#GrainIsGood

2025-10-11
What do you do when you get stuck deciding which photos to post ?
In a way, every photo already belongs to the past, the moment it’s taken, it becomes history.

I once had the idea of responding to other photographers images with my own photos.
And this morning, I saw the picture by

https://pixelfed.social/p/Guyom_Guyom/882256151418859818

The perfect moment to share my own experience of that beautiful place.

Villa Empain #villaempain in #Brussels.

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#analog is timeless.
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2025-10-10

Out into the night, electric light and games at the CNE.

Hasselblad 500C 50/4 Distagon
Kodak Portra 800 EI1600 Push+1
Monopod

#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #BelieveInFilm #GrainIsGood #MediumFormatFilm #120Film #KodakProfessional #KodakFilm #Hasselblad500C #HasselbladCamera #LetsGoToTheEx #TheCNE #CanadianNationalExhibition #CNE2025

Gambling in the dark: the Ontario Lottery and Gambling paddock looks retro and futuristic simultaneously in the night.A chaotic whirl of motion around a game stall that features rubber mallets and small catapults on an astroturf ledge.Texaco Gasoline & Motor Oil proclaims a neon sign next to a racetrack game.
2025-10-09

I didn’t spend much time inside at the Ex but long enough to find the polished stones that fascinated me as a kid and a surreal flower installation.

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Kodak Portra 800 EI1600 Push+1

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Trays of small polished stones, sold by the bag, surrounded by Buddha figures.Ferns surround churning mist rising from pools, above which hover giant sunfish constructed of bright multicoloured flowers.
2025-10-09
The photographer…
Back in "the village".
When I took this photo, I remember there wasn’t much appreciation from the people involved — more a kind of tolerance.
Sometimes I try to capture moments of what’s happening in the community around me.
The strange thing is that everyone is constantly taking pictures with their phones, and that’s perfectly accepted, while a real camera often draws suspicion.

This image suddenly became meaningful when one of the people in it passed away unexpectedly… Photography is also a form of archiving — and it certainly doesn’t need to happen that fast.

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#analog is timeless.
#filmphotography #kodak #photography #ishootfilm #grainisgood #halfframe #pentax #halfframeclub #analogphotography #thisisbelgium #belgië #Afsnee #ghent
2025-10-09

“Prize Guaranteed!” The second, unstated, guaranteed: you will be separated from your money. All fun at that games!

Hasselblad 500C 50/4 Distagon
Kodak Portra 800 EI160 Push+1

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Toss a ring on a bottle a win one of the colourful stuffies hanging all around the game booth.I think you’re supposed to throw a ring on a rubber duck.A veritable gang of colourful monster stuffies crowded into the end of the Bottle Up game stand look intent on defending their turf.A giant inflatable yellow rubber duck wearing a black mask fills the left side of the frame a ninja turtles hang from the awning of a game involving floating rubber ducks.
A d d i e B e a laddiebeal@pixelfed.social
2025-10-07
I’m back! It’s been such a hectic summer and sadly I’ve had to take a break from Pixelfed. Summer and fall are the busiest times of season for me as a commercial lobsterman. I have many photos from the past few months I’m excited to share with you all.

{🎞️: Silberra color 160}
{📷: Canon eos 10s}

#film #ShootFilm #ShotOnFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #AnalogPhotography #GrainIsGood #FilmCommunity #photography #SilberraFilm #maine #MainePhotography #MaineCoast #MaineIslands #beach #summer
A film photo of a white sandy beach flanked by pink granite and spruce trees on the coast of Maine. In the foreground there are worn chunks of granite protruding from the sand at the edge of the tree line along with a few piles of seaweed and some clusters of beach grass. The sand dotted with more patches of dried seaweed and sloped down to a cove. The coastline stretches into the distance and more spruce forest is visible in the background. Two people stand a ways down the beach
2025-10-07
Do you know that feeling, a certain view you see almost every day,
and yet…
it still catches you. It’s the perfect cityscape with the perfect light.

#Brussels by light :D

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#analog is timeless.
#filmphotography #kodak #photography #ishootfilm #grainisgood #halfframe #pentax #halfframeclub #analogphotography #thisisbelgium #belgië
2025-10-07

Wandering towards the midway on a perfect afternoon at The Ex. Here’s a selection from my third roll of film on the day.

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Kodak Portra 160

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“Do not spit from ride. Remain seated.” warns a sign at one end of the SkyRide, an overhead chairlift that runs from one end of the main fairground to the other. People stroll around below with the midway in the distance.Food stands from roasted corn to deep fried cheese curds. The main ferris wheel towers beyond.“Chunks o Chicken” and “Curly’s Fries”, people silhouetted by the afternoon sun that flares the end of the frame, SkyRide overhead.The old fashioned carnival swing and ferris wheel split the frame with an arc of swingers between.
2025-10-06

The Ex was a perfect end of summer fair this year. I carried one camera and lens and spent eight rolls of film. Here’s the second set.

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Kodak Portra 160 EI125

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A woman walks past a cluster of plastic ferns with the kids’ midway behind her.A fountain in the sun with slow slow shutter speed motion blur in the cascades of water.A quiet moment as a man walks pasts an old fashioned illuminated sign that spells “FLYER”, those of a certain age will recognize the sign from the somewhat infamous wooden roller coaster from The Ex of yore. A security guard sits in the shade nearby.People gather and enter the Better Living Centre and banners advertise an exhibit entitled “The Farm”.
2025-10-06
If you love #Brussels and ice cream, this is the spot, and the view.
But the sun is slowly slipping into its winter sleep, so time for an ice cream is becoming a little rare.

#photography with a #halfframe #pentax17

#analog is timeless.
#filmphotography #kodak #photography #ishootfilm #grainisgood #halfframe #pentax #halfframeclub #analogphotography #thisisbelgium #belgië #icecream
2025-10-06

I went to The Ex for the first time in years and it was perfect - exactly the way the end of summer fair should be. I carried one camera and lens and spent eight rolls of film. Here’s the first set.

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Kodak Portra 160

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The garishly coloured Candy Time stand with pink, blue, and yellow flags waving against a blue sky. Popcorn, candy apples, sno kones!Sun flares across the frame as folks walk along the north side of the soccer stadium.People gather round a citrus shaped lemonade stand with the rides of the kids’ midway behind them.There be pirates! A pirate ship themed slide, accessed by a plank bridge, in the kids’ midaway.
2025-10-06
Maybe it’s an insignificant little photo, but it captures something we’ve almost forgotten.

Since the sun hits the front of our house in the late afternoon, my daughter and a friend decided to sit out front on a couple of chairs and chat.
Back in the day, this was the most natural thing in neighborhoods, people sitting outside, talking, connecting.

It created a strong sense of community.


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#analog is timeless.
#filmphotography #kodak #photography #ishootfilm #grainisgood #halfframe #pentax #halfframeclub #analogphotography #thisisbelgium #belgië #ghent
2025-10-05
Where I live, near Ghent, there’s a ferry crossing over the River Leie.
One of my favourite spots.
Of course, over the years I’ve taken quite a few photos there

Maybe I haven’t shared enough of them on Pixelfed ?

https://pixelfed.social/p/LievenSymaeys/794856993655921932

Anyway, there’s also an #Afsnee collection.

https://pixelfed.social/c/794858816222900479


#photography with a #halfframe #pentax17

#analog is timeless.
#filmphotography #kodak #photography #ishootfilm #grainisgood #halfframe #pentax #halfframeclub #analogphotography #thisisbelgium #belgië #ghent

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