Ross Orr, silver-based life form.

I like to mess around with cameras, preferably kind of quirky ones.

I like experiencing history via old photos, whether my town's, my own, or in general.

My main presence on Flickr for about 20 years was film photos: A black border around any of my photos is the blank film outside what the camera exposed. But as of 2025 I'm bringing contrarianism into the future with a "laughable" vintage DSLR for photos of Ann Arbor's lively scene of rock covers bands. This means now I sometimes {shudder} crop photos, which previously I had considered a kind of moral failing.

Some of my most-viewed Flickr photos are of various oddball DIY projects, so please, check 'em out.

Other stuff you might want to peek at: friends, pinhole photography, musicians, black & white, shots from a modified Brownie, architecture, scenes from my town, old photos from the archives, messing with polaroids, some of my peculiar photographic apparatus, and my sets about fire and strange car wheels...

My former blog Silverbased.org had a regrettable face-plant; but if you are curious go check out the Wayback Machine.

I toot, if you're into that kind of thing.

For a few years I was one of the folks who kept camera-wiki.org chugging along. The wiki has another Flickr account where many of the geeky images might come from me; and a Mastodon account with updates about what's happening.

NOTE: if you click one of the blue links above and get an "Oops that doesn't exist" screen, it is because Flickr's new owners are letting some of the site's old functionality die. Just refresh a couple of times and I promise you will get there.