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Retired standards expert living in upstate NY. Photographer. Writer. Gardener. Syndicalist. Animist. Doomer. Occasional mystic. Member of The Things Network Ithaca […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ flx.masto.host/@bosak, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 12h
It's interesting to see language move on from the OED (the first parts of which were published well before the turn of the 20th century), and sometimes you see a word declared dead that is still with us. The NYT word of the day is "debonair," which it's used in 24 articles over the past year, so […]
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Terry Moore @terrillmoore.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#photography #filmphotography #museum
A collection of research dyes from Kodak. George Eastman Museum, Rochester NY, Aug 16, 2026.

Canon F-1 | FL 35mm f/2.5 | 400TX | 1/60 at f/2.8 | ID-11 1+1 10:22 at 20.4 C | m43 scan, grain2pixel | traditional treatment in LR/PS.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717327, cont.: Riverside County (1972-73) The couple come back to smoke a hive a little later in order to extract some honeycomb. One: A resident of the property.
Typical desert fauna.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717327, cont.: Riverside County (1972-73) Xavier and her guy are into keeping some bees. One: Opening a hive.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717327, cont.: Riverside County (1972-73) We are visiting our friend Xavier (nee Diane) and her guy, whose name might have been Rob. They are living on a place out in the desert. One.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717327: Riverside (1972-73) One: Melanie, operating an IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer in the Highlander production room. I am managing editor at this point, and she is typesetting the paper.
There are some shots of the production room coming up, so I'll save further commentary for then.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717326: Riverside (1971-73) I acquired an old Zeiss 6x9 folder, had it for a while but never used it much. This was a roll of test shots using me as the subject. The setting was the living room at Sixth and […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography (free article) www.wsj.com/business/retail/these-1…
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717325, cont.: Riverside (1971-73) One: Melanie and her Saab 850, our car after my '48 Chevy threw a rod. "850" referred to the size of the car's engine. In cc's. But plenty of power: it was a two-stroke. You […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
This car featured prominently in a saga I talked about here back in the "lost rolls" series. I might revisit it when we get to that point in the timeline.
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Gav Gordon🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @gavgordontogo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
youtu.be/K_DOnKJ232M?...
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R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978)
YouTube video by Lomax Film Collection
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717325: UC Riverside (1971-73) I am testing something (a camera, a lens, a film, a developer) my usual way, by taking pictures very quickly of whoever happens to be in the Commons offices or just outside. One: In an office.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography Song swap, continued. At Stewart Park, a few feet from the edge of Cayuga Lake. One. He is playing and singing "See That My Grave is Kept Clean" (Blind Lemon Jefferson), a personal favorite of mine. I sang "Thousands or More" […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
#1. All: Nikon SP, 5cm f/2 and 10.5cm f/2.5 Nikkor lenses, 1/125 sec. at f/5.6, Tri-X in MTTB 5+5.#2.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm worried about Bill Griffith. No Zippy for several days now.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography As reported earlier, I got my Nikon SP back (now that I can focus it, yay). Of the four lenses originally traded in, I got back the 5cm f/2 and the 10.5cm f/2.5, which ain't bad for starters; the 5cm is a great old lens, and the […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
#1. All: Nikon SP, 5cm f/2 and 10.5cm f/2.5 Nikkor lenses, 1/125 sec. at f/5.6, Tri-X in MTTB 5+5.#2.#3.#4.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography One: The morning my daughter and granddaughter left, my wife gave the kid a quick tour of her garden and a few of its 150+ varieties of medicinal herbs.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Sometimes obvious scams really puzzle me -- like, what's the point? Today's offering: from a "user" with zero followers, following, or posts, a private mention reading in its entirety, "hey! — if you haven't tried the official Android app lately, 2.13.3 is solid". Did the bot just leave out the […]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography We were visited for a week in August by my daughter and granddaughter. One day, we dropped off the granddaughter at summer day camp and drove up to Syracuse to see The Odyssey in IMAX (not the 70mm version; we didn't have enough […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography Taking time out from the historical series to catch up on four heretofore undeveloped rolls of 135 from August and the first part of September. Tech data in alt text as usual. One: Bekki buying crystals and other supplies from […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
All in this set: Nikon F, Tri-X in BTTB 5+5. This shot: 35mm Nikkor f/2, 1/30 sec. at f/2.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717324: Riverside (1971-73) Scenes around the house at Sixth and Comer. One: A ceiling.
The book is Remington's Practice of Pharmacy (1947 edition). I still have it. You never know when you'll need to compound your own pharmaceuticals.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717323: Riverside (1971-73) Earlier, I showed a picture of the Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree. For a Highlander article, I went back and took a whole roll of 120. For people new to photography, the […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
A couple of years earlier, I had run a gas station at Arlington and Magnolia, just a few yards away from this.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
1/ "It’s difficult to describe how it feels to me to get what I’m looking for in a picture. It’s good, of course, a very peaceful state. But the inspiration, the idea is in control and my job is to do as it tells me and not get in the way, so I don’t feel much of a sense of personal achievement […]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717322: UCR Riverside (1971-73) This set will be of interest mainly to UCR historians. The photos were taken to document a special event: the mountains in back of the campus were visible.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717321: UC Riverside (1971-73) One: A piece of the stage in the University Theater.
Apparently I'm here to take a photo of the dancer in the next image.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUComm… Canadian friends: is there any reason that you would *not* want to go with this? (Not trying to stir the pot here, just curious.)
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717321: Riverside (1971-73) More 6x6 work. One: On the way to school.
Possibly a UCR student.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717320: Riverside (1971-73) My "big camera" was a Mamiya C33 (I still have one) on a tripod. I began to be interested in object photography.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717319: Riverside (1970-71) Random 6x6 stuff. One: Bill, playing in the living room.
We had just one comfortable chair in the living room.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
I've about had it with people saying that concern about rogue AI agents is just hype. (Along with the "stochastic parrots" crowd. I've lived with parrots, and they don't do this shit.) After the past week's revelations about what's been going on FOR MONTHS, anyone who feels like downplaying the […]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717318: Riverside (1970) This set was hard for me to process. Pam Tilley (shown here) and Mio Amrine were residents of the unit above us and our closest friends. They went for a summer trip to France and were […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Uh, guys? This is serious. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cyberattack-by-…
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Very glad to have extricated myself from the hole I dug with the Rollei 2.8C purchase last year. Part of the trade-in was my Nikon SP, which I couldn't really focus any more. The Rollei didn't work out for me, and I couldn't get enough from selling it to get a decent 35mm replacement. It finally […]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717317, cont.: Riverside (1972) Around the house. One: Bathroom ventilation.
Fortunately, it almost never rained.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717317: UC Riverside (1972) One: Campus scenes.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717316, cont.: Riverside (1970-72) One: Some women around the house.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717316: Riverside (1970-72) One: Lynn, making a collage.
We were awash in print media from which to make these things.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Uh-oh, somebody noticed. sharedserviceslink.com/news/ubl-get…
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UBL Gets Major Update After 13 Years
OASIS has officially published UBL 2.5, bringing a significant update to one of the standards sitting underneath global e-invoicing.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717315: Riverside (1970-72) Around the house at Sixth and Comer. One: In our bedroom. My bedside table in #1 is a cable spool.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717314, cont.: Riverside (1970-72) One: At the swap meet.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717314: Riverside (1970-72) One: Our friend Linda.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
#filmphotography The second of two rolls shot at the Trumansburg Fair Draft Horse Contest last Saturday. Notes in alt text. One: This is the woman and horse shown in the last frame of yesterday's post.
This frame and the next two are from the roll of Tri-X; yesterday's were from the roll of Bergger Pancro 400 developed at the same time in the same tank (BTTB 5+5). All: Mamiya C220, Mamiya/Sekor 135mm f/4.5, f/16 at 1/500 sec.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
“Arion Press is a national treasure, preserving a tradition of craftsmanship that reminds us of the lasting value of making something with care,” said billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, founder of the investment and social-impact firm Emerson Collective and was mm. (WSJ) Now that's what I call an […]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
#filmphotography Last Saturday I went to the Trumansburg fairgrounds to shoot some film of the Draft Horse Contest. First attempt since the cataract surgery. I only had enough energy for a couple of rolls of 120, and not enough to move around much, but I […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
All of the photos on both rolls were taken with a Mamiya C220 outfitted with side grip, pentaprism, and 135mm f/4.5 Mamiya/Sekor lens. All were taken at f/16 for 1/500 sec., and both this roll (Bergger Pancro) and the next one (Tri-X) were developed together in Barry Thornton's Two-Bath formula, 5+5 minutes at 73F.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717313, cont.: Riverside (1970) One: A collision between a VW beetle and some kind of Chevrolet convertible, I think maybe a Camaro.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
#googlescams First time I've seen this. The wife goes to book a room at a vacation motel, google links to a legit-looking site for that motel with an 877 number. She calls and is told that it's sold out but they can find something else in the area. I tell her to hang up and I book her a room […]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717313: Riverside (1970) One: For some reason that I can't now imagine, Melanie and I are visiting the owner (I guess) of a Chevy Fleetmaster very similar to my 1948 model (the one in back). I think that his […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
The big change in Chevies came came with the arrival of "planned obsolescence" in 1949: ball joints that wore out rather than kingpins that didn't, shock absorbers that needed periodic replacement rather than ones that you just topped off with shock absorber fluid, etc. Tech note: the film used for this roll was Plus-X.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717312, cont.: Riverside (1970) Roll-end miscellanea. One: A vapor trail.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717312, cont.: Riverside (1970) The roll continues with these photos of our friend Diane, before she cut her hair and changed her name to Xavier. One: On the porch at Sixth and Comer.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717312, cont.: Riverside (1970) Three characters. One: A clerk in a record store. It's hard to describe the importance that LPs had for us. They were expensive ($3-4 apiece, which would be $30-40 now), and […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]
We are buying copies of Tea for the Tillerman (Cat Stevens) and Let it Be (Beatles), which puts this pretty firmly in 1970.
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
RE: flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/11718… "Compared with the babies who didn't experience sugar rationing, the babies who were sugar-rationed for their first 1,000 days were 69 percent less likely to develop liver cancer in their adult lives. They also saw reduced incidence […]
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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717312: Riverside County (1970) We're out in the desert someplace. I have no idea what we're doing here. One: Someone's house.
Typical desert vibe.
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