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Bill Koechling

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full-time photographer for 50+ years, listening to your stories... “The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” –Robert Doisneau

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Wow! That's so nice.

05.03.2026 14:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." –Dwight Eisenhower

05.03.2026 14:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same as ICE in the US.

05.03.2026 13:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." –Dwight Eisenhower

05.03.2026 13:11 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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We shouldn't be surprised at this administration's incompetence.

05.03.2026 04:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rather than being in the White House should he be in hospice care?

04.03.2026 22:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When you hear such a sound look above. Far above. You will see thousands of sandhill cranes returning from their stay in the South. And now you will remember that it's Sarah's birthday!

Happy Birthday, Sarah!

04.03.2026 05:21 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We can always tell when it's Sarah's birthday, or very close to her birthday. We can hear it in the distant and persistent cackling bugle sound coming from the sky.

04.03.2026 05:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

...yeah, and calling it a "defensive" action

03.03.2026 17:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds like Peach Prize material to me.

02.03.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wow!

01.03.2026 19:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Most of the world knows this. Somehow T has not absorbed any historical context.

01.03.2026 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When we again see helicopters being pushed off the decks of aircraft carriers we'll know T has won his 9th war.

28.02.2026 18:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967 YouTube video by PettyYou007

youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...

28.02.2026 13:31 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

and those are nice and "weighty"

28.02.2026 13:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

IOW, "they have weapons of mass destruction."

28.02.2026 13:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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young artist

© 2024 William Koechling

28.02.2026 05:01 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you, Jaycee.

27.02.2026 21:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s a nice day in the Chicago area.

27.02.2026 20:45 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Excellent choice!

27.02.2026 18:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ANOTHER first lady knew Epstein pretty well. Maybe she should be interviewed.

26.02.2026 21:17 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Well, she got the Blues Brothers to be filmed in Chicago...

26.02.2026 20:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To be honest, human oversight hasn't been that great recently but LAWS is certainly not the answer to anything.

26.02.2026 14:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for another excellent IG follow. I was not aware of his work.

26.02.2026 14:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Chicago mayor was defeated in a Dem. primary because of poor handling of a major blizzard in 1979. Maybe Mamdani learned from history.

26.02.2026 14:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I remember my then 3-yo granddaughter coming up to me and saying, "I'm invisible!"

26.02.2026 03:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was the boa's bath. He wasn't sharing.

26.02.2026 03:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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boa bath time

© 1973 William Koechling

26.02.2026 02:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There were four very large floors with everything you could possibly need for still and motion picture photography.

26.02.2026 00:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you were a photographer in Chicago in the 70s you knew Altman Camera Shop on South Wabash Ave... even if you bought your photo equipment down the street at Central Camera.

© 1972 William Koechling

26.02.2026 00:23 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0