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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams

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Visit www.qwerkyphotography.com. Thinker. Writer. Cultural Arts Reporter/Reviewer. Creative Lifer. Mostly Analogue Photographer -- 35mm, Medium Format, Large Format. Leica. Rolleiflex. Nikon. Pentax. Toyo. Graflex. #believeinfilm

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Life On Snob Hill: The Underwood That Followed Me Home A 1940s Champion, original case: $12. It joins my analog Leicas, Nikons, Rolleiflexes and manual-wind watches. I’ve loved mechanical things since my teens—not because they’re old or easier. They ask something of you. #Typewriters #AnalogLife
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Theatre Review: Through April 12, The Rep’s “Ring of Fire” Runs on Songs Not Story open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Theatre Review: Through April 12, The Rep’s “Ring of Fire” Runs on Songs Not Story
Johnny Cash still draws a room, and this production knows it.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Life On Snob Hill: How We Complicate the Evergreen — qwerky studio
Family, Tradition, and the Light We Choose
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Life on Snob Hill: An Ordinary December Mystery — qwerky studio
In the sunroom on Snob Hill, the Christmas cacti have taken up their annual positions, side by side, equal light, equal water, equal care. And, as always, they have decided to behave entirely differen...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Life On Snob Hill: Poetry & the Age of Snowmageddon — qwerky studio
In recent years, we’ve been reading more poetry than we ever did before. Koans and sestinas. Haiku and free verse, questioning whether verse, or even words, are ever really free. Whatever. We are demo...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Through December 7: New Jewish Theatre turns "Baskerville” into a BritBox-Turned-to-11 Delight open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through December 7: New Jewish Theatre turns "Baskerville” into a BritBox-Turned-to-11 Delight
A fun, fleet, joyful night out
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Dance St. Louis' ABT STUDIO COMPANY
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Opera Review: Winter Opera St. Louis Conjured a Light, Lyric Spell with “The Sorcerer” open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Opera Review: Winter Opera St. Louis Conjured a Light, Lyric Spell with “The Sorcerer”
Stage director John Stephens guided the action with brisk pacing and a sure comic hand
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Pulitzer Brings “Color Into Form Into Sound” to Life open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Pulitzer Brings “Color Into Form Into Sound” to Life
Breath became structure and attention felt like devotion.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The deeper dive on “The Brothers Size” at The Rep is now up on St. Louis Art Scene. This is work that lives through breath and proximity — a production that stays in the body. Read the review there. bit.ly/4o7nqCl Subscribe to STL Stage Snaps on YouTube for fast takes across St. Louis theater.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Through October 26: “The Woman in Black” Lets Story and Sound Carry the Fear at The Rep open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through October 26: “The Woman in Black” Lets Story and Sound Carry the Fear at The Rep
The long-running thriller affirms the theater as a ritual of fear and fascination
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa... #operatheatrestl #patriciaracette #thesheldon
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Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon
Opera Theatre’s Artistic Director returns to her roots in jazz and cabaret.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The Woman in Black, now at The Rep in St. Louis, turns silence and fog into a shared haunting. A gothic ritual of storytelling that lingers after the lights rise. 🎭 #STLStageSnaps #STLRep #StLouisTheatre #STLArts #TheWomanInBlackSTL www.youtube.com/shorts/dlwNd...
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Repertory Theatre of St. Louis WOMAN IN BACK
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice
Sometimes the most expansive theater happens in the smallest of rooms
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths
This is Stray Dog at its boldest
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Stages St. Louis' BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Morning Glories, False Fall—and the Nostalgics Among Us — qwerky studio
Early morning on Snob Hill, our small hillside enclave in St. Louis, and late summer is showing its hand. The light slants lower, shadows stretch longer, and the air carries that faint metallic tang t...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
stlouisarts.substack.com/p/through-au... #STLStageSnaps #TheMuny #Muny2025 #StLouisTheatre #StLouisTheater #STLArts #LiveTheatreSTL #LiveTheaterSTL #StLouisEvents #BroadwayInStLouis #STLStageReviews #StLouisCulturalScene #StLouisArtScene #STLTheatreInfluencer #STLTheaterInfluencer #jerseyboys
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Through August 24: “Jersey Boys” Closes The Muny’s 107th Season With Swagger and Falsetto
Not so much a jukebox as a time machine stocked with memory, falsetto and swagger.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Tesseract Theatre’s "Steel Magnolias" Blesses Hearts and Hugs Necks - Pop Life STL
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
💥🎭 TRUE FRIEND CHALLENGE 🎭💥 Think you’re a real friend? Prove it. ➡️ Go to my YouTube channel. ➡️ Click subscribe. ➡️ Watch a review or two. My A Streetcar Named Desire review already has 400+ views, while Evita is rocking 1,100+! 🎥 STL Stage Snaps on YouTube → www.youtube.com/@STLStageSna...
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Fast takes on STL theater, music & more — your quick-hit guide to the best of St. Louis performing arts.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages
It rarely animates the quicksilver intelligence at its core
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
www.qwerkyphotography.com/life-on-snob... #StLouisLife #NeighborhoodTales #CulturalCommentary #AIandCulture #WittyWriting #SmartSatire #StorytellingMatters #DigitalCulture #BlueskyWriters #BookProposalReady #LitAgentSearch #PublishingCommunity #EditorAlert #ManuscriptReady #WritersOfBluesky
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AI’s the Kind of Asshole Who Brings Store-Bought Dip to a Snob Hill Soirée — qwerky studio
We recently indulged in a bit of digital slumming and asked one of those upstart AI platforms—Perplexity, bless its eager little circuits—to dream up five blog topics in the refined, vine-covered spir...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
www.qwerkyphotography.com/life-on-snob-hill-blog/2025/7/24/jed-clampett-edna-lewis-and-remembrance-of-tomatoes-past
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Jed Clampett, Edna Lewis and Remembrance of Tomatoes Past — qwerky studio
Natalia Ginzburg was an Italian writer known for her incisive essays and novels that often explored family life, memory and the quiet struggles of everyday existence. In one of her essays about Englis...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Shit! I was doing some organizing in my camera closet and the merest accidental tap on the back of my Kodak 2D shattered the ground glass. I know it can be repaired, but this happened literally 10 minutes I just paid for the $300 CLA on the Nikon S2 rangefinder. Why, camera gods, why?
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#lifestyle #stlouiswriter #journalism #magazinejournalism #qwerkystudio #lifeonsnobhill #lifeonsnobhillblog www.qwerkyphotography.com/life-on-snob-hill-blog/2025/7/11/well-bless-your-byline
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Well, Bless Your Byline — qwerky studio
Life On Snob Hill’s meditation on writing, hubris, and why nobody—no matter how clever—owns the alphabet We were leafing through one of our favorite Southern magazines the other day—the kind that swa...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Adams On Opera! The Review Is Up! www.youtube.com/shorts/kTRm8...
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Union Avenue Opera's MY FAIR LADY #stlstagesnaps #unionavenueopera
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
www.qwerkyphotography.com/life-on-snob-hill-blog/2025/6/30/life-on-snob-hill-ballad-of-the-sunflower-the-swarm-and-princess-pumpkin #VolunteerPlants #SurpriseGarden #SlowLiving #FoundBeauty #PoeticLiving #SerendipityInNature #LifeOnSnobHill #SnobHillGarden #SnobHillBees #PrincessPumpkin
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Life On Snob Hill: Ballad of the Sunflower, the Swarm and Princess Pumpkin — qwerky studio
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee. / And revery. / The revery alone will do, / If bees are few.” — Emily Dickinson We’re not ones to curate perfection on Snob ...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High
The summer season opener delivers athleticism and exuberance, but it’s in the hip-hop cadence and communal energy of its second school where the show most resonates.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
When You Don't Wind Film Far Enough With a Vintage Diana Camera You Get This. #toycamera #foma400 #diana #toycamera #lofiphotography #shotonfilm #emulsive #filmshooter #shootmorefilme #analogue #analog #plasticlens #plasticcamera #krappykamera
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DangRabbit Photography @dangrabbit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Sometimes life feels like the perfect game, sometimes it feels more like a 7-10 split… #bowling #roadside #travel #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photography #eastcoastkin
Huge bowling pin outside a bowling alley along a roadside. Black and white Americana photograph copyright Amy Medina, DangRabbit Photography.
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DangRabbit Photography @dangrabbit.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
What do you see in the sea? Everything that was, and everything that will be. #sea #beach #driftwood #blackandwhite #moody #photography #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography
A large old tree turning to driftwood on a quiet beach under a dark brooding sky. Black and white photograph copyright Amy Medina, DangRabbit Photography.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Adams On Theater! Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz
This madcap musical two-hander unleashes a killer performances with quick-change chaos, piano duels and comic invention where the whodunit is beside the point
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I am truly enamored with the process of making photographs with an 8x10 view camera. It is unique, and distinctively different than even shooting 4x5, which I do a lot of. This is part of my ongoing Hive Minded Missouri Beekeepers portrait project. #8x10 #largeformat #largeformatphotography
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Healing the body is expensive. Transcending the reality of space and time is free. It’s just so obvious once you do the math. Do the math now. Then we shall cut every math department. The Zen of Dying Quietly, and Other Teachings by Senator Joni Ernst www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The Zen of Dying Quietly, and Other Teachings by Senator Joni Ernst
“Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans’ cuts to M...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Livin' la Vida Loca
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Another from my recent foray into #perryvillemo to photograph a husband/wife team of #amateurbeekeepers as part of my ongoing #missouribeekeepersphotographyproject. When I work with these subjects, our sessions are part #envionmentalportrait and part #documentaryphotography.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
When Your Barn Door's Open. This is a decent scan, but I can't wait to work on this photograph in the darkroom so I can make the siding look less blown out and improve the contrast. #toycamera #originaldiana #dianacamera #foma400 #oldbarn #shotonfilm #filmshooter
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Come Down. The barn was razed a week or so after I made this photograph with an Original Diana camera and some Holga 400 (Foma 400) film. Reminds me exactly of why I love to shoot toy cameras. #toycamera #diana #oldbarn
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Raoul Benavides @raoulofthirds.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A new, treelined Life On Snob Hill blogpost. Check it out: www.qwerkyphotography.com/life-on-snob...
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One Tree (Snob) Hill — qwerky studio
For centuries, philosophers have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: what is humanity’s place in nature? Are we caretakers? Conquerors? Cosmic accidents with delusions of grandeur? From the s...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Adams On Theater! Through June 1: “& Juliet” Rewrites the Bard with Glitter, Guts and a Whole Lot of Max Martin open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
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Through June 1: “& Juliet” Rewrites the Bard with Glitter, Guts and a Whole Lot of Max Martin
This pop-powered remix of “Romeo & Juliet” trades tragedy for empowerment, reinvention and a surprisingly sharp take on identity, authorship and the joy of rewriting your own ending
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Safe Behind Bars From one of my many wanderings while making photographs as part of my True North Project. #qwerkystudio #streetphotography #orwofilm #un4 #leica #leicam5 #50mmsummicron
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Recent session with folks near Perryville, Mo -- second apiary, located deeper into the country, amongst fields. We took a ride in his side by side to get there. I climbed into the bed of the vehicle and leaned over the cab roof to make this with a #TeleRolleiflex #beekeeper #hivemindedproject
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“If you want to learn how to shoot in manual mode, and you're doing it with film instead of a digital camera, you're taking swimming lessons with lead bricks in your pocket.” booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2021/02/coun...
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Counterintuitively Intuitive
Fountain pens, automatic watches, tube amps, revolvers, mechanical cameras... There's a certain fascination with this bygone tech. I've gone...
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Your Hand In Mine. From my ongoing True North project, 15+ years and still going. This scene wasn't pretty in color, but rendered much better in b/w. #orwofilm #orwoun54 #leica #leicam5 #50mmsummicron #qwerkystudio #shotonfilm #filmneverforgets #emulsive #shootmorefilm
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Adams On Theater. I sooo needed an evening of good theater after a day job day in hell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbYh...
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World Premiere of Summer Baer's "Scream, Echo. Scream." at Metro Theatre Co.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Body Work. Light is energy. I believe everything is energy. I sense, or am attracted to, energy in scenes. Being attuned to the energy of a scene is my form of synesthesia -- an involuntary experience and merging of the senses. My camera is how I record that. #streetphotography #leicam5 #orwofilm
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I watched an excellent documentary about #romanvishniac and was inspired to buy this equally excellent #photobook. Amazing backstory and work. More than 14,000 negatives were stolen by the Nazi and from those he saved these are among the best. Highly recommend!
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Border Crossing. 1/2 of a diptych I'm working on for my upcoming solo show (and book), True North at St. Louis Artists' Guild this summer.
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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I’m in no way complaining, but I got this box of 4x5 slightly expired film for $169. I will be more discriminating before I click.
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