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Tom Waugh
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A Sunderland (UK) born professional photographer since 1979. I earn my living doing what I love.

Now resident in Switzerland and aside from doing photography, I also teach it.

Still as enthusiastic as ever!

All pics are by me, unless stated otherwise.
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Tom Waugh @tomphotographer.bsky.social · Dec 1
I just happened to be walking across Tower Bridge in London, one day in the nineties, when a chip van exploded.
I got this shot before the policeman ushered me away from the scene.

#news
#streetphotography
#Canon
#London
#beprepared
#photography
#freelancing
A British policeman talks on his mobile radio while a van burns in the background on London Bridge.
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It's been lovely of late and the umbrellas are sprouting nicely in downtown #Olten.

#art
#kunst
#umbrellas
#swiss
#schweiz
#colour
#color
Brightly colored umbrellas against a blue sky in Olten Switzerland. Brightly colored umbrellas forming the shape of the coat of arms of Olten in Switzerland.
July 23, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Pimped my Canon VT.

#blackandwhite
#analogue
#35mm
#canon
#rangefinder
#canon_vt
The image shows a Canon VT rangefinder camera from 1956 with a wooden shutter release button and a wooden accessory shoe cover.
July 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Baking hot here in sunny Switzerland, so, I took refuge in a second hand bookstore and came away with these two gems.

#helmut_newton
#werner_bischof
#analogue
#analog
#blackandwhite
#swiss
#photography
#books
#schweiz
#bern
Werner Bischof's photographs in Europe, post WW2. "Us and Them. Photographic reportage by Helmut Newton and his wife Alice Springs. Lovely and cool in the second-hand bookshop in Bern, Switzerland. I got to wear my "Camera Sutra" t-shirt! :D
July 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Whilst waiting in my car, I spotted this giant floating cat outside!

#cat
#cats
#moggy
#floating
#optical_illusion
#swiss
#switzerland
#pixelphone
A cat seemingly floating in the air but in reality balanced on a car windscreen
June 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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#bluesky
#skirkle
#followers
#friends
A "Skirkle" based on 567 interactions with 285 people over the past 538 days.
May 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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I love photography.
When I'm in "the zone", time seems to stand still.
I've been at it since 1979 and am lucky enough to still be passionate about it.

#photography
#longexposure
#Bern
#swiss
#switzerland
#photographer
#canon
#billingham
Tom Waugh adjusts the settings on his camera while life goes on around him. Bern, Switzerland.
May 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Another blast from the past!
Stuttgart in the early eighties.
I call it "Punk on a roof.

This was probably taken with a Canon F1 and a 35mm f2,8.

#streetphotography
#blackandwhite
#kodaktrix
#photography
#canonF1
#stuttgart
#germany
#punk
#punkrock
A punk rocker sits on a gazebo roof in Stuttgart West Germany in 1982.
May 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Don't forget to keep your energy up when on a long photoshoot!

#studio
#photography
#cupcake
#canon
#friday_foto_fun
A Canon 5d MkII is being used as a cupcake holder
April 10, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Say hello to my little friend!
I'm more excited than I have been for a long time about this beautiful 1957 Canon vt. I cannot wait to load it up and take some photographs with it.

#canonvt
#canon_vt
#1956
#35mm
#photography
#collector
#japan
#streetphotography
A 1956 Canon VT camera with a 50mm f2.2 lens A 1956 Canon VT camera with a 50mm f2.2 lens The top plate of a 1956 Canon VT camera with a 50mm f2.2 lens A 1956 Canon VT camera with a 50mm f2.2 lens
March 26, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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I spent a lot of time hanging around this statue.
This was taken in Stuttgart in about 1981.
I was a photographer for the US army. This was taken with a Canon F1 and a 35mm f2,8.
"Denkpartner" by Hans Jörg Limbach

#streetphotography
#blackandwhite
#kodaktrix
#photography
#canonF1
#statue
#germany
A couple canoodle behind the "Denkpartner" statue in Stuttgart in about 1981.
March 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Taking advantage of the rare sunshine last week, I took a stroll through Solothurn which is the finest preserved Baroque style city in Switzerland.

#solothurn
#schweiz
#suisse
#photography
#bluesky
#baroque
Inside the Catholic church in Solothurn. Baroque architecture everywhere you look. Outside the St Ursen Cathedral. One of the many fountains spread through the city.
March 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Still on the nostalgic "looking back" thing.
This was taken in Stuttgart in about 1981.
I was a photographer for the US army. This was taken with a Canon F1 and a 35mm f2,8.
"Denkpartner" by Hans Jörg Limbach

#streetphotography
#blackandwhite
#kodaktrix
#photography
#canonF1
#statue
#germany
John Marshall of the US Army in Stuttgart looks at a statue called "Denkpartner" by Hans Jörg Limbach in 1981.
March 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Currently going through my black and white negs from the 70's until the 90's.
Here's a pic I took on the Isle of Wight in the early eighties.

Probably used a Chinon Cm-3 for it. The lens would have been a 50 or 35mm.

#streetphotography
#blackandwhite
#kodaktrix
#photography
#punk
#punkrocker
A Punk Rocker smoking a cigarette, talks to a friend on the street . Isle of Wight 1979-80
March 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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T'was a rainy night in Basel, Switzerland.
#colours
#switzerland
#nighttime
#rain
#saturated
Red, yellow and blue street furniture on a wet pavement in the rain
February 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Books and photography.
What's not to like!

#bookcabinets
#switzerland
#freebooks
#photography
The photographer is photographed through the glass of a "free books" cabinet in Solothurn, Switzerland
December 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Listening to this, at a quiet volume, on a loop.
So relaxing!
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Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orpheus) by C.W. von Gluck
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
tomphotographer.bsky.social
I took this pic on the London underground escalator. I was going down and they were going up.
I held my camera so that it was the same angle as the escalator! :D

#london
#uk
#tube
#escalator
#angles
#fun
London underground 2025. The camera has been geld at the same angle as the opposite escalator which gives a "leaning" effect.
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I was gifted another #Contax camera last Friday as a thank you for fixing someone's ancient laptop.

I now have a Contax 2 and 2a. Gonna have to buy more film!

#contax2
#thankful
#vintage
#camera
#photography
Contax 2a Contax 2 with an actinic lightmeter.
December 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Felt the urge to shoot at the local #XMAS market yesterday in #Olten.
One camera and one prime lens.

#swiss
#schweiz
#fujifilm
#x-e2
#suisse
#blackandwhite
#14mm
Local church in Olten, Switzerland Fujifilm x-e2 Fujinon 14mm f2. 8 1.7 second exposure @f8 Fujifilm x-e2 Fujinon 14mm f2. 8 Olten art gallery Fujifilm x-e2 Fujinon 14mm f2. 8 1.7 second exposure @f8 Fujifilm x-e2 Fujinon 24mm f2. 8
December 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A couple of months ago, someone gifted me two Leica cameras.
Yesterday, I did someone a favour and he insisted that I have this Contax II camera and actinic light meter. That was after I told him that he could probably flog it for a tidy sum himself!

#analogue
#35mm
#contax
#contaxII
#photography
A Contax II 35mm camera with case and an actinic. Light meter.
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Squeezing the last bits of colour out of Autumn.

#leaves
#trees
#gingko
#swiss
#switzerland
#schweiz
#blätter
#herbst
#autumn
#fujifilmxt2
Early morning condensation on Gingko leaves. New life shoots up. Water droplets on a Gingko leaf. Gingko leaves carpet the ground at Thunstetten castle in Switzerland
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Leaf on a car.

#swiss
#herbst
#autumn
#schweiz
#dendrology
#leaf
#leaves
#blätter
The image shows an Autumn fallen leaf stuck to the side of a white car.
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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View from my bedroom window.
Caught the moon above the Alps at dusk tonight.
For those of you who are interested in such things:

Fujifilm X-T2
18-55 kit lens @55mm
ISO 640
1/60sec @ f6.8

#dusk
#daemmerung
#Fuji
#alps
#swiss
#suisse
#haegendorf
#switzerland
#moon
#mood
View facing south of the Alps with the moon above them. Taken at dusk. 28th of October 2025
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Backlit leaf.

#leaf
#leaves
#herbst
#autumn
#switzerland
#swiss
#schweih
#suisse
#trees
#thunstetten
#simple
#sooc
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Trying to grab as much Autumn as possible! :D

For those of you who are interested:
Fujifilm x-h1
Fujinon 18-55mm

#autumn
#herbst
#suisse
#trees
#fujifilm
#swiss
#switzerland
#Thurnstetten
A row of trees show their Autumn foliage in Thurnstetten, Switzerland A row of trees show their Autumn colours in Thurnstetten, Switzerland Japanese anonemes. Thurnstetten, Switzerland Autumn colours. Thurnstetten, Switzerland
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM