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Mike Ray

@dmichaelray.bsky.social
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Cooper's Hawk at my feeder! If you see this, post a hawk. #birds
Juvenile Cooper's Hawk at bird feeder Juvenile Cooper's Hawk at the bird feeder
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A peninsula silhouetted by the setting sun. Palm trees on the right
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
My first self developed roll of color film! Definitely some minor issues, but I think more related to me underexposing on my Minox 35. Kodak Gold 200 developed with the Film Photography Project new color negative development kit #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
A sweet brown and white dog hanging his head out the window of a carA view of several buildings with stairs in the foreground that lead to a passageway between them. A small child in a red shirt leans against the one on the leftA photo of an intersection taken from a car, the sun is shining on the left side with a lens flare. There are palm trees in the middle distance A weird little alley with a chain link gate. One side of the gate is covered by a dark tarp, the other by a yellow tarp. The eaves of a nearby roof are a faded red
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Not just you! The manual tells you to put it in A mode to check the battery. I also confirmed it doesn't work with mine when the shutter is locked.
My Canon A-1 with a 1980 Winter Olympics lens and a brown leather strapPart of a Canon A-1 manual that explains how to check the battery (turn it to A and then press the battery check button)
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
This super cute little cat was up for adoption in a PetSmart in San Diego. Minox 35 GL on HP5+, developed in D-76. Exposed at iso 320 #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #cats
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Here's some pictures from a test roll of HP5+ shot on a Minox 35 G, exposed at 320, D-76. Not sure how I feel about them, but the GT is more fun than the GL, mostly because the film advance is less cranky, and I do love a self timer. #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #minox35
A black and white picture of a path that flows from the bottom left to the center of the picture. There are fallen leaves on the lawn, and a window and porch light are in the right foreground. Above, leafy branchesA black and white night scene of San Diego harbor and downtown in the background with a couple streetlights and trees in middle. The bottom third of the picture is an out of focus view of the cement bench the camera is sitting on
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
There's a white morph of reddish egret that seems possible. The behavior matches at least.
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I found a couple cool mushrooms around the house #fungifriends
A flat orange and yellow mushroom growing in layers on a hardwood stump, next to a green and purple-ish succulent What looks like a morel mushroom that I found growing in some mulch under where our trash cans live!
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
I took these pictures through a fence with my Canon Multi-Tele in half frame mode. Happy Fence Friday! Half Frame Friday?? Ilford HP5+, D-76 #HFF #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
The first frame shows real birds (Black Crowned Night Herons), the second, a fake coyote not scaring the birds. Both are framed by square cutouts in the fence
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Here are some of the scanned pictures. Canon Multi-Tele shot in half frame mode on Ilford HP5+. Developed at home! #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
Graffiti on an underpass, on the left a little dude with a smile and a big nose, and on the right something that might say C Wold, or maybe C Word, hard to sayA horizontal half frame diptych in black and white. The top frame shows a bay with sailboats in the distance, clouds in the sky, and a bird. The lower frame includes a sailboats docked at dusk with a moon in the skyA black and white picture of some dude (me) in a black shirt with a bird riding a bicycle in front of a travel trailer. He has a beer in one hand, the other hand is in his pocket
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
I'm super excited-- just developed my own film for the first time! This is Ilford HP5+ 400 that I shot in a Canon Multi-Tele, a point and shoot that can do half frame and full frame. This is my first roll of half frame. Fun!! #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Got a weird bird at the feeder
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
There was a visit last night, but it ended much more peacefully. (And in EXTREME closeup.) Probably because I didn't fill the feeder back up this time!
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
And the cleanup! We'll see if they visit again tonight
An aqua blue and white bird feeder put back upright in it's original home by a window
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
The aftermath
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Revisiting the scene of the crime
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Opossum vandalism last night!
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Testing an estate sale find Canon A-1. I can't remember which lens these were shot with, but it was some combo of 50mm, 28mm, and 135mm on this test roll. Shot on Kodak Gold 200. #believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Silhouette! Not a new picture, but one of my favorites. Taken in August, 2019 near Biloxi, Mississippi with an Olympus Em10ii, f5.6 at 1/250 with the 5.6 100-300mm zoom. #birds
A great blue heron silhouetted against a sunset. Thunder clouds smear across the horizon and line of diffuse, yellow to orange sunlight sits above them.
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
I'm not entirely sure what scared this bird, but... I'm guessing my cat forgot about the existence of glass again. Definitely watch with the sound turned up-- it sounds like a cartoon sound effect
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
I shot a whole roll of 120 film on my sweet Ansco B2 Speedex... Which it turns out had a stuck shutter. So no pictures this time, but I am slowly learning how to work on old film cameras #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #filmphotography
An Ansco B2 Speedex in beautiful cosmetic shape. Its shutter though is completely stuckA partially disassembled Speedex. The focusing ring has been removedThe aperture ring of an Ansco SpeedexA more disassembled Speedex. The second element of the lens is still in place, and you can't see the shutter mechanism yet
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Opossum came by again, and got all up in the feeder's business. He seems to swing by every couple of days or so, usually after midnight. I appreciate that he's thinking of us for his late night snack needs
Extreme closeup of a opossum faceOpossum feet on a feeder, he's up in the camera's businessMore close up opossum
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
We've got a little half moon going on tonight
A marina full of sailboats with grey clouds behind it. It's past sunset, and a half moon is barely peeking through the clouds
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
I got a weird little point and shoot film camera for my birthday. I shot a roll of the cheapest color film I could find, and I had some decent shots. These are the best, or at least the ones I like the most.
A picture of a weird, orange sky with a smear of clouds in the background. In the foreground are some bushes, eerily litThe silhouette of a yucca tree, blooms mostly gone, on a light grey skyA skinny palm tree in front of a sky covered in scalloped cloudsA peninsula juts out into the ocean. Ripples of waves march in, and the clouds above are lit pink from the setting sun
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
And a cute little house finch
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
New Opossum sighting!
An opossum in profile, about to snack at a bird feeder
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Weird skies today in San Diego. Clouds and a humid haze
Trees and grass in the foreground, and large thunder clouds in a hazy blue skyA thunder head rises in the distance over a lightly rippled ocean, shrouded by pink and grey haze at its base. There are buildings in the distance on the far shoreA wider view of the last picture. Sunset on a smoky sky, a tiny thunderhead rising on the right side of the photo, the left framed by a eucalyptus tree. In the center, the blue sea is darker than the sky as the sun sets
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Taken seconds ago, curled up on a lap
A black cat from the shoulders up, passed OUT and laying on his side on a blanket
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
I need to refill the feeders. Mr./Ms opossum only stopped by for a second.
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Guess who's back?
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
The opossum came back!
An opossum eats at a bird feeder that I left on our porch. They're in profile, looking like they're contemplating the seeds they're eatingAn opossum eats at a bird feeder on my porch. They're in profile , and their mouth is open so that you can see their pointy teeth. Nom nom nom
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Radioactive bird
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Documented some bird on bird combat at the feeder today.
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Got a new bird feeder with a camera from the kids for my birthday. Stashed it on the porch before I figured out where to hang it and this little opossum was the first to discover it
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
Airport grab and go sushi. This is an act of faith I can only aspire to
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Mike Ray @dmichaelray.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Spent the weekend in the mountains near Julian, California
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