Duncan Petrie

7 Mar

This is a bee I found under my sofa. She had some honey and was on her way

7 Mar

My flat has a history of bees. Every summer, I have a few bee weeks, where every day I find a new bumblebee somewhere, behind the tv, in my closet, etc. This is the first one of the year. I haven’t opened my windows in days. Where are they coming from? Are they living in the walls?

I made a new years resolution to be more online, and so far it is not going well!

I think the solution is to say things anyway. At worst, the internet is a place to keep my things. At best, someone comes along, every once and a while, and I get to say hello

Thinking less, doing more, telling people I like their work And not letting the things I want to share rot away in drafts

I made a new years resolution to be more online, and so far it is not going well!

It’s interesting that for some people, the internet has wildly opened up their lives, given them community, made them new friends, but for others, it’s made them more anxious, more perfectionist, less willing to say anything at all Maybe for some it’s done both at the same time

Another reason I don’t post much is of course that it feels like I’m screaming into the void. I’m not really screaming, though. There’s a romance to screaming into the void. Whatever I’m doing is quieter, less glamorous. Piping up into the void. Thinking aloud into the void. Mostly, just watching

I made a new years resolution to be more online, and so far it is not going well!

One reason I don’t post much is because I want everything I post to be perfect. The thing about Online is that it tricks you into believing you *can* be perfect, that you have as much time as you want to edit and polish and reedit, that you can keep approaching perfection, and returns never diminish

But of course perfection is impossible, and returns do diminish, and I’m always more satisfied anyway when I think less about things, when I share something spontaneously

I made a new years resolution to be more online, and so far it is not going well!

Sounds silly but I do want to share more, and share things that aren’t as polished. I’m definitely online, I just don’t participate, and I want to get better at that

6 May 2025

A wall in two lights #photography #film

4 May 2025

This is the sea as seen from the Great western railway service to. penzance. calling at. newton abbot. totnes. plymouth. liskeard. bodmin parkway. par. st austell. truro. redruth. st erth and. penzance. This train has. eight. coaches #photography #film

Good talk good book! (I assume, I’ve read about 10 pages)

Had a great time yesterday at #AllDayHey in Leeds! Now it is time to make things

And the last talk, by @katiefenn.bsky.social

But they were all incredible!

Had a great time yesterday at #AllDayHey in Leeds! Now it is time to make things

I only managed to take a photo of the first talk, by @lolaodelola.bsky.social

29 Apr 2025

This is what the water in the new forest looks like.

29 Apr 2025

And this is where that water is running.

27 Apr 2025

Scans came back! Horizon in Falmouth, Cornwall. #film #photography

27 Apr 2025

Did some horizon blurs for the first time in a while and was surprised be how even they are. On my digital camera, I used to have to take loads to get a few good ones, but all three of them on this roll of film turned out pretty ok I think

27 Apr 2025

Except for this one. This one’s a little wonky.

26 Apr 2025

First frame of a new roll of film. I climbed out my window to take the throwaway shots and wound up with this. I know it’s cliche to keep the burn line but I like that the color of it matches the color of the chimneys #photography #film

24 Mar 2025

Another cmyk screenprint, this time of a photograph I took at Aldwick Bay, near Bognor Regis. Those three green clumps are sea kale. Whenever I tell anyone I went to Bognor Regis they look concerned and ask me why, but I thought it was nice #cmyk #photography #screenprinting #bognor #westsussex

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9 Feb 2025

duncanpetrie.com/sancho is something I finished today. It’s a weird little webpage that spits out a new bunch of Sancho Panza’s proverbs every time you refresh

9 Feb 2025

Probably not the best thing to do with my time, but jests become realities, and all affectation is bad, and if the shoe fits.., and a lot of littles make a lot, and grass doesn’t grow on an empty stomach, and that’s just a taste of what awaits you when you visit duncanpetrie.com/sancho

30 Jan 2025

This is a place called Harrington Beach. I think I could have framed the first one a little wider. I’m trying to learn to give my photos more room to breathe - my inclination is always to shoot as tight as possible, but I often end up regretting it #photography #wisconsin

Cmyk! This is a screenprint I made last week of an old photograph of mine. I took it in 2019 while riding a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin #cmyk #photography #screenprinting

Here are some of the more interesting variations: a problem with the squeegee made the first one look a bit like a film still, the magenta was too thick in the second one, and the third one is only halfway done

And this is the original digital photograph. I think the prints look better! Also, taking pictures on a bicycle is hard

Cmyk! This is a screenprint I made last week of an old photograph of mine. I took it in 2019 while riding a bicycle on Washington Island, Wisconsin #cmyk #photography #screenprinting

This is what the prints look like in person:

26 Jan 2025

Here are some things that I saw by the beach

24 Jan 2025

This is the first ‘sunrise’ of 2025, and some lights that I saw on the walk to it. #photography #horizon #milwaukee

24 Jan 2025

I almost didn’t go see the sunrise, because it was cold and cloudy, but a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and the perfect is the enemy of the good, and you miss 100% of the photos you don’t take, and it’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness, and unused milk always spoils, and

24 Jan 2025

Sancho Panza type of rambling