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sbphoto
@sbiessel.com
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Photographer, wanderer, and house cat manager in Omaha, NE, USA. I'm interested in documenting human-altered landscapes, land use, urban sprawl, or whatever I find on walks. he/his

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Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics #UrbanLandscapes
Train cars sit idle on tracks behind a row of leafless trees. Part of a road is visible in the foreground in front of the trees. An arrow on the road mirrors the bent trunk of a tree behind.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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In the shadow of the Cold Storage Lofts

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#Photography #KansasCity #NewTopographics
A billboard sign facing the camera towers over a raised highway onramp and city streets. Only the legs of the billboard are visible, the top is cut off by the top of the image frame. A parking lot lined with hedges, leafless trees, and a vacant lot with a large brick warehouse building in the distance.
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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Kansas City, MO. December 2025.

#Photography #NewTopographics #KansasCity
Three concrete blocks sit in front of trees and an concrete wall. A face is drawn on the closest block to the camera. Two smoke stacks from a factory or power plant are visible in the distance behind the trees. Trees in the foreground mirror the stacks.
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Lone wolf

1/3 A new entry to my Words series (working title). My friend Rhys was showing me around St. Paul when I first saw this image. I let out an audible “oh shit” when I saw the bike.

St. Paul, MN. November 2025.

#NewTopographics #StPaul #Photography
A broken pink and teal colored bike sits beside two concrete road barriers. Spray paint reading "lone wolf" is written on one of the barriers. A yellow, blue, and pink light rail train advertising Planned Parenthood is visible behind. A lone figure walking away is visible on the sidewalk in the distance behind the barriers.
January 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Hell comes home

Working through a new batch of photographs from a New Year's trip to Kansas City.

Kansas City, MO. January 2026.

#NewTopographics #KansasCity #Photography
"Hell comes home" is spray painted beside other graffiti on a concrete platform. A freight train passes the platform on the left.
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Seeing old bowling alleys makes me nostalgic for my youth

I think we went bowling a total of three or four times as kids

I wonder what that means

Windom, MN. November 2025.

#Photography #Minnesota #NewTopographics
A long building with a curved roof painted in beige colors of green, brown, and red sits in a snowy landscape under a silvery white and blue sky. A sign above a door in the center of the image reads" Bowling Arcade" in weathered lettering. The building appears closed. Bowling ball shapes line the side of the building leading to the door.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Maximum Clearance

Omaha, NE. November 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography
Off-kilter view of a closed door to a parking garage with a fence in the foreground separating the entrance to the garage from the sidewalk. An alley behind the garage and taller building are visible in the far left of the image. The late afternoon sun creates several angular shadows from the intersecting lines created by all of the structures.
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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hmm, now wondering if the original 3:2 aspect ratio works better than the 4:3 crop.
3:2 aspect ratio crop. A sign advertising pre-ordering holiday pies sits beside a highway sign near a highway. Red circular road barriers sit between the signs. A closed gas station with green trim sits behind these two signs.
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Pre order your holiday pies now

Route 169, MN. November 2025.

#Photography #NewTopographics #Minnesota
A sign advertising pre-ordering holiday pies sits beside a highway sign near a highway. Red circular road barriers sit between the signs. A closed gas station with green trim sits behind these two signs.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Stumbled upon this scene waiting for a city bus. Minneapolis, MN. November 2025.

PS, anyone know what painting this is?

#Minneapolis #Photography
A storefront window with two panes of glass along a sidewalk. The right pane has a for lease sign. The right pane features a classical or baroque painting of a woman running with a hand outstretched while a woman crawls next to her. A pair of sneakers sits on the sidewalk below the painting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I was admiring how the late afternoon sun was glinting off this orange lettering and wouldn't you know it--this guy in orange glasses walked by. I asked for a photograph.

Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A man stands against a textured wall facing the low evening sun. He is wearing large yellow glasses, a white shirt, and black pants. There large orange lettering is on his left. The edge of the building and a street is visible on the far right of the frame.
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Omaha, NE. November 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography
The back of three signs along a parking lot are illuminated in the light from the setting sun. The skyline of a downtown mostly comprised of old brick buildings is visible in the background. One prominent six-story building is illuminated by the sun as well. Above, a dark blue sky is partly clouded.
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A row of large power lines stretch into the distance over prairie land. The power line in the foreground cuts a path through trees.
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Pyro Joe's

Kansas City, KS. October 2025.

#KansasCity #Photography #BelieveInFilm
Front of a two-story brick building with heavily weathered white paint. "Pyro Joe's Fireworks" is written on the building in hand-painted letters.
October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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In memory of Janet Lee North.

I don't know who Janet Lee North was. I stumbled upon this beautiful cross with her name under a railroad bridge. An internet search yields a few brief paragraphs about her death in 2023. No obituary. I'm sure she was a lot more.

Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha
A wooden cross with the words "Janet Lee North" inscribed sits under a railroad bridge. Grass in front of the lens partially obstructs the view of the cross.
October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#KansasCity #NewTopographics #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A beige-colored grain elevator-like building towers over a metal warehouse building and tractor trailers. Black skid marks from tires curve on the pavement in the foreground toward the elevator.
October 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#KansasCity #Photography #BelieveInFilm
A woman walks around the base of a cylindrical marble column. Cut off words on the column appear to read "The World War Country." The skyline of Kansas City is visible in the distance in front of the woman.
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Three guys I met walking that wanted a photo

Omaha, NE. September 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #BelieveInFilm
Three men pose for the camera in front of a highway overpass. Each makes different signs with their hands.
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Omaha, NE. October 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #NewTopographics
"You a Hoe!!!" written in graffiti on the yellow boarded up window to single-story building. A line of power lines above an empty lot fills the right part of the frame.
October 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Omaha, NE. October 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography #NewTopographics
A closed single story building featuring mid-century architecture faces an empty lot and street lights. "Freedom" is written in capitalized letters on the side of the building.
October 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#KansasCity #Photography #NewTopographics
Four workers in orange on a raised platform above the entrance to a bank, viewed through the frame of the orange brick walls of an alley.
October 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Found today under the Lewis and Clark Viaduct in Kansas City. Tempted to try to find it back tomorrow and then frame it.

#KansasCity
Crude drawing of women stick figures among black, yellow, and red scribbles on a weathered piece of cardboard.
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Headed to Kansas City to do some urban landscape photography. Got any favorite spots?

#KansasCity #Photography
Two Nikon SLRs and a Hasselblad camera next to a Kavu bag on a wood floor.
October 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Working on the spreads for a new zine. The wildest diptychs sometimes just come out of seemingly nowhere.

Los Angeles area, 2015.

#LosAngeles #Photography
An elderly man looks down at the camera while walking down a ritzy avennue of designer stores. He is wearing large red glasses and a red sweater that reads "MCM." Graffiti of a cartoon bunny with sharp teeth, red eyes and a bloody knife next to several Disney-themed castle pinatas along a dirty weathered wall.
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Omaha, NE. October 2025.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets #Photography
A white squiggly line is spray painted onto a black scrim on a chain link fence. An old brick building is visible above the fence. Two window frames in the building are visible on the left and right sides of the image just above the fence. They are decorated with white diagonal lines on a black background.
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM