Bob Workmon
@raworkmon
Journalist, photographer, music maker and cookie baker following my curious heart
The elation of two-wheeling around one's own streets. A neighbor kid on Grace Street, 30 April 2026. 📷Canon PowerShot SX150 IS (nice zoom) #photography #canon #bicycling
“The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.” ~Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises @immortalperfumes.bsky.social 📸Bob Workmon #immortalperfumes #literature #hemingway
Rain…on a Monday. Cue Karen and Richard. #fujifilm #pentax #photography #rainydaysandmondays
The sidewalk outside of The Ibis, Wilmington, North Carolina, 15 July 2026. #fujifilm #pentax #windows #photography #soloacts #sidewalkcafe
Imperfect, yes, and I’m still drawn into it. “Sitting there, in the coffee house, I saw so many stories behind the lips of people who had left them untold.” ~Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity #filmphotography #peoplewatching #coffeeshops 📸Canon F-1 🎞️Gold 200
Early June, before the heat beat the jackets off our backs, and ice diluted our coffee forever. #coffeeshop #photography #noiretblanc
A vintage camera with black-and-white film capture the essence of a hymn sing before services on Sunday — images taken at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wilmington, North Carolina. 📸Canon F-1 🎞️Ilford HP5 #photography #nostalgia
On the menu this evening…a buffet a.k.a.TBR stacks. #reading #bibliophile #Middlemarch #SallyRooney
Whimsy, thy name is Power Crab! Seriously, just running a roll of Ilford HP5 through my Nikon F4 to make sure she works. #blackandwhitephotography #photography #whimsy
"I cannot see the bottom of the sky, because I cannot see to the bottom of myself. It is the symbol of my own infinity. My eye penetrates as far into the ether as that depth is inward from which my contemporary thought springs." ~ From Thoreau's Journal; June 23, 1840. #CanonF1 #kodak #photography
Sunday morning’s office and Sunday evening’s ritual. #photography #wilmingtonnc #stpaulsepiscopal #goodpals
Just an average day. Peace, friends ✨🕊️💫 📸X-T2 with an adapted Pentax M 28mm f2.8 lens #photography #fujifilm #wilmingtonnc #castlestreet #lunacaffe
Nostalgia comes quickly now We happy few happy drink This spring cup, we, Grateful we, love for love #camaraderie #theatre #poetry #nostalgia #theatrelife #love #youngatheart
Wandering Front St. in downtown #wilmingtonnc Images 2 & 3 were taken while driving—an experiment—including a memorial to a Marine who had been stabbed at the scene. Elsewhere, a dad and baby dine outside; a couple converse in b&w; Pender’s, home of the Pender Burger #fujifilm #photography
Last Tuesday, I walked around the treehouse, curious. A lost feather and fallen leaf from the Magnolia grandiflora, whose blooms open high above, lie down together. Day lilies reach for light from under their swamp cousins. A day for rambling. #photography #flowers #fujifilm #lensbaby #wilmingtonnc
In costume for a show coming up June 5 in Wilmington, NC. Guys and Dolls is the show and Nicely-Nicely is the role. It’s the voice, really. I sing my face off in “Sit down, you’re rocking the boat.” If you’re in town, come by! #wilmingtonnc #takethestage #communityartscenter #musicaltheatre #nicely
Twenty-eight days to opening night for the Community Arts Center production of Guys and Dolls Sr (June 5). The cast is primed, I tell you, primed. Pictured: David Potter and the irrepressible Linsey McGrath (Sky & Sarah) rehearse. #musicalthreatre #guysanddolls #wilmingtonnc #thalianassociation
Hello, Pipa! Thank you for the follow and the flowers. Here for you are some I photographed from just outside my front door:
Joyeux vendredi, mes amis! A lot more peopling than usual this week, mostly around a certain Front Street coffee shop. #javadog #wilmingtonnc #streetscenes #photography
Ron & Chelsea spotted me wandering a nearly empty downtown street with a camera. They were headed back to Northern Virginia. I’m so glad they stopped. Hug your friends, people. Tell ‘em you love them. #friendship #friends #agape #love #wilmingtonnc #photoop #wandering
Encounters on Thelma L. Bull Bridge, Wilmington, North Carolina, 28 April 2026 “Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure.” ~ Richard Wright, from Native Son #photography #fujifilm #pentax #lightandshadow
Airlie Gardens near Wilmington, North Carolina, on an April afternoon. “It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.” ~Tom Stoppard, Arcadia #photography #airliegardens #nature #fujifilm
Proud to have photographed this gathering last week at WHQR sponsored by NC Local. Pictured are journalists from Wilmington’s print, digital, and broadcast news departments. #localnews #journalism #photography #nclocal #whqr
When last seen… #herefortheduration #theresistance #nokings3 #wilmingtonnc
Scenes from a gathering: No Kings 3 — people en route to the main event from Castle Street — Wilmington, NC 28 March 2026 #photography #streetphotography #nokings #peoplepower
Life on Wilmington's Front Street as witnessed for a few moments on 12 March 2026. “For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.” ~ Simon Van Booy, from Everything Beautiful Began After 📷Canon F-1 50mm f/1.2 🎞️Eastman 2X 200 #blackandwhitephotography #photography