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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Window of a Beacon Hill plumber's shop in Boston Leica IIIf/50 3.5 Elmar, TMY #filmphotography

On display in the window of a plumber's shop are antique pipes with gauges attached, old faucets, pipe wrenches, porcelain hot water handles

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pokey Beker, Jr., Jr. wondering why I am dilly-dallying in my duties as her chauffeur. #dogs

The head of a black and white dog with tan eyebrows and ripped ears looking out of a car window

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Texas mythos: Lean Real Americans™ in weathered Levis, straw cowboy hats and hand-tooled belts with silver rodeo buckles. Texas reality: Fat unshaven slobs in Walmart t-shirts and knockoff Adidas shorts slung low under beer guts and ass cracks with long, filthy toenails in $3 plastic sandals.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Moody Pokey is reminded of her days as a meth head street puppy on a walk in Brattleboro, Vermont. Leica IIIf/50 Elmar 3.5/TMY #dogs #photo

A black and white dog with her head hanging low walks on a wet sidewalk on a dank day next to a large graffito that reads PLEASE BE BRAVE

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dems should introduce legislation that creates a colossal fine and a permanent ban on future business with the federal government for any demolition or construction company that destroys American monuments without congressional approval.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Up in the Vermont woods today where I take Pokey Beker, Jr., Jr. on her mouse safari we just encountered a totally buttass naked guy hiking. He said, Sorry! and I said no problem and he asked me for directions to some ancient quarry.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ray of sunshine and #Bollywood star Rajeshwari Sachdev in her dressing room on location in Kathmandu. #filmphoto

A black and white photo of Hindi film star Rajeshwari Sachdev looking out with a smile from behind a glass window pane.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

U.K. film producer Jeremy Thomas just passed away. This shot of two of the women who played royal courtiers is from the set of Little Buddha, which he produced. On a set defined by the cruelty of the Italian half of the crew, he, like the rest of the UK crew, was always smooth, kind and calm. RIP.

A black and white photograph of two young women with their hair piled ornately on their heads and wearing jewels. One has turned to look at the camera with a smile. I shot this while working as an assistant director on the Bernardo Bertolucci film Little Buddha.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Millions of Americans have been welcomed in #Nepal, one of the poorest and most beautiful countries on Earth, with grace and hospitality for decades. And trump brags about sending $500,000 there from the US in a time of such tragic need?! We are the most disgraceful shithole country on the planet

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What a nightmare catastrophe in poor, beautiful, blighted Nepal.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly had an apartment in the same building as my dad 40 years ago. Everyone—janitors, doormen, everyone—loved her. She was a big star who cared about them, always stopped to chat and was legendarily the most generous and consistent tipper anyone had ever heard of. She made everyone’s day every day.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

SCOTUS’s reasoning today is that trump can order agencies to prepare to start shooting Americans in the street and it’s okay because since it’s only a plan states don’t need to prepare and therefore don’t even have standing to complain about it. What utter scumbags.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one knows exactly how wings work.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Another terrific thread from Edith Mirante, author (most recently) of the beautiful collection of essays, Where the Mithuns Are #books

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just finished this collection of essays by @edithmirante.bsky.social. It’s stunning. The title Mithuns are a friendly, white-socked cattle of south Asia, and Edith loves them. The intro essay is about meeting them, but, characteristically, Edith barely mentions her own drone-running for rebels… 1/4

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Pokey Beker Jr., Jr. running through the high grass in Vermont today. M6/50SM, TMY #dogs #photography

A black and white photograph of a black and white dog happily running at full tilt through high grass.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Qatari bribe jet should be confiscated by a future admin. But if it’s not, a second-tier way to shove a spike up trump’s ass is simply to invalidate one little piece of paper. It’s called an Airworthiness Certificate and can be withdrawn by the FAA administrator. Grounding by stroke of a pen.1/2

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

trump literally sold a pass for Taylor Farms to allow human shit in lettuce for a million bucks, but MAHA amirite

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Bonesaw murderer slips his favorite cheap date a fifty.

A front page photo of a murderous Saudi jackal assuming a position of dominance over a weak and stupid looking befuddled old criminal in heavy orange pancake makeup who appears to have shat his diaper judging from the way the Saudi master tries not to recoil in disgust as he palms what must be a fifty to the stinking old painted whore, trying desperately to keep his fingers from touching his rotting carcass.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If the next Dem president doesn’t outright confiscate the bribe jet, all that has to be done is for the next FAA administrator to cancel its airworthiness certificate, thereby turning it into a paperweight with the stroke of a pen. trump’s other plane could also stand some much closer inspection.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Talk about a close one. On a cosmic time scale I came THIS close to getting whacked by a meteor. Whew!

A color photograph of a huge meteor crater in Arizona seen from the cockpit of a single engine Cessna 185, the wing of which is at the top of the frame.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Horror movie here in the Vermont woods. I started the lawnmower and immediately got swarmed by a bunch of yellow and black stripey things. A few stung the bejeezus out of me. I think it’s a bald-faced hornet nest. All I can say is they started this war.

A photo of a round, greyish nest constructed by a vicious gang of aerial murderers under a lawn mower.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Every time someone is in the chair for a Senate confirmation hearing and they refuse to answer on the grounds that they won’t discuss a hypothetical the response should be, “Then why are you here? Your confirmation is hypothetical, too.”

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Don’t make me laugh. Anyone who thinks Cornyn, after a Senate career featuring a lengthy stint as a magat whore, will go against the grain on this, despite his trump-induced retirement, is suffering from delusions. This nom goes to the floor.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I was walking my dog in Eufala, Alabama one day about ten years ago and took this photo on an iPhone. I do not remember how I got this effect other than by just editing and then running the shot through more of the same edits after saves. Looks like it could have been on a Confederate dollar.

A photograph that looks like an engraving of a stately old home in Eufala, Alabama.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Another one of my thousands of negatives and slides that were doomed in flooding. This is a river in Ladakh, not sure where. #filmphotography

A color landscape photograph made soft and hazy by a mild infestation on the emulsion

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Indian movie poster in Kakarvita for “Dear” Tarzan.

A couple of cheap Indian movie posters plastered to a wall in India. On the right are three identical frames of a man pointing a gun at the camera. On the left is one titled “DEAR” TARZAN, witih the “dear in quotes, showing a tall blonde woman in hot pants being grabbed from behind by a short man wearing nothing but a loincloth.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

About 2/3 of my 40-year photo archive was destroyed in flooding a few years ago. Observation for #filmphotography folks: negatives in plastic sleeves were ruined; negs in glassine were all okay. Most of the wrecks were worse than this. Mold loves emulsion. Nikon F, 50H, Agfa slides #photography

A color photograph with blotches of green mold, of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If a Dem wins in ‘28 trump should be arrested at 12:01 on January 20. If a Dem wins and doesn’t, that’s all, folks. Corruption, theft of public money, treason, election rigging… not as if there aren’t grounds.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In the Vermont woods today with Pokey. IIIf/50 Elmar, TMX 400ASA in T-Max dev #filmphotography

A contrasty black and white photograph of a trail in the Vermont woods.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A big, white socked cow-looking bovine who wanders around during the day in war torn Burma and comes home to the humans in the evening for a salt nightcap. Posting this one because I love Edith’s photo but scroll up to the top of the thread.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Portrait of a Burmese anti-fascist student who, with thousands of others, escaped military government street massacres in 1988 to join Karen rebel forces to take up arms against the oppressor. Nikon F2, severely reticulated Tri-X #filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography #war #Burma

A black and white photograph of a young Burmese soldier sitting on the ground with the muzzle of a rifle leaning on his shoulder. His head is turned to look over his shoulder. In 1988, the Burmese government massacred more than 14,000 people who were protesting their totalitarian rule. Thousands of students like this one fled the cities to join rebel forces in the jungle to join the fight against the dictatorship. There they received training and heroically entered the tough battles ahead. They were too outgunned to succeed and yet they fought valiantly., true antifa in action.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Look, at least he didn’t sign it on the deck of the USS Missouri.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@ilfordphoto.com provided me the best #filmphotography customer service ever. I bought a product that had a flaw, sent images to them, heard back the next AM, had a replacement immediately. Legendary film products from a great company. Thank you, Ilford. Been a fan for 50 years; even more so now.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Many years ago, this Indian civet walked out of the jungle, limped to where I stood, lay down beside me, and let me stroke her as she closed her eyes and died. It was an awful moment of strange magic. Nikon F, 50-H, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #Nepal #wildlife

A close-up black and white photograph of the head of a civet. Her ears have long ago been chewed off from fights in the jungle.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Cellphone pic of a road in east Oklahoma, not far north of the Red River. #photo

A picture of a road with a bend in it under a cloudy sky

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I have no clue what these chicks were doing lined up in front of someone's house 30 years ago, but it was in the Hollywood hills, so it could have been anything. M650SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #streetphotography

A black and white photograph of seven women in black short shorts, white halter tops, posing on the curb in front of a house and looking towards it for some unknown reason.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today is the release of the superb new novel The Fire Agent by my old buddy David Baerwald. No exaggeration: this book is a big (600+pp), original, epic masterpiece. Gorgeous writing! So delighted that my photo of Dave is in today’s NYT. MX-EVS and HP5 #TheFireAgent #photography #filmphotography

A screenshot of an article on the web site of the New York Times about the release of the book The Fire Agent by David Baerwald. The review is titled His Grandfather Was a Spy. Obviously, He Wrote a Novel About It. there are two photographs, one of a Japanese military officer from around 1917 and another of the author, David Baerwald.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A TIbetan meditates at the foot of Boda stupa in Kathmandu, part of a lifetime practice that involves crossing the Himalaya in an unbroken series of prostrations from standing to kneeling to face down on the ground and back. M6/50SM, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #Nepal #Tibet #Buddhism

A black and white close-up portrait of a Tibetan man. His eyes are closed in meditation and his face is deeply lined by a lifetime spent in meditation. On his turban-like head covering is pinned a portrait of H.H. Dalai Lama.

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A Royal Enfield Bullet on the outskirts of Dram, TIbet M6/50M, Tri-X #filmphotography #photography #motorcycle

A black and white photograph of a classic British-style motorbike. It’s painted black. In the background are terraced rice paddies and houses perched in the hillsides

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Sherpa kid with cards up in the hills somewhere. M6/50SM, Tri-X #photography #filmphotography #Nepal

A close-up black and white photograph of a little boy wearing a few layers of sweaters and a thick, knitted hood, looking into the camera and holding a deck of cards

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you think Medicare is the answer, guess again. I’ve received a grim diagnosis. The diagnosis on the basis of one MRI and a visit to an ENT and I already have a stack of bills 2 inches high from three hospital systems. Surgery will require five surgical specialties. 1/2 #singlepayer

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Brian Beker @brianbeker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In an Akha house, women mill rice while girl fans flames, Shan State, Burma Nikon F2, lens unremembered, Tri-X #filmphotography #photo #streetphotography #Burma #myanmar

A black and white photograph taken underneath a house typical of an Akha family in Burma. In the background, three women in the traditional black dresses and silver-decorated headdresses of the Akha. In the foreground a little girl looks into the lens while she fans the flames under a bunch of firewood.

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