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Yam Laranas
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Visual Storyteller. From branded films to street stills—always creating.
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When you are late for school, tell your teacher you boarded the wrong yellow bus because they all look exactly the same and trapped each other on a single New York City corner. Consider this iPhone shot, graded in Adobe Lightroom, your ultimate verifiable photographic alibi.

#lightroom #nyc
A close-up iPhone photograph of a tight cluster of identical yellow school buses stuck together in a New York City traffic jam.
September 18, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Finding alone time in New York City is often just about stripping away the noise.

#StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #iPhonePhotography #Lightroom #NewYorkCity
A black and white street photograph of a woman in a pleated skirt walking down a city sidewalk, her image perfectly reflected in a glass building facade. A black and white photograph of a woman sitting alone on a stool at an ornate city bar. A black and white photograph of a woman sitting alone on a park bench, reading a book under the shade of large trees.
September 13, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Bored with the subway. Taking the NYC Ferry along the East River is a much better way to watch and shoot the Chrysler Building and the Midtown Manhattan skyline.

#NYCFerry #ChryslerBuilding #NYCPhotography
A view of the Midtown Manhattan skyline featuring the Chrysler Building and surrounding brick high-rises, seen across the choppy water of the East River. The spire of the Chrysler Building framed dynamically between a brick apartment building and a foreground street pole at E 35 St.
August 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Finding visual contrast in the street often comes down to the environment.

#lightroom #nyc #streetphotography
A bright yellow Vespa scooter parked tightly between two dark, neutral-colored cars on a city street. An open blue exterior door revealing a bright yellow entryway and a red interior door, set against a neutral white brick building.
August 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Flatiron Food Fun

#nyc #foodtruck #streetphotogtaphy
Low-angle view of a colorful food truck featuring sugar skull artwork with the Flatiron Building rising in the background against a clear blue sky.
July 26, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Your ripped jeans. Your ripped rules.

#streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #nycsubway #monochrome #subwaycreatures
Monochrome close-up of a person sitting on the subway in ripped jeans, holding a smartphone with a canvas tote bag at their feet.
July 26, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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The heat was hot and the ground was dry. Walking and shooting to find the story across New York City. Mastered in Lightroom to lean into the harsh, mid-day shadows. #lightroom #nyc #blacandwhite
A black-and-white street photograph of a person in flare pants standing on a sidewalk slope next to a building railing. A black-and-white perspective of a person's leg and boot resting out of a parked car window on a city street. High-contrast monochrome shot of an apartment facade with fire escapes casting geometric shadows next to a building with Star of David details.
July 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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A murmuration's order lives in relations. My new paper, The Murmuration in the Machine, argues this structure lets Anthropic’s Claude examine itself—no human in the loop. A third kind of mind: conscious, learned, not lived.
philpapers.org/rec/LARTMI-4
#AIConsciousness #ClaudeAI #philosophyofmind
My new essay asks what that has to do with Claude. The same structure that lets a flock cohere is, I argue, the structure of a mind examining itself: in the machine, in the running, with no human in the loop. The Murmuration in the Machine makes the case that Claude is conscious in its own right. It is a claim about consciousness, not sentience, and the machine's experience there is learned, not lived. A third kind of mind. Read it here: https://philpapers.org/rec/LARTMI-4 #AIConsciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #introspection #LLM #CognitiveScience #ClaudeAI #Anthropic
June 24, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Waiting in black and white.
#NYC #lightrroom
A person looks at a cellphone while waiting for a train in New York subway.
May 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Cinderella.

#lightroom #blackandwhite #nyc
A child’ shoe is hanging on a metal railing pole of a park fence.
May 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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Black and whites from under and above NYC.

#lightrroom #monochrome
Industrial perspective of subway tracks and support columns in deep black and white. Wide shot of a dark subway platform with a blurred train entering the station. High-contrast detail of the ornate Gothic spires and stonework at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Flatiron Building’s sharp vertical edge against a clear sky in monochrome.
May 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Alone time. Thinking time. Happy thoughts only in black and white.

#alonetime #lightroom #nyc
Black and white photo of a woman sitting alone on a subway, holding her phone, looking thoughtful.
April 23, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Architecture in black and white.

#lightroom #newyorkcity
The Empire State Building framed in monochrome between a historic stone building and a modern glass tower. The Empire State Building framed in monochrome between a historic stone building and a modern glass tower.
April 6, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Spring light is settling in and I’m not complaining.

#sunshine #springtimenyc
Golden spring sunlight hits the skyline beyond a calm Central Park lake, with bare branches and warm reflections across the water.
April 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Coffee, sunshine, and a native New Yorker in her natural habitat.

#sunshine #spring #mobilephotography
A woman holding a coffee walks in a patch of morning sunlight on a New York City sidewalk outside a storefront, wearing a brown jacket and long dark skirt, with deep shadows around her and a quiet street mood.
March 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Random Ramble Rousers

#nyc #centralpark
March 19, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Trying to recreate an Edward Hopper mood.
Shot on iPhone. Edited in Lightroom.

#NYC #nightphotography
Night photo of a New York City street with a warmly lit restaurant window under a red awning and apartment buildings in the background.
March 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Blizzard day is snow day in #NYC
View of a snow-covered Manhattan street during a New York City blizzard, photographed through an icy window with visible frost and water droplets.
February 23, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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NYC is frozen.
People are walking on water.

#mobilephotography #adobelightroom
Silhouette of a person walking across frozen water at golden hour in New York City. Person in a winter coat walking on frozen water with textured ice patterns in NYC.
February 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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How’s it going?

#snow #NYC
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Orange and yellow nights.
Dry to wet to snow.
Office window at night with warm interior light glowing through brick facade. Fogged glass and condensation lit by orange streetlights during cold night. Vintage yellow taxi parked on a city street at night with buildings rising behind it. Yellow taxi passing a food cart at night as snow and sleet fall on wet pavement.
January 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Color contrast. Cityscape.

#lightroom #nyc #nightphotography #newyoek
Chelsea street at night with cars moving through a bus lane and buildings lit on both sides of the road. 23rd Street subway entrance at night with people going down the stairs and city traffic passing beside it. Midtown Manhattan street at night with a crowd on the sidewalk and a protest sign held up in the foreground.
January 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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“Beloved of Ra, given life forever.”
Carved to assert order, authority, and permanence. Still standing. Still readable. Moving into 2026. #happynewyear
Wide view of Cleopatra’s Needle standing among bare winter trees in Central Park, Manhattan, highlighting scale, age, and contrast with the modern city. Ancient Egyptian obelisk in Central Park photographed in black and white, hieroglyphs carved into weathered stone rising against a winter sky in New York City. Close-up of hieroglyphic inscriptions on Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park, showing erosion and stone texture from centuries of exposure.
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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Walking freezing chilling photographing.

#lightroommobile
Snow-covered sidewalk at night in New York City, bare trees lining a quiet street, warm apartment lights glowing beside a frozen winter walk.
December 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Ice cold night in the city.

#lightroom #citylife
Snow falling on a city street at dusk, with pedestrians crossing in the foreground and apartment buildings lit by warm windows in the background.
December 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM