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Claire Ultraviolet

@ultraviolet.photo
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Transsexual panoramic film photographer from Seattle. Interested in infrastructure and the mechanical. → ultraviolet.photo

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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 20/09/2026
See a PCC, post a PCC Hasselblad XPan, Kodak Portra #filmphotography #photography
Several PCC streetcars waiting for service in the early morning light at MUNI's Cameron Beach Yard
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 18/09/2026
To celebrate new trainsets entering revenue service soon, here's a photo I took back in July of this same new Airo set crossing Portland's steel bridge during one of the early test runs. Really excited for the future of @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov! #filmphotography #hasselbladxpan
The head unit of a shiny new green and brown Amtrak Cascades Airo trainset number 7001 crossing a heavy steel double-deck lift-bridge in Portland Oregon, with a disused mill along the Williamette river in the background.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 15/09/2026
I’ve been taking more portraits lately, even in my usual XPan aspect ratio. It’s a fun experiment to work on composing these, but having a beautiful subject helps. Anyway, if you’re trans, my mutual on here, and in Seattle, SF, or NY, I’d love to take your picture sometime. DM me! #filmphotography
mb, in a red dress, sniffing roses in Portland Oregonmb, holding up her Nikon F6 in front of the same rosebush
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 11/09/2026
I’ve been deeply moved by Kusama’s infinity rooms several times. Thanks to the Glass team for sneaking one of my photos in to this morning’s spotlight on photos of her work.
Film panorama of an endless room, spheres of light punctuating the scene. At the center, and the sides, reverberating out in all directions are me and mb, both holding up cameras. About two thirds of the way through the frame is a bright white light and a flurry of motion blur where the LED light spheres changed color to red, which is seen sneaking in from the right side of the frame.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 04/09/2026
Two moods of @mbbischoff.com
mb (hot, trans) in profile view, sipping a martini very elegantly. she's lit somewhat ominously from a reflection below, highlighting her rings, Doll Invasion bracelet, and her red watch. Behind her are ferries at a pier and pride flags.mb smiling in evening golden backlit sunshine, on the back of a boat, speeding away with a sharp curling wake
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 28/08/2026
I love the aisles of the No 5 Crossbar. Here’s @1xb.co from last October.
A girl with green hair and black jeans up a ladder in a telephone central office, lit from above, testing some unseen equipment, surrounded by grey steel.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 27/08/2026
Dreaming of Earth‘s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love #filmphotography
An endless expanse of red, yellow, green, and blue polka dots.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 26/08/2026
Here’s the other one I took. The light was just perfect this day.
A pigeon radiating golden rays, dropping a rose to rats waiting below (unseen)
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 23/08/2026
okay here’s my very silly slightly secret joke tshirt cottonbureau.com/p/9J38KC/
A tshirt with a rainbow and a picture of a telephone dial. Text on the shirt reads “Proudly celebrating 100 years of EAST Central Office dial telephone service. Capitol Hill, Seattle. Dialing 324 in (206) since 1927.”

This subtly references that EAST was assigned office code 324. EA-4 according to the letters on the dial which correspond to the numbers. There is an affectionate subtle reference to a three letter word which can be spelled on a telephone dial with 324.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 23/08/2026
Toronto corridors for 2am.
A long hallway with a turn toward the end. Vertically-lain steel-blue glossy tiles and cold grey floors reflect harsh overhead lighting.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 23/08/2026
oh actually yeah, you’re so right. they’re in the creepy stairwell corners, not on the platforms like this dull one at 49th street bowling green has a good one too (with great brick coloring) but i fucked it up like 8 different times and i’m done trying
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 23/08/2026
i feel like they’re pretty uncommon in new york? but it’s a challenging environment to work in for sure, so i’d believe i missed them i shot a few in berlin a few years back and had that “a-ha!” moment i crave so much, now i’m addicted. attached is a hemisphere from toronto
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 23/08/2026
🔴❔
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 23/08/2026
Mirrored self portrait in Powell’s Books.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 22/08/2026
don’t think of her
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 22/08/2026
Hot Rat Summer #filmphotography
A close-up of a tile-mosaic in Seattle's Cal Anderson Park reflecting pool on Capitol Hill. A rat and crow highlighted as saints, and the rat sheds a tear.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 21/08/2026
this is what it’s like inside me btw
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 21/08/2026
Sometimes, if you ask the universe really nicely, you can go back in time 2 years, and kiss a girl where you really wanted to after you've fallen in love. Even though you know it's safe now, you'll still feel just as nervous, but you'll feel something heal deep inside you.
mb (hot, trans, blonde) sitting in a tree
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 20/08/2026
Escalator to the SeaBus #filmphotography
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 16/08/2026
so does this guy i guess but my eyes fuckin hurt and my sinuses are fucked
Pablo, a small black cat with evil intentions, sitting on a pile of white bedsheets which I am underneath.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 13/08/2026
hey
ClaireViolet with her motorcycle. Her brown eyes are shining a bit in the light.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 12/08/2026
i saw this today and kicked myself for not having a camera on me
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 12/08/2026
the corner of John & 17th has also historically offered something quite good (file photo, 2022)
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 12/08/2026
Secretly one of my favorite buildings in Seattle.
A beautiful 6-story building with outdoor fireescape painted a pale pink and covered in ivy. A red arch to a parking lot where a light grey on dark grey mural warns “NO TRESSPASSING” in all-caps sans-serif trying to overshadow the cars.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 12/08/2026
espeso
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 11/08/2026
Leave Chambers St. alone, she's beautiful. Horizon 202 swing-lens and 35mm Kodak Portra film. #filmphotography #believeinfilm #teamhorizon glass.photo/108c/3HaBdIR...
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 10/08/2026
Seattle, I love you.
A view of Mt. Rainier faintly in the background, with the Cal Anderson park reflecting pond equipment house visible, showing the Hot Rat Summer triptych.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 09/08/2026
The banner on my profile is an alternate of this shot, from a walk around the lower east side I woke up at sunrise for. #filmphotography #believeinfilm
A flower shop in bright early morning sun, the glass panes locking in the plans scrawled with colorful graffiti. A woman in a sunhat and pink dress is in motion in front of the shop. Various street infrastructure visible at the corners.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 08/08/2026
Myrtle Avenue–Broadway Kodak Ektar #filmphotography #believeinfilm #hasselbladxpan glass.photo/108c/35m7I2b...
A ticketbooth bathed in afternoon light from a small window of stained glass. Digital display board show the times before the next J and M trains, as well as a map of the NYC Subway.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 04/08/2026
iOS screenshot. A yellow wallpaper, with white text for Fantastical events, NYC time, and a weather line from Mercury weather. Notifications for an iMsssage from Victoria, and a Things app reminder for a monthly newsletter. Quick actions for the camera, and a lightmeter app (Lightmate).
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 04/08/2026
TOO LATE!!!
ClaireViolet has entered the United States of America and passed Lisbeth.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 04/08/2026
(evil grin)
A screenshot of Apple’s Find My, showing ClaireViolet (blue apple maps dot) closing in on Blaine, WA, and the US Border, where Liz is currently stopped.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 03/08/2026
here’s my thoughts on Glen Park, while we’re on the subject
A mitsubishi airconditioner haphazardly installed stop a BART information booth, inside a large net. A marble atrium with many BART fare gates. A line of bikes next to a window with a view of the highway.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 03/08/2026
she’s a mess, but she is beautiful
A panoramic film photo of a Link light rail train arriving in Westlake station. Murals line the wall behind. Passengers waiting for an approaching train, with a collage tile mural behind them, featuring most visibly Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe. A dimly lit space for an art installation “Coming soon…” next to several ORCA card ticket machines. The empty mezzanine of Westlake station.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 03/08/2026
i just think she’s special, okay‽
a ship docked in front of the north vancouver sulfur pile during golden hour
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 02/08/2026
this one had me genuinely considering giving up the game
a night time photo of the north vancouver grain terminal from the 1980s
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 02/08/2026
he made a sulfur pile branded gin. iconic
a gift shop item, greg girard limited edition gin, where the label is a photo of the north vancouver sulfur pile
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 31/07/2026
behold, a drum which never stops turning, day or night, which makes the air shimmer with heat. the tumbler balls inside crushing cement sound like rain as they hit the ducting. every industrial facility is the same. they are all different.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 31/07/2026
thinking about infrastructure
Plaque on a bit of concrete with exposed rebar. Inscription:

Boeing. North Cedar River Bridge. Renton, Washington. Original bridge built in 1944; New bridge built in 2014. Between 1944 and 2014, approximately 14,700 airplanes built by Boeing employees crossed the Cedar River by bridge.

A diagram of an aircraft crossing a small bridge, wings overhanging the edges above the river.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 31/07/2026
HELL YEAH.
ClaireViolet in a lot of protective equipment at the top of a 200’ cement kiln pre-heater tower. Beige ironwork, ducting, pipes, and superstructure. A sweeping view of Seattle’s Harbor Island.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 14/07/2026
nice yellow wall, “wendy” “almonds”
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 08/07/2026
in my lane
a photo of a restaurant with several objects lined up on blue tile. a collection of sake bottles, a waving porcelain cat advertising nishiki rice, and a polka-dotted king frog with a progress pride flag
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 07/07/2026
update: i found it hiding in my closet, nature is healing
claireviolet in profile in the sun holding it’s collar which says “SUB PUP” in the subpop logoa similar photo where claire is smiling in front of some graffiti which says “trans fags own seattle”
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 06/07/2026
screenshot of the rotting remains of twitter.com.

tweet from @dril from December of 2018:

“linking my Folders to other Folders or whatever the fuck it is people do on the computer”
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 04/07/2026
post your warning label
NO PARKING between here and the water. The Travelift will crush you, tiny human.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 27/06/2026
How’s this alternate angle work for you?
A vertical panorama of a cruise ship passing under the Golden Gate as the sea sprays into frame. The entire height of the bridge’s towers are visible, and the tops of the stay cables cast shadows through the fog. A bird’s wing clips into the right side of the frame.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 27/06/2026
Los Angeles.
A photo of railroad infrastructure and an oil refinery.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 27/06/2026
"Nowhere in particular," you say? #filmphotography
A photo of the headsign on MUNI's boat tram that reads "Nowhere in Particular". The tram is cropped out mostly, but the Ferry Building on Embarcadero is visible.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 27/06/2026
Love to manufacture consent. #filmphotography
A "domination" style advertisement, a full wrap of a MUNI trolleybus on a beautifully lit streetcorner of Powell in front of an ornate building. The advertisement is sans-serif black text on a white bus which reads "LOCK IN"An SF MUNI bendy-bus stuck in traffic covered in a full ad wrap which reads "AGENTS" at least 9 times.
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 27/06/2026
I think this one's real cute. RTD Denver. #filmphotography
A train approaching the station, as viewed from the nubbed yellow strip at the platform edge.
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