taestell

A home for my photos and interesting things I find on the internet.

[brucesterling]

*Software humor

*Yes, it exists

[americaisdead]

radiator springs, ariz. july 2025

© tag christof

[americaisdead]

jackson, miss. july 2025

© tag christof

[creating-a-mess]

100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

love that for 100 years people have looked at these beasts and thought “heehee what if the big one wore the little one like a hat”

[patrickjoust]

patrickjoust | flickr | tumblr | IG | prints for sale

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Fujica GW690

Fujicolor NPL 160T

[americaisdead]

birthday dinner in 1962.

culver city, calif. march 2025

© tag christof

[americaisdead]

palm springs, calif. march 2025

© tag christof

[jkottke]

Musk and the Trump Administration are lying about not purging anyone from the FAA involved in safety. A fired FAA employee: “The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”

[americaisdead]

it's the last week to see Southern Democratic at The Carnegie, curated by Phillip March Jones. Part of FotoFocus Cincinnati.

exhibition photography by Jesse Ly.

[taestell]

The Doctor Funkenstein cocktail from the book Tropical Standard: Cocktail Techniques & Reinvented Recipes by Garret Richard and Ben Schaffer.

[effinbirds]

[jkottke]

For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website. “It will only become more painfully clear how important sovereign websites are to protecting information and free expression.”

[vintagelasvegas]

Sahara, Las Vegas – early 80s. Casino, Casbar lounge, House of Lords, Don the Beachcomber. Photos from a souvenir photo sleeve by Cashman Photo Enterprises. Harris and Morgan Cashman’s firm held exclusive concessions to photograph patrons in several hotels in Las Vegas, and elsewhere. Eric Lynxwiler collection.

[americaisdead]

altadena, calif. january 2024

© tag christof

[taestell]

Tag has done some amazing work capturing the devastation of the California wildfires.

[taestell]

Top: Stephen Shore's photograph of the corner of 15th and Vine in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, made on May 15, 1974.

Bottom: My photo of the same location 50 years later, made on May 12, 2004.

[taestell]

One of my favorite shots from 2024. Quintessential Palm Springs.

📷 Hasselblad Xpan II 🎞️ Kodak Portra 400

[jkottke]

Some of the most prized public spaces in Europe were once used for parking lots (and some still are). “Why are we so comfortable filling our most iconic public spaces with a bunch of metal boxes?”