Weirdly we’re excited at the prospect of the @ShittyCameraChallenge starting over.

Having the #1990sCameraChallenge open to a smaller audience feels like the old days when we first started as a troll account & the prize was a Used Chicago CD. Everyone here is more activated & as eager as we are to make this work.

We’re grateful to all of you that followed us here from the dead bird site, & to all the new people we’ve connected with on Mastodon.

Let’s make art together. #ShittyCameraChallenge

This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.

The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.

The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.

Between the bunker and the boathouse

Canon P/ CV 25mm Skopar
Ferrania P30/ xtol 1+1

Slow film and a slowish lens on a dull day was interesting. I really like p30 I just need one less cup of coffee so I can keep a steady hand.

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Usually I don't post things older than the late Palaeolithic period, but #insects embedded in amber never cease to amaze me - the sheer age!
This praying #mantis enclosed in amber is some 30 million years old.

https://mymodernmet.com/praying-mantis-dominican-amber/