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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 19/09/2026

French Market, New Orleans, 2019 #Photography #NewOrleans #StreetPhotography Another photo that I realized I've never shared before. I like this one. We were staying in the French Quarter, so I got up around daybreak and wandered around. They were just hosing down Bourbon Street...

A worker at the French Market in New Orleans waits for the morning to begin. He's reclined in a seat surrounded by chairs on tables. Color photo.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 03/09/2026

Not that this is a great photo, though I do like it for some reason. But this retaining wall and the trees you see above it were torn out last week, and this arrangement of things and light will never happen again. The most mundane photos become documents of their time. #BelieveInFilm #Photography

Shadows and branches and the sun doing something to a retaining wall.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 02/09/2026

I put up some new shelves and it pleased me to put my cameras on display temporarily. I’ll return most of them to a dust-free drawer when I get over the novelty of having a spot that fits them all. The Rolleiflex is my favorite. #BelieveInFilm

Collection of film cameras from 1949 to about 1999.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 17/08/2026

Flood, Wisconsin, April 2026 #BelieveInFilm (Nikon FE, Double XX)

The end of the street abuts a park, the flood waters reflect, the shapes of bare trees are metastasizing. Black and white.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 08/08/2026

Tis International Cat Day and our cat, Babushka, is second to none. We've been calling these the Babushka years. #Caturday #InternationalCatDay #BlackCats

World's most perfect cat on a bed with a floral duvet cover, a plush Octopus in the background. Oh, and a Monstera.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 02/08/2026

This is the kind of warm fuzzies it's nice to get for a blog post called, "I was a teenage Camper Van Beethoven wannabe." #CamperVanBeethoven alexgalt.com/2026/07/19/i...

Screenshot that says: "Jonathan Segel liked your post I was a teenage Camper Van Beethoven wannabe..."

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 29/07/2026

*died This is a good album, if you need a rec:

Cover of Didn’t He Ramble by Glen Hansard

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 29/07/2026

Just learned that Glen Hansard died today in a motorbike crash, 56 years old. In addition to being a great songwriter, he was a great interpreter of Jason Molina’s songs. I loved him for shining a light on another artist who does too damn young.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 24/07/2026

The Ridges are magical. If you're near Door County, you should check them out. Here are a few photos I've taken there over the years. #Wisconsin #DoorCounty #Photography #TheRidges #NatureImitatingArt #Rolleiflex #FujiXT1

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 16/07/2026

This is unconscionable. I've been to Chaco Canyon twice and it's incredible. Tthe landscape is part of the meaning, there really can't be a "buffer zone" large enough. Filling this it with oil wells would be an obscenity. Consider leaving a public comment. #BelieveInFilm #Rolleiflex

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 01/05/2026

Here's a photo I took with a Tourist, looks like I might have had a little trouble getting the film on to the reel (early days). Having one of these more or less fall into my lap is what set me back on the path of film. It's a basic camera, but Kodak always knew how to deliver the goods.

Picture of Brown County Wisconsin's courthouse.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 13/04/2026

Here's a #FoundPhoto for Sunday evening. This gent and his (presumably) grandchild had their photo taken in 1919. I was taken with it because you don't often see casual photography of this quality around. Picked it up in an antique mall! The context of the photo suggests this is in Green Bay, Wisc.

This is an old print from 1919 that I found. It's a fine looking gent seated in a garden with a grandchild on his knee.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 01/02/2026

I love making these, they're kind of magical. We fell in love with my father-in-law's Kodachrome stereo slides of the family from the 1950s, so I picked up a Kodak Stereo Camera. This is from this past summer, up here in Wisconsin.

Stereogram of a teenager jumping off a cliff along the Niagara Escarpment into Lake Michigan.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 28/12/2025

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. "millions now living will never die" by Tortoise, it happens to be what I'm listening to right now. This one really redefined what a band could be for me.

The wonderful, printed cover of millions now living will never die by Tortoise.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 15/12/2025

Yellow Horse, Arizona, October 2022

A statue of a yellow horse atop a souvenir stand, red rocks in the background.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 15/12/2025

I have no clue where this was, somewhere in Arizona? I really would like to step physically into this photo right now...

Trees, somewhat bare against a verdant background of foliage.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 15/12/2025

Garden of the Gods, Colorado, October 2022 #BelieveInFilm #Colorado #KodakGold #AgfaIsoletteL It's biggest issue is flare.

This is a photo of a woman crouching down quite athletically to take a photo of an older man who is doing the thing where it looks like he may be pushing a rock.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 15/12/2025

Outside Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, October 2022 #BelieveInFilm #NewMexico #KodakGold #AgfaIsoletteL In Wisconsin, we would have built a state park around this. In New Mexico, it was just our AirBnB's backyard. I've been going back through stuff I shot with the Isolette... not a bad camera!

Photo of a rocky outcropping in New Mexico.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 06/12/2025

The rocket pistol wasn’t harmless. That’s my diagnosis.

Ad from a Sears catalog of the late 1930s. A child is brandishing a toy rocket gun.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 02/12/2025

Water Park, 2025 Once there was a water park, now it's a peaceful oasis... Bronica ETR, 200mm f4.5 Zenzanon-MC, Kodak Gold #BelieveInFIlm #IShootFilm #Wisconsin

This is what was a sign for a water park, the shape of a wave is still discernible. It's lost in the trees though. Color photo.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 19/11/2025

Look how lame and disingenuous Rep. Tony Wied (WI-08) is... Here's a screen shot of an email I just received in which he's giving Republicans the credit for the Epstein File transparency bill. Can't wait to vote this guy out. #Wisconsin #TonyWIed #WI08 #EpsteinFiles

Screen shot of an email from Tony Wied with the following bit highlit: "It is also important to note that this vote took place while Republicans control all three branches of government. Although Democrats joined us in voting to release the files yesterday, their policies did not address the issue prior to President Trump taking office."

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 11/11/2025

Wigwam Exhibit, Wisconsin 2025 (Bronica ETR, 75mm f2.8 Zenzanon-MC, Kodak Gold 200) #BelieveInFIlm #FilmIsNotDead #Wisconsin

Color photograph of a small, tan building. It has a door with the label: "Wigwam Exhibit"

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 10/11/2025

Marigolds, 2025 (Rolleiflex, Gold 200) Marigolds are the flower of resistance. #BelieveInFilm

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 07/11/2025

For #FountainPenDay2025... I’ve been using refillable fountain pens since 2017. It was another thing I could stop treating as disposable. (I used to blow through Pilot G-2s.) These are more fun. I’ve misplaced 2 pens, but thrown away 0. I’ve IDed these in the alt text if you’re curious.

A collection of 6 fountain pens. From the left: Esterbrooke “Dollar Pen” (1940s), Kaweco Brass Sport, Kaweco Sport, Lamy Safari, Pilot Metropolitan, Faber-Castell Hexo

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 25/10/2025

Honeycrisp, all the way. You just need to get them at The Apple Store, where they sell number 2s more cheaply because they have invisible faults. (A friend of mine from out of town once needed an iPhone cable and was led here by Google maps!)

A small shack in a commercial district. In white type across the front, it says "The Apple Store." Except it's a place where you buy apples, not computers. They do have Macintoshes though.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 25/09/2025

I’m drawing strength from this fugitive tomato plant, growing from a crack in an alley downtown… I hope it bears fruit before the freeze. #MetaphorsAreEverywhere

A rogue tomato plant growing from a crack in an alley

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 21/09/2025

The selfie I've been using is approaching double digits, so I thought I'd upload a new one that's more reflective of what I look like today, namely grayer and more beardier.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 01/08/2025

Idling at an antique mall, a man comes across a little yellow Kodak box. "What is it?" he says and takes it off the shelf. It's a lens hood, yellow filter, and UV filter made to fit his Kodak from 1954. "This is the kind of consumerism I can get behind," he murmured to himself. #BelieveInFilm

Kodak Retina Ib and matching accessories

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 06/07/2025

Finally getting around to developing and scanning some film. Here are a few. Fishermen, Freighter, Fox River, #GreenBay, 2025 (Canon LTM 35mm f/2) Frozen Waterfall, #GreenBay, 2025 (Nikkor 35mm f/2) Wetland, #DoorCounty, 2025 #KodakXX #HC110 ###FilmIsNotDead, #BelieveInFilm #Wisconsin #IShootFilm

Fishermen, Fox River, Green Bay, May 2025. Black and white photo, you can see the silhouettes of two fishermen and a public sculpture. In the background there is a freighter moving things into a warehouse facility. The Fox River is a working river that gets lake freighter traffic from all over, occasionally we get international ships too.

Forest wetland scene. Hard to discern, if not impossible where the land and the water split. Trees and reflections complicate things.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 02/07/2025

I found a data point! The AP US History test breaks time into periods, period 9 is 1980 to the present. Seems like our brightest kids know very little about it… 10% answered each of those questions correctly.

Screenshot of a tweet from the head of the AP test.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 15/06/2025

New acquisition to the vintage flood photo collection. 1967 trailer park, not sure where. #foundphotography

A handful of people move towards their trailers, which have been flooded. Black and white.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 29/04/2025

We celebrated Pinhole Photography Day by making a camera with Nick D. at the Photo Opp in Appleton, WI. On Sunday, the youngest and I did a photowalk in an industrial part of town. Very cool. The populist takes 120 film. Here are the plans: tinyurl.com/mpdxh8w #BelieveInFilm #Wisconsin #IShootFilm

Nick, the man who showed us how to build his wonderful pinhole camera design at the Photo Opp in Appleton.

Mysterious reflection in the window of an industrial building.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 13/04/2025

Fisherman, Everglades City, 2007 (Nikon D50, Nikkor 70-300mm f4.0-5.6) #Photography #Florida Every now and then it's worthwhile to go for a trawl in your archives. Somehow this photo had ever stood out to me until today.

South Florida fisherman, Everglades City. He's at the end of a dock getting smoke in his eyes and not catching a thing.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 20/03/2025

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:

Black and white portrait of Gertrude Stein

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 16/03/2025

At an estate sale last year, I came across a stack of binders filled with cut, paper snowflakes.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 14/03/2025

New acquisition to the flood collection: Ohio River, Evansville, IN. 1948 #photography #foundphotography #evansville #indianahistory alexgalt.com/portfolio/fl...

Black and white photo of three men on a set of stairs. One is looking out over the flooded city. Another peers through binoculars. A third is sitting on the steps and looking a little miserable. This is a flood in 1948.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 11/03/2025

New acquisition to the collection! The 1948 Vanport flood was a manmade disaster that displaced 18,000 and killed 15. This is why you've ever been to Vanport, OR. This was wartime public housing. I'm impressed with how sharp this photo is, the details are great. #photography #Oregon #FoundPhoto

Black and white postcard/photo of the 1948 Vanport Flood.

Detail from black and white postcard/photo of the 1948 Vanport Flood.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 07/02/2025

The lens is absolutely great. These are the Schneider-Kreuznach 50mm Retina-Xenar f2.8.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 02/02/2025

Does the Kodak Stereo Camera count for the #ShittyCameraChallenge? It might be too nice. If you put your face right up to this picture and kind of focus through it letting your brain do its thing.... the pelican might bite you. It takes a little practice, but it's very cool. #BelieveInFIlm

Black and white stereogram of a statue of a pelican.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 31/01/2025

So after grappling with my job status in light Trump’s EO for a week (I still have a job on Monday), I took some personal time yesterday and f’ed off to the territories. I’m grateful to live in a beautiful place, to have a pastime that brings me joy, and a community. #BelieveInFilm #Wisconsin

The Niagara Escarpment (a small piece of it) framed in the waist level viewfinder of a Bronica ETR.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 30/01/2025

The Robert Longo exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum is really something. These are some gorgeous monuments and sign posts. Don’t miss it! #pinkskyPost

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 21/01/2025

@behindthebluemotel.com I’m pretty excited about this! Thanks for the help!

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 21/01/2025

I'm in the United States

Screen shot showing that instagram allows you to search for Republicans but not democrats.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 17/01/2025

The Ridges III, Door County, Wisconsin, 2024. Since it's #scape day, here's a "swalescape." A swale is a linear depression between two ancient lakeshores. #BelieveInFIlm #Wisconsin #DoorCounty #Rolleiflex

This is a square, black and white image of a swale.

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Alex Galt @alexgalt.com · 12/01/2025

For the #ShittyCameraChallenge, I resurrected a family Kodak Brownie 2a and shot a roll of #IlfordHP5. I'd definitely do it again, I think I finally got the knack of the spacing. Shooting with this century old box camera is so anti-climactic, it barely makes a snick. #IShootFilm #BelieveInFilm.

Side of a structure in Ephraim, WI that people like to deface with their names.

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