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  • Same as it Ever was Michael A Lawrence
    Michael A Lawrence posted a photo: Taken at the same time as my previous photo, only this was the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera. I keep two of these Hawkeyes under the passenger seat of my vehicle, one with 100 and the other with 400 speed film. I loaded this role of HP5+ on New Years Day....this last exposure was made at the end of May. I've not been shooting quite as much as I normally do. Two very different cameras that arrived at kind of the same place when it was all said and done.
     
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Same as it Ever was

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By: Michael A Lawrence
6 June 2026 at 15:27

Michael A Lawrence posted a photo:

Same as it Ever was

Taken at the same time as my previous photo, only this was the Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera. I keep two of these Hawkeyes under the passenger seat of my vehicle, one with 100 and the other with 400 speed film. I loaded this role of HP5+ on New Years Day....this last exposure was made at the end of May. I've not been shooting quite as much as I normally do.
Two very different cameras that arrived at kind of the same place when it was all said and done.

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  • “Luminous Metric of the Moment” (Tasma Isopan-Chrome Type 42) Andrew B. Barkhatov
    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
     
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“Luminous Metric of the Moment” (Tasma Isopan-Chrome Type 42)

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By: Andrew B. Barkhatov
11 June 2026 at 03:19

Andrew B. Barkhatov posted a photo:

“Luminous Metric of the Moment” (Tasma Isopan-Chrome Type 42)

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.

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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"

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