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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hello — the film adaptation of my book Underland will be showing at the BFI IMAX on 1 April. It should be spectacular on the 26m-high screen there. Tickets go on sale at 4pm today (Friday) here via bfi.org.uk. I’ll be there for a Q&A with the director, Rob Petit, who’s created an extraordinary film.

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nomoth @nomoth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I used three different vintage lenses on my super-grim day out today. 1. Polkinar 110mm f1.8 ...

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 09/02/2026

Dormant asparagus ferns in my neighbor's geodesic greenhouse. Experimenting with that Industar-61 53mm f/2.8 lens on my Sony. Loving the fall-off from sharp to out-of-focus on this lens. (San Pedro cactus in the background)

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 06/02/2026

Industar-61 53mm f/2.8 on my Sony. This is a LTM lens built in the FED factory in Kharkov in Ukraine. I was hoping it would have some personality and wasn't disappointed. Here's an example shooting towards the sun wide open and the wild bokeh. Example photo with 100% and 200% crops.

Industar-61 53mm f/2.8 lens mounted on a Sony A7III camera body. LTM to Leica-M to Sony adapters.

Example photograph made with the Industar-61 wide open at f/2.8. Shallow depth of field, not too much vignetting.

100% crop of previous photograph, showing flare from sun and bokeh.

200% crop of example photograph showing interesting mix of large and small bokeh circles from the Industar-61 53mm wide open at f/2.8

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 03/02/2026

Created a short promo video for an upcoming class for StrudelmediaLive, "Mastering the Lightroom Print Module" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ2J...

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Mastering the Lightroom Print Module with Kai McBride

YouTube video by StrudelmediaLive

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Michael Chovan-Dalton @realphotoshow.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Closing out the year with my former co-host and good friend, Kai McBride - @kaimcbride.com, to catch up on what he's been up to. In 2021, Kai and Corn Wagon Thunder finished creating a small off-grid cabin on a mesa east of downtown Santa Fe which he named ATARAXIA.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 24/12/2025

Real Photo Show Interview kaimcbride.com/posts/real-p... Sat down with Michael Chovan-Dalton for a one hour catch-up yesterday for his podcast @realphotoshow.bsky.social We cover off-grid living and how the move to New Mexico has changed my photo practice. Available on Spotify and YouTube

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Real Photo Show Interview

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 14/12/2025

Turning the Car Around kaimcbride.com/posts/turnin... I think every photographer can relate to this scenario. You’re driving along and spot something up ahead that looks intriguing. You split your attention between the road and the rapidly approaching scene. [click to read more]

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Turning the Car Around

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 11/12/2025

Canon Selphy Dye-Sub kaimcbride.com/posts/canon-... New Way to Make Prints As our new studio building neared completion, the first new purchase I made for the studio was this tiny Canon Selphy dye-sub printer. [click on post for the rest]

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Canon Selphy Dye-Sub

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 11/11/2025

Bill Wurtz’s History of Japan is the most entertaining history of anything I have ever seen. [kottke.org]

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A History of Japan

Bill Wurtz’s History of Japan is the most entertaining history of anything I have ever seen.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 12/11/2025

New classes just posted at StrudelmediaLive for Winter 2026, including two of mine. Repetition as Practice: A Year of Deep Observation strudelmedialive.com/classes/repe... Mastering the Lightroom Print Module strudelmedialive.com/classes/mast...

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 18/10/2025

If you come to Santa Fe, visit me at my new job at photo-eye books! Thursday to Saturday 11am-5pm.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 14/10/2025

The male tarantulas are on the move. Looking for love. This one came through the yard this afternoon. Did quite well walking upside down on this rock.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 30/08/2025

Twilight on the corner of Cielo and Cerrillos. Santa Fe, NM

Twilight sky with clouds. Illuminated sign frame missing the sign on the corner of a commercial parking lot. A beacon.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 28/07/2025

Campsite, near Conejos River in Colorado

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 21/07/2025

Monsoon Season in New Mexico means plenty of thunderstorms rolling through on the regular. This one is from last night.

Lightning in the sky above a small house with ponderosa pines and cactus on the outskirts of Santa Fe, NM

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 12/07/2025

Mullein with beaded dew. They call it a weed here in NM but I love the way they sprout up in our yard and shoot up their tall flower stalks.

Mullein plant with leaves darkened by morning dew

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 09/07/2025

Work shirt drying in the sun.

Shirt hanging to dry on a clothesline on the screened in porch. Backlit by the strong morning sun making the shirt as translucent as the screen.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 09/06/2025

Anthill + Underground cable marking flag taken yesterday. Love the confusing perspective and the NASA-moon-landing aesthetic.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 03/06/2025

Morning light for long shadows. Saw blade teeth and cactus needles.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 01/06/2025

Found Still Life: Bird hit the mirror at the outhouse this morning and landed like this in the sink.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 24/05/2025

The venerable vehicle roof as tripod stand. Good enough for Ansel, good enough for me.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 21/05/2025

Happy Humpstice (Hump + Solstice), when the sunrise aligns with the hump each year. This was at 5:57 this morning.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 17/05/2025

Photography folks, here is a little something to start your Saturday — Janelle Lynch on the art of noticing. Enjoy!

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How to make a good photograph

Janelle Lynch on the art of noticing

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 14/05/2025

Stretched out in the hammock on the porch with my copy of @craigmod.com “Things Become Other Things” that arrived in the post this morning. Ready to dive in. (learned about Craig Mod a while ago from @kottke.org —thanks!)

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 05/05/2025

Branching and Tendrils, organic and otherwise.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 23/04/2025

Headlamp at 5am with fresh wet snow.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 16/04/2025

Hashtag-Signs-of-Spring: Bringing the Underwood out on the porch for some barefoot typing.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 12/04/2025

Couldn't walk past this rock with lichen eyes and cactus mouth without taking a quick photograph.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 09/04/2025

Dreamed up a project to try out my new 4-jaw chuck--a toggle switch plate for the 24VDC LED light on the porch. Great to be able to machine square stock on the lathe! 50mm x 12mm 6061 aluminum bar. I recently learned the CAD software onshape and modeled it there first.

New aluminum toggle switch plate installed.

CAD drawing of the switch plate made in onshape.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 07/04/2025

Finished turning down the cast iron backing plate. Had to order transfer-punch screws and counterbore for M8 bolts to get the holes drilled. All came together yesterday. Now have a 4-jaw chuck!

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 07/04/2025

The Hump: 6/IV/2025 [sunrise beyond the heavy clouds]

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 04/04/2025

What is it about a slightly defunct handmade sign that is impossible to resist (photographing)? Walker Evans knew.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 03/04/2025

Saddened to hear of the passing of Paul McDonough—a constant on the NY photo scene for decades and longtime faculty at Pratt—teaching there for over 40yrs.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 03/04/2025

The Hump: 2/IV/2025 [from the porch with laundry]

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 03/04/2025

I just changed my bsky account over to my domain based on these instructions: bsky.social/about/blog/4... Not sure if that means that the lists that I'm on will now be broken (alas!). If anyone has kaimcbride.bsky.social bookmarked (ha! Doubtful), please change to bsky.app/profile/kaim...

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Bluesky

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 02/04/2025

Lot of great shepherds in Roma's book Sicilian Passage, but this is one that I had not seen before.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hello US readers––we've made a special limited edition hardback of my new book Is A River Alive? It’s only available to pre-order from 60 US indie bookstores & comes with a 48-page @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social "river" notebook. Artwork by the great Stanley Donwood! Orderable here: isariveralive.com

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 27/03/2025

That feeling on the first truly warm days of Spring when you are driving along and roll down the window and spontaneously stick your arm out into the warm wind.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 21/03/2025

Walking around town with a small mirror making example photographs for my next Shake Up class. Like this one quite a lot.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 21/03/2025

Indeed (Kurt Vonnegut)

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 20/03/2025

Ha, Improved Relative Time lets you ditch BC and AD for designations like ABW (After Barbed Wire), BHCS (Before High Carbon Steel), AIP (After iPhone), and ASCR (After Supersonic Combusting Ramjet). No ATSDB (After Trial-Size Dove Bar) tho… (via @waxy.org) [relative-time.jthaw.club]

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Improved Relative Time

BC and AD? What even is those? Tell me something like its relation to the iPhone or internet???

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 20/03/2025

Finding Bluesky good for curing that urge to see if a certain friend 'liked/saw' a recent post. Most people I know are not on this platform. Majority of my posts are getting fewer than 10 likes. More like a practice of sending messages out into the void. Healthier.

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Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com · 20/03/2025

My 1972 Saab Sonnet III basking in the NM sun. Needs a little work (bleed the brakes, adjust the carbs). Hope to get it out on the road this summer.

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