Brian Beker

She is a goddess.

I was almost going to say the same thing!

What a steal! Congrats on that. Such a good piece of kit.

Unbelievably cute dog.

Yes, I suppose if you don’t notice a difference there wouldn’t be any point.

A black and white photograph of the window of a dentist’s office in which a variety of dentures, medications, tools and religious sculptures are displayed.

Dentist’s office, Kathmandu

M6/50SM, Tri-X

#photography #filmphotography #Nepal

Too bad it’s so hard to get Ansco 130 there. A stunning developer, game changer. Also has amazing capacity. Never seems to go bad, and I’ve been trying. A liter of it only needs to be replaced when too much has been lost to draining. Gorgeous tonality. But the glycin is probably unobtainium there.

He’s one of my senators and I’ve already called to let him know how sick and tired I am of his playing both sides of the fence with magats. But this is Vermont, where you can’t drive 10 feet without falling into a pothole but they still elect a republican governor over and over again.

Now that’s how to write a headline.

A black and white photograph of a dusty lane in a Saharan desert oasis. Mud walls topped with palm fronds surround groves of date palms. A boy is mounted on a cute donkey while two of his younger friends hang around admiringly envying the older boy’s being allowed to drive.

A donkey and his friends, al-Farafra Oasis, Libyan Desert in the Egyptian north Sahara.

Nikon F, 50mm Nikkor-H, Tri-X

#photography #filmphotography #streetphotography

Thank you!

A black and white photograph of a vista of Himalayan mountains that rise to about 24,000 feet. In the foreground right, miniscule by comparison, is a barely visible Ladakhi village.

Imagine life in the village at 16,000 feet in the Himalayan foothills of Ladakh in the lower right of this photograph.

M6/50SM, Kodak Academy (bet you never heard of that stock)

#filmphotography #photography #landscape #Ladakh

A black and white photograph of a Bedouin woman. She wears a dark dress with a flower print, a sheer veil head covering, strands of pearl-like beads and a large nose ring.

A Bedouin lady in the Libyan Desert oasis of al-Farafra. She had never before in her life been photographed, but her husband’s astonishment at a Polaroid I took of him, prompted him to ask her to come out of the house, where she was keeping out of sight, for a picture.

#filmphotography #photography

A black and white photo of boy soldiers at attention, all looking frightened, intimidated. In the center is a particularly young boy looking sad and lost.

Darkroom print I made last night. These boys were forced into the army of opium warlord and heroin kingpin Khun Sa in Burma, a country where strife never ends and six-year-olds are dragged off to fight.

#filmphotography #photography #war

Superb. Well done!

FP400 is weird for me, BTW — I didn’t like it and couldn’t get it box speed in D-76, D-23, HC-110, Pyrocat-HD or Rodinal witout it looking like hell. In T-Max dev, it absolutely shines. That combo has made it one of my favorite films of all time.

This is stunning.

Hey, Tomasz - I might have found a solution for that. *Might*, because I have not tested enough, but… try water stop, no acid, very vigorous, cocktail shake during three rinses over 1 minute, then fix in TF-4, constant agitation 2M. So far, doing this, the black spots (on pos) are gone.

It used to be one of the best, along with Plus-X, but the reformulated stuff Kodak calls Tri-X now, which has no relation to the Tri-X of old, is just another middling low silver stock — but at least we get to pay extra for the name.

Far out, Chad! Wow.

Don’t worry. The Supreme Court will reinstate it along with a determination that they erred in the immunity decision as soon as a Dem gets elected.

Oh. My. God. This is pure Stalinism, the equivalent of refusing to issue internal passports. Unfuckingbelievable evil.

A photograph of a New Delhi school bus, which is a cabin on the back of a three-wheel push bike. The driver leans into trying to get the load of boys moving, while the leg and shoe of the last boy to board is dangling from the back.

Just making the school bus in New Delhi — printed in the kitchen sink darkroom tonight on Ilford fiber based paper, selenium toned.

#streetphotography #filmphotography #photography #India

That is terrific.

It's just the beginning. It’s going to be awful when half of all photos are AI and humanity gives up once having had a brain. In America the dumbing down ain’t even started yet and already it brought us trump. Bleak.

Somehow, it’s been blowing and looks ferocious, but we only ended up getting at most five inches! Tremendous stroke of luck. I’m working on the pictures I took today of poor little Pokling not enjoying it and will post them later...

Future presidential material

A little black bakelite film developing tank

A little box with three razor blades used to cut Minox film

Film takes a little effort and practice to cut and load yourself but it’s easy and developing is a piece of cake in one of these. Daylight loading, no dark room or bag necessary and it uses a tiny amount of chemistry. Instead of $20/roll for film, cost becomes something like a buck, film and dev

A black and white photograph of a snow covered stream, the only water a black pool in the foreground; the rest of the rocks are covered with sunshine and shadows on them

The stream outside

IIIf, 50 Elmar, FP400

#filmphotography #photography #landscape

Nce that Conway is anti-trump and anti-maga. But New Yorkers who mistake his candidacy as anything other than a republican wolf in sheep’s clothing are nuts. Conway would support continuation of low to zero taxes for the wealthy and the creation of more billionaires at the expense of everyone else.