Welcome to my humble website, I'm Pokey. I take a lot of photos and sometimes write articles about various topics including history, architecture, old tech, the paranormal, and more.
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*drops a slide projector[1] on the table with an audible thunk* lets begin! so I picked up film photography recently, mostly on the back of finding and purchasing a Weird Little Guy This brick of a camera is a Ricoh Mirai[2] 105, a successor? product…
Continue reading...Kissimmee is unfortunately largely discussed in Orlando's shadow. To the average out of towner, it's simply a highway that feeds you into the House of Mouse, populated only by cheap motels and B-tier attractions trying to scam you out of your tourism dollars. I think…
Continue reading...Lake Wales is a pocket of suburbia in southeast Polk County, still relatively isolated from the mega sprawl consuming the rest of the county around Lakeland and Winter Haven. For me, getting here involves a 60-mile rural drive along Florida's Route 60, with the biggest…
Continue reading...Originally published on September 3rd, 2024 on Cohost (RIP) For our next drone-related tale, we’ll sail across the Atlantic to the US, and trek over to western Nebraska and across the state line to northeastern Colorado, where for at least 2 months locals reported swarms…
Continue reading...Originally published on April 27th, 2024 on Cohost (RIP) Drones are well-tread ground in the world of the paranormal- since the earliest, crudest remote control systems were strapped to a set of wings, they became simple explanations for a litany of unidentified flying objects. As…
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