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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 11/10/2026

Tonight I'm sending another newsletter because I need somewhere to put all my photos. If you want to see them, and hear me talk a lot about how I dealt with being nervous and scared through photography, you can subscribe at newsletter.ultraviolet.photo #filmphotography #photography #BelieveInFilm

A subway train operator waiting to leave, resting their arms out the window of the Times Sq — 42nd St shuttle.

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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 Oregon

mb, 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 · 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

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

Mirrored self portrait in Powell’s Books.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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