Abstract somewhat symmetrical vase shape taken from openclipart.org/355989 optimized with SVGOMG.

icpcat posted a photo:

Cave's Clock. April2026. Newly renovated, the reflection is of the Union Plaza Building. This clock is a historic landmark located at the intersection of Main Street and Capitol Avenue in downtown Little Rock. Originally erected in the early 1930s by Thomas M. Cave, owner of Cave’s Jewelers, the old clock has neon lighting and is a symbol of the city's downtown history. Fomapan100push400. FujicaST801. M42-Fujinon55mm. PolarizingFilter. DiafineDeveloper5+5. Washed:AGOFilmProcessor. CameraScan:FujifilmXH1.

Paul Kearley posted a photo:

Photograph by Ivan Finbow. The date the photo was taken is unknown. A digitally restored image from an original negative in my collection.

Two peacocks, some decoration. Birds are perfectly symmetrical, the center elements are not. Found on page 8 of https://archive.org/details/KeramicstudioXIV/page/18/mode/2up?q=peacock - Keramic Studio - A Monthly Magazine For The China Painter And Potter - Volume Fourteen - May, 1912 to April, 1913 Inclusive - Keramic Studio Publishing Co. Syracuse, N. Y. - May 1912 - Design for Peacock Stencil - To be used as a medallion or motif for continuous border in one color. Byzantine in design. Found after inspired by Two sleek ladies by Cyanocorax (openclipart.org/355953) Traced using GIMP to clean up some scratches, Adobe Illustrator for SVG conversion, some simplification using https://herrstrietzel.github.io/svg-path-simplify/ then manual rotation and cleanup in Inkscape and optimization in SVGOMG.

Andrew B. Barkhatov posted a photo:

Light splits the second,
two faces check themselves —
the world writes a formula.

The Bolshoi Theatre has stood for centuries, hosting operas about gods, tsars, and tragic lovers. Today, it hosts two girls checking if their hair looked good in the last photo. The fountain throws water into the air—a useless, beautiful gesture, not unlike the act of taking a selfie. They lean over the glowing rectangle, seeking validation from pixels, while the 1963 Zeiss Ikon watches them through a layer of expired Soviet silver. The film doesn't care about their angles. The film only cares about the light. "Well, what pictures have we got?" we ask. The pictures we got are of people asking what pictures they got. A perfect, closed loop of modern existence, frozen in the grain of a dying factory's last breath. The theatre waits. The water falls. The screen scrolls.

⚙️ Technical credits:
Location: Russia. Moscow. Theatre Square (Fountain at the Bolshoi Theatre)
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Colora (1963)
Lens: Novicar 50mm f/2.8-f/22
Focus: Zone focusing (approximately 1.5m—the distance of self-reflection)
Film: Svema A-2Sh (expired 2003)
Date: 13.05.2017
Scanner: Epson Stylus Photo RX500
Philosophy: "The pictures we got are of people asking what pictures they got"

Guewald posted a photo:

Arthouse699 posted a photo:

Flower illustration found in a <i>Design</i> magazine from ca. 1935. This was a magazine for potters and decorators edited by Keramic Studio Publishing Co.

C&C52 posted a photo:

Mamiya Leaf Aptus ii 12 + Schneider lens.

D_M_J posted a photo:

Some more film shots from around the paddock at VSCC Curborough, and what a great way to start the speed season! Love the relaxed atmosphere at this event and one of my favourite paddocks to photograph too.

Decided to only shoot black and white on the day, mostly with the Hasselblad but there will be some much older camera stuff to come too...

Camera // Hasselblad 500CM
Film // Ilford FP4
Developer // Ilfotec HC (B)
Scan // Camera scan

hayksenekerimyan posted a photo:

Where Silence Learns to Speak.
Some places don’t ask you to move on — they simply ask you to stay still for a while.
Black-and-white moments have a way of turning silence into memory.

A pattern of birds and clouds from the magazine <i>Art–Goût–Beauté</i>, 1928. <i>Art–Goût–Beauté, Feuillets de l'élégance féminine</i>, aka <i>AGB</i>, and later on <i>AGB Voici la mode</i>, was a french luxury magazine about women's fashion, published in Paris, and active from 1920 to 1937. This very expensively made magazine was published by the owner of a textile factory, and it shows in the endpapers, which displayed fabric patterns in color. This one was printed only in blue, and comes from issue No. 99 (November 1928). Found in the Wikimedia Commons repository, here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art_-_Go%C3%BBt_-_Beaut%C3%A9,_Feuillets_de_l%27_%C3%A9l%C3%A9gance_f%C3%A9minine,_Novembre_1928,_No._99,_9e_Ann%C3%A9e,_schutblad,_RP-P-2009-1921-1A.jpg ...placed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication license. With a little extra work, this pattern can be made to tile.