Duncan Petrie

@duncanpetrie.com

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25 y/o photographer, writer, web dev. From Milwaukee, now in London. I take pictures and put them on https://duncanpetrie.com

A bumblebee on the carpet, drinking honey from a big black spoon
The shadow of a street lamp on a cinder block wall. The edge of the shadow is greenish and fuzzy.
An analog photograph of the English Channel as seen from the train. The horizon is sharp but the waves are blurred by the speed of the train. The sea is dark, scattered by rain and cloud-broken light.
Photo of Robert Macfarlane and Horatio Clare on stage at the book launch of “Is a River Alive?” They are very far away because Duncan (photographer) is sitting in the nosebleeds
Daft Punk’s Around the World rumbles out from the scrolling midi logs of Katie’s web browser, coursing through the tunnels of the Web Audio API and shaking the walls of the Everyman Cinema in Leeds.
In a shocking twist of dramatic irony, Duncan finds himself writing alt text about a photograph of a slide about alt text. Ekphrastic Poetry as Alt Text, reads the slide. Alt text can be vivid, dramatic, a verbal as well as emotional representation of a visual work.
Analog black and white photograph of bare, spindly trees leaning over a fast, shallow stream in the New Forest National Park in the UK.
Analog black and white photograph of the reflection of bare, spindly trees on the surface of a fast, shallow stream in the New Forest National Park in the UK.
Horizontally blurred photograph of the North Atlantic at dusk.
Horizontally blurred photograph of the North Atlantic at dusk.
Horizontally blurred photograph of the North Atlantic at dusk.
Analog photograph, half cut-off by burn line, of eleven chimneys in front of a big blue sky
A cmyk screenprint of a photograph of a pebble beach. There are three tufts of sea kale growing on the otherwise empty beach. The pebbles are yellow-orange and the sea kale is green and the sea is green and the sky is blue and flecked with clouds.
Reflection of a tree in the glass of a map case, at Harrington Beach State Park in Wisconsin.
12x8in cmyk screenprint of a photograph taken on a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin. Zoom in for halftone pattern!
12x8in cmyk screenprint of a photograph taken on a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin. Zoom in for halftone pattern!
Wooden posts in the sand on a Lake Michigan beach in January.
Horizontally blurred photograph (1/40th sec) of Lake Michigan at dawn on January 1st, 2025, a sheet of lame boring clouds blocking the sun.
A very blue sky between two trees. Regents Park, London.