Nicole Rubin Photo

06/08/2026

I got inspired & carried away taking photos while working on a commercial several days this past week. It’s been a great week, just filled with so much motivation & inspiration. However there’s always some sort of grief and things playing like movies in my mind at all times. I feel like my work brings out a sense of emotion; maybe?

What’s wild to me is I was taking these photos with my IPhone in RAW, while working with a RED Raptor, that with the lens was over 40k. What a beauty. - how can you not be inspired by sexy camera gear?

Anyways, I need to start driving with my camera, because I’ve been only using my phone lately.
Thoughts?

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06/04/2026

Did you know the snow on Pluto is red?

Totally irrelevant to this photo, but read that in my random facts of the day while editing this photo I took in downtown Chicago, home sweet home, while filming a commercial. Love me some random useless facts & knowledge.

This green on light on the hand, always makes me think of my brother. His high green socks while jumping out of planes, living his life fully - even if it was cut too short and the skies were calling.

Take time to pause and live in the moment today, breathe in that fresh air. You are ALIVE and there is beauty to be seen even in the midst of every day chaos. We just have to pause to see it.

05/28/2026

My brothers’ were skydivers and BASE jumpers.
Angels and one with the sky

AND
they left the light on! 😱

Everything single thing you see here is 100% REAL off of my phone.

05/22/2026

There was no disclaimer about getting weird in the Amityville horror house they used for filming, but something tells me with all the stories and the attic filled with dead bees, cold spots, weird letters and x rays in the basement, that we probably made the spirits in the house feel some sort of way.
What an experience I will never forget.

Swipe right for some more 90s aesthetic edits of the first photo.

Thanks to for setting up this shoot with her amazing company and for modeling for some of these badass shots!

05/21/2026

05/20/2026

Is anyone else stoked it’s finally starting to feel like Chicago summer?

05/19/2026

Somewhere between architecture and arson aesthetics.

Which frame survives? 1-5?

05/18/2026

Yesterday, for National Pickle Day, collaborated with and it did not disappoint! Way better than Sonic’s pickle smoothie a while back. It’s a good day when it involves pickles!

05/16/2026

We all have that one friend that’s obsessed with pickles.

In this instance, it’s me.

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HAPPY NATIONAL PICKLE DAY! 🥒

May you brine in the shine, eat so many pickles that you get dillerious.

The ONLY dillllema you should have today, is needing to restock up on pickles. LLL

Also, lol ls the GOAT. More on that later.

05/09/2026

I posted the cleaner edit yesterday.

This is the version that stayed in my head.