# cont (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cont. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117116421799242579) _2026-08-18 · Jon Bosak_ Going up to Rochester for the second cataract surgery today (right eye this time -- my "taking" eye). Results for the left eye are pleasing, so I hope for a good outcome. I may skip posts for a day or two if losing corrections for both eyes (till I get new glasses) slows me down significantly, which it might. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117116395500216962) _2026-08-18 · Jon Bosak_ Two: Studio shots of my friend Sarah. The Indiana Jones vibe in #1 isn't put on; she actually did work for the Archeological Research Unit out in the desert and really did look most of the time like one or the other of these images. Once we visited Joshua Tree together, and she spent the day showing me all the traces left by the local Indians (shelters and metates, for example), which are… ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117116390946225900) _2026-08-18 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717309: Riverside (1973) Some 6x6 work ("Ilford HP4 Hypersensitive Panchromatic"). More of this coming up. One: The Parent Navel Orange Tree. If you have ever eaten a navel (seedless) orange, it came from a clone of this tree. I once ran a full-service Amoco gas station located a few yards from this monument, so it's fixed pretty firmly in my… ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117111729186260856) _2026-08-17 · Jon Bosak_ Two: Black power and race relations in general were very big issues on campus in 1968-69. Then the war came to dominate our attention. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117111725129610294) _2026-08-17 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717308: UC Riverside (1968 or 1969) Here's a jump backwards in the timeline, but I'm not sure of the year. One: A couple of students. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117107728511959555) _2026-08-16 · Jon Bosak_ RE: https:// mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/1 17107258139142545 Things at night used to be different. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117105804579290501) _2026-08-16 · Jon Bosak_ The tomato shown earlier. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117105564691861658) _2026-08-16 · Jon Bosak_ Two: Someone caught sitting among the eucalipti. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117105561330888611) _2026-08-16 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717307, cont.: UC Riverside (1973?) One: The UCR Campus Police dispatcher. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117101830630908911) _2026-08-15 · Jon Bosak_ As a platform for what I create, I much prefer Mastodon to Bluesky. But the HOA atmosphere here and overt attempts to control how I present my work by throttling its distribution are becoming a bit more than I can take. I'm not quite ready to switch yet, but I can feel that coming. ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FIAGG5MWxymF) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117099784326518586) _2026-08-15 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717307: Riverside (1973?) When I arrived in Riverside in 1966, it was a beautiful rural place dominated by groves of navel oranges (which were invented there). By the time I left in 1982, the groves had been leveled, and Riverside converted into a distant-commute bedroom community for Los Angeles. These photos show an instance of the destruction… ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117094003856096455) _2026-08-14 · Jon Bosak_ Two: Desert bloomscrolling. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117093999692521587) _2026-08-14 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717306: Riverside (1973) One: A Riverside County landscape. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117091377270286526) _2026-08-14 · Jon Bosak_ Once a year I treat myself to Cherokee Purple night, devoted to the consumption of one of the said tomatoes with a mayonnaise-mustard sauce. They are fiendishly difficult to grow (I have sometimes tried). Last week, the few available sold out at the Farmers' Market before I got there. I scored a small one this week and ate it tonight -- transcendent, as usual. But also this afternoon I managed to… ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117088252241724465) _2026-08-13 · Jon Bosak_ Three: My friend Sarah Schlanger. I see that some studio portraits of Sarah are coming up soon, so I will save further comments till then. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117088249537555062) _2026-08-13 · Jon Bosak_ Two: A photo class. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117088246544741557) _2026-08-13 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717304: Riverside (1973) Not an entire roll, just one strip of negatives. One: Window display at an optician's. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117085847254655865) _2026-08-13 · Jon Bosak_ In honor of the eclipse, Annie Dillard's timeless essay. "All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind – the culture – has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world’s work. With these we try to save our very lives." "Total Eclipse." From Teaching a Stone to Talk https://… ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117082339707972666) _2026-08-12 · Jon Bosak_ Three: Finishing-the-roll shots back at the publications office. I think that these people are working on the yearbook. The woman in #2 is pasting up a page or part of a layout. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117082336137118620) _2026-08-12 · Jon Bosak_ Two. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/jaS1kzkn4QIF) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117082331243983999) _2026-08-12 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717303, cont.: Riverside (1973) The roll ends with the opening of the California Museum of Photography, whose collections "are the most extensive photographic holdings in the Western United States" (wikipedia). I took photos of items selected from the initial collection for the brochure that accompanied the opening. I scanned those negs a while… ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117077112761373986) _2026-08-11 · Jon Bosak_ Three: Checking out. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117077110151112239) _2026-08-11 · Jon Bosak_ Two: A display. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117077107326553961) _2026-08-11 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717303, cont.: Riverside (1973) Same roll, now out shopping. One: Baby food. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117071573197571738) _2026-08-10 · Jon Bosak_ Four: A tree. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117071570618543470) _2026-08-10 · Jon Bosak_ Three: Roommate Karen at the laundromat. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117071568011324735) _2026-08-10 · Jon Bosak_ Two: A visit to a thrift store. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117071564385781329) _2026-08-10 · Jon Bosak_ # photography # filmphotography # retrobosak Roll 19717303: Riverside (1973) The usual variety of subjects. One: Picking up processed film at the Fotomat. ## [(untitled)](https://flx.masto.host/@bosak/117065756770333767) _2026-08-09 · Jon Bosak_ Three: Melanie at Sandy's. We spent as much time at Sandy's as we did at Denny's, a little ways farther down University Ave.