Gentleman Shutterbug

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Mostly analogue / chemical photography. Returned to film in 2020. Cameras used are Konica, Argus, Lomo, and FED for the most part. There will probably be very little "great" photography here, as I enjoy stumbling along the learning curve.

Image of 1920s Tarzan actor Frank Merrill in a leopard skin costume that covered him from his shoulders to his knees.
Image of a small, rather box shaped 1960s Kodak Instamatic camera with a flash cube mounted on top.
AI actually made me get over my fear of making bad art, because at least if it sucks, I still made it.
Winged flying device from da Vinci's notebooks, part of a larger exhibit at the Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI.
Image of a black shihpoo with a white crest wearing a light blue kerchief.
A Marathon gas station with the electronic price replaced with the words "Just Walk."
A Little Caesar's Pizza franchise with the "Caesar" part of the sign taken down, illustrating the conçept of "No Caesars."
Image of actor David Carradine in the 1970s television series Kung Fu.
Image of a Magic Eightball. "My reply is no," it says.
Image of an old, doughy guy in his sixties posing by Central Camera's small vintage sign that boasts selling "Kodak Cameras Film."
Screen capture of a link to an online story titled "Ten old-school hobbies boomers grew up with that are trending again." The accompanying graphic shows a couple in their 70s in a convertible. https://geediting.com/d-old-school-hobbies-boomers-grew-up-with-that-are-now-trending-again/
Scary twins from the movie The Shining.
A shih tzu mix lying down in his bed with a Russian Chaika II camera near his paws.
Image of a long dirt walking trail winding through a thick forest.
Small oil pastel portrait of 1930s starlet Jean Rogers in my sketchbook.
Image of a Pentax Spotmatic camera with a Helios 44-2 lens.
An empty minor league baseball stadium before the start of the season.
Construction downtown behind the old Lincoln Life building. The sign can be seen on top of the building from the back, with the letters reversed.
Looking down a busy street covered with large signs for restaurants and other businesses. In the middle distance, an enormous three pronged fork rises up fifty feet from the ground, skewering a sign for Mister Coney hot dogs.
Image of David Spade from 'Joe Dirt.'
A view of 1920s brick work and windows, along with a few bicycle racks.
A rusted old gas pump with its panels beginning to pop open. It is kept just inside of a chain link fence at an auto mechanic's shop.
Image of a long, rectangular factory building from the 1920s. It was the original home of Wayne Bun Candy. A large, unreadable sign covers the front of the building. The building now houses offices and an event center.
A "mom and pop" grocery called Pio Market II (Pio I is long out of business). The storefront originally housed a Kroger in the 1920s.
Image of my left leg. Over the bandage is a wrap that circulates cold water, cooling the wound.
Franklin Booth drawing of trees and clouds.
Image of Gentleman Shutterbug in a hospital bed.
Image of a young man who worked at a healthy pet food store. The photo was taken during the early days of the pandemic, and he is wearing a mask.
A bicycle and walking path going under a busy urban overpass. The constant roar of traffic, muffled as it works its way through steel and asphalt. Darkness and strange comfort exist in this place. The world is mad with activity above.
A 1930s style water tower standing tall behind a number of old warehouse buildings.
Five bucket trucks all in a 4ow in a parking lot, with their buckets all extended upwards, like a row of giraffes all looking curiously in one direction.
Looking through a window out onto a residential lake. We see an Adirondack chair on the deck, just outside of the window. A metal sculpture is in the yard. Finally, there is the expanse of the lake itself, with a thick forest far across, on the other side.
Roman arches, with elaborate faux medieval stonework mimicking the pattern of a cathedral's rose window in the arch's upper corners, topped with a gargoyle -- a lion's head sprouting dragon wings.
Sign for a long closed burger joint, Big Guy Burgers & Fries. The design is mid-century, built around tall, inverted triangles and horizontal rectangles.
A small dog, a shih Tzu poodle mix, sits with his back to us as he stares intently out of a metal storm door.
Image of architectural details on an old 1930s factory building that has boarded up windows.
Image of a young man buying a treat at a shaved ice stand, with another image laid over it.
A house painted slate blue seen with green shrubbery.
Image of several bucket trucks in a parking lot with their arms in different positions, overlapping one another.
Classic cars and bicycles on display at a summer festival. Three cars are in the background, two bikes in the foreground. Tape is strung between the cars & bikes to separate them.
A mural in an older urban neighborhood featuring the faces of Batman and the Joker from the movie "The Dark Knight."
Image of a tree on a snowy day, with special attention on the gentle trail of snow on the trunk and branches.
Image of the grounds of a college campus as seen from the fourth floor of a parking garage. There is a large parking lot with only a few cars in the foreground. A large theater building takes up the right side of the image.
Long icicles nearly touching the ground at an IHOP.
Inside of an automated car wash, a Cookie Monster doll is tied to a post -- supposedly to calm children -- but is beaten and tortured by sprays of water and gusts of air, which is pretty scary stuff.
At the end of summer, a weathered old fishing pier has been pulled out of the lake.
A 200+ year old Osage orange tree, massive in height and width. Part of the tree fell, but continues to grow.
A large, modern, but still very rustic log cabin. Someone is climbing the front steps up to a large front porch.
Image of a new pickup truck parked along a street in an older neighborhood strewn with leaves.
Image of a two story brick retail building, probably built in the 1930s. The large front window has been boarded up. It is probably being used as an apartment building today.
Close up of a large shopping center sign that lists four businesses. The top sign, which was the largest, has had its logo removed since the store has gone out of business. Only a ghost image remains.