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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 1h

I have a Venn and I must block

A Venn diagram showing a strong overlap for between "Generative AI Imagery" and "Boomer Posting" labelled "Hell."

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 1h

Now I can finally do what we've all been waiting to see

A Leica M4 with 50mm Summicron DR and eyes alongside a roll of Ilford Delta 400 Collector's Edition.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 2h

Boo-ray, the flare is back Boo: still don't know what causes it Hooray: I don't have to keep shooting color and my IXMOOs are exonerated

A man taking a picture of a blue Japanese crane truck with a weird patch of golden flare beside him.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 3h

"I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."

Rolled jeans on a leg whose foot is on a bicycle pedal.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 3h

Leica M4, 125mm f2.5 Hektor, Eastman Kodak Ultramax

A vintage style chrome mirror in a blue truck.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 15h

Anyway if I'm cursed now you are too

A boring and simple office space under construction.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 17h

I still feel like a goober wearing a camera around all the time, but, it's at least easier on the ego when the camera's so handsome

A tired man wearing a Leica rangefinder.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 17h

And now I have a proper c-stand for my boom and it can stop falling over and breaking my teacups

A chonky bike with a chrome metal stand strapped to it and the legs of the base sticking out of a generous saddle bag.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 05/10/2026

One of the things that rocks about the Visoflex III is that you don't have to remove the prism to mount or unmount it, which means you can just leave the reflex housing mounted to an optic and treat it as a single 'lens' for quick bayonet swapping.

A Visoflex III reflex unit with a large chrome lens mounted.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

Yeah you're good. It wasn't what I wanted but it's in no way among the worst in my book. Some fun bits, some good designs, and one of the most absurd frames ever in a Godzilla. Solid franchise installment.

King Ghidorah on an erupting volcano in the distance behind a cross. If you did this now someone accuse you of using AI, and probably be right.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

Olympus IS-3, Ilford Delta 400 Collector's edition

A black-and-white photo of two chairs with hard shadows against a gray block wall with a large with garage-type door.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

Pentax Auto 110, Reflx Lab Lucky 200

A color photo of an unstretched painted canvas behind an empty ornate oval gold picture frame.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

You're, like, really pretty OM-1, 12-100

A painted garage door with a chartreuse background and a pink humanoid cat recling in a suit under pigeons, flowers, shrimp, and the text "You're, like, really pretty" done by @bootlegsignco

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

Life in the bike lane OM-1, 12-100

A man in a red shirt on a blue bike riding through a parking lot overgrown with green plants growing through the asphalt.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

Friend you drive a Buick calm the fuck down

A boring modern Buick vehicle with an aggressive Punisher-like skull overlaid with an American flag and glowing red eyes on the front license plate space.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

I dunno why I picked up a dual-prism to play with but modesty aside I think I can rock it

A high contrast scene with a black cat in a cat tree by the bright light of glass doors sliced in half diagonally and partly duplicated.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

God I love an ultrawide OM-1, 7-14mm (at 8mm)

A black-and-white photo from inside the passenger cabin of a boat as a man pushes it off the dock as seen through a window.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

Leaving The Dame set up like this in the basement is probably fine. I probably won't regret this.

A creepy mannequin in the shadowy corner of a basement studio.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

No man I just called my dealer like a normal person

The "Tooth Fairy" monster from the Candle Cove season of Channel Zero.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

Pentax Auto 110, Reflx Lab Lucky 200

A lo-fi color photo of a centerpiece of wood and pheasant feathers.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

Dudes just on the internet have been dudes on the internet since at least 1954

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Perhaps I did not express myself quite clearly in my article in No. 5/53 of this magazine, but surely the principal reason for such an assertion is that one is tempted to assume that everyone must perforce understand everything that is said or written.
That this is not the case is shewn by about 5% of all letters received. These people want to know how to develop the fastest films in a Metol/Carbonate developer — a point I did not even mention, and which has no place in the current discussion because I do not, for reasons of grain and resolving power, use fast emulsions in my own work. Fast films are used only for the special purposes for which they are manufactured, and this is a subject I would rather not discuss here.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

Oh bless. LFI does have an iPadOS version. Glad I still have this old first-gen Pro, now I can catch up on another 80 years of reading.

An issue of Leica Fotographie International on an iPad.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

Neon Veil Olympus E-1, 14-35mm f/2

A color photo of a vintage baby blue bakelite rotary phone on a mirrored platter with about a dozen partially-used white candle pillars, a small mirror ball, and an ash tray with a pack of cigarettes in it.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

A sampler of some RNI 5 profiles: Gold 200 Ektar 100 Superia 400 Porta 400 Ultramax 400

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

Olympus IS-3, Ilford Delta 400 Collector's Edition

A black-and-white photo of a weathered "posted: no trespassing, keep out" sign.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

Whether or not this says "film" is somewhat beside the point because it is nonetheless a pleasant profile for a very difficult scene

A man in a cowboy hat on a spotted animal-hide couch in a small room filled with neon signs and a gold female mannequin torso.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 03/10/2026

OK, I must interrupt my normal posting for cute

A tabby kitten on her back with front paws reach out towards the camera.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 02/10/2026

I might like it better in this frame and in b&w

A black-and-white photo of a window lined on the inside with paper a black hole surrounded by the words "Can you keep a secret?"

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 02/10/2026

Pentax Auto 110 Super, Reflx Lab Lucky 200

A lo-fi photo of metal pipes on a building exterior.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 02/10/2026

Life in the bike lane Olympus IS-3, Ilford Delta 400 Collector's Edition

A black-and-white motion-blurred photo of a woman with child on a cargo bike going down a street.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 02/10/2026

Pentax Auto 110, Reflex Lab Lucky 200

A stenciled ferret image on a peeling weathered boarded-up window in a stone wall.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 02/10/2026

Life in the bike lane Pentax Auto 110 Super, Reflx Lab Lucky 200

A lo-fi photo of a person riding a bicycle through a cemetery.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 02/10/2026

For a work thing but also just nice to have a clean shot of my pride and joy, the J.H Dallmeyer 8.5 x 6.5" Rapid Rectilinear Patent, serial no. 48859. c.1888

An antique brass barrel lens with engravings in script font.

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 02/10/2026

Hey Verizon, you should look up the difference between "Web and Graphic Design Manager" and "IT" I feel it's important to your line of work to know

A sales pitch mailer from Verizon sent to me even though I make zero IT and service decisions.

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