came in an auction I won a while back of ShopGoodwill.com. I couldn’t really figure out how to scan the images individually because of the angles, so I just scanned the whole thing to see what was on it. Let’s play Date that Film!
A scanned disc film negative containing images of family life. It is clearly decades old, but the question is which decade?
November 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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After the rain
📷 Yashica D
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 200
🧪 Caffenol (Harmony Recipe)
📷 📲 Epson V600
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#filmisnotdead
#Yashica
The cloudy sky is reflected in a pool of rainwater that has collected in the hollow of a boulder
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Postman’s coming. But is he bringing film?
📷 Yashica D
🎞️ Arista EDU Ultra 200
🧪 Caffenol (Harmony Recipe)
📷 📲 Epson V600
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#filmisnotdead
#Yashica
In the distance, a postal worker puts mail in mailboxes while his postal van idles in the parking lot of a condo development. Cars are parked out front of the buildings, and there is a dumpster in the foreground. The sky is cloudy.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I love it when a #Halloween falls on a school day. I offer extra credit for those who show up in costume, and I come to class in costume myself. I usually give away candy, but I am running late today, so that is not likely to happen this year. Anyway, here is my costume!
Middle-aged college professor dressed as a butterfly
October 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Some #autumn color before it fades away
📷 Canon Sure Shot Supreme
🎞️ Kodak Ultramax
🧪 Cinestill CS41
📷 📲 Plustek 8200i AI
#filmphotography
#believeinfiln
#filmisnotdead
#trees
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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@jameygallagher.bsky.social look what showed up on my doorstep just in time to keep me company during Spooky Week!
#americananimism
#books
#reading
A paperback copy of American Animism by Jamey Gallagher
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Here’s a shot off the color test roll from the Yashica D
A color photo of a parking space with a blue and white disability designation painted on it. The parking space is partially in shadow.
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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That is the first shot out of the Yashica D on the left and basically the same shot out of the Yashica 124G on the right. I made the correct call selling the 124G and buying the Yashica D instead.
#filmphotography
#mediumformat
#Yashica
Black and white photo of a stand of trees in autumn Hazy black and white photo of a stand of trees in autumn.
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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My new-to-me TLR, rehomed by @behindthebluemotel.com. It’s a little different than the 124G, so I’ll be playing with it, figuring it out, and running a couple of rolls through it—like you do.
#filmphotography
#mediumformat
#Yashica
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM