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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

(I imagine its blue light suddenly flashing, and it beetling off along the pavement, at speed.)

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

*looks at more joyful maintenance hole photos* What a splendid thing to do to make Mondays better. Thank you, Richard!

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Such a pile up of semi-orderly, semi-chaotic activity -- it ends up with almost a natural smoothness, the sharp corners of individual human intent and action crashed together so much that they are rather rounded off.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The more you look the more you see. Got a tale or two to tell, that one.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

There's good news, too: the resurgence of the Co-op, or other competitive local/convenience shop.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I don't understand, and I don't know what to say, about decline in town centres, across the country. Was this an inevitable downside, a known & Faustian quid pro quo, of globalization? of internet shopping that bypasses council rates? Or was this change unforeseen, mismanaged, misgoverned? *sigh*

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the man-hole.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit ... if I'm remembering it right? ;-) A portent, in any case.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Just beautiful photographs, Dave! Perfect. Dreamy, with cubs out there amongst the dandelions -- kindergarteny :-) Are these guys in the UK?

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Such a peculiar beauty in this... And a very very human portrait, ... just with the humans absent. Straight through-line from archaeology to still-life?

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MehceePhotos (Em) @mehceephotos.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Happy Wednesday folks. Some lumpy hills this morning, I've run out of waterfalls 😆 #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Photography #Sunrise

Undulating pointy hills are illuminated by the early morning sun.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 16/02/2025

If you're an engineer that's curious about what it's like to scale Bluesky, give this pod a listen! Autumn and Justin are such fun hosts too

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Great portrait, and the writing is a perfect vignette too. 👏

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Great portrait, and the writing is a perfect vignette too. 👏

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Beautiful -- thanks for sharing.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

👋 hello! A good feeling when you get a portrait / self-portrait that makes you think... yeah, that's the one 👍 (...eek: I guess by implication this means I have, much more often than not, been kinda shocked to be presented with the reality of my appearance! 😆)

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Mark LJ @marklittlejohn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Black and gold

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Some cool light rays over Grand Canyon Cape Royale… Funny story about this shot is I ended there by total coincidence. Full story in ALT. #bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #light #travel

Divine light over the mesmerizing reliefs of Grand Canyon.
Story: back in 2019 I took a long roadtrip in Southwest US, mostly in Utah, in middle of summer. After a week, I was literally dying from the heat, so I followed the advice of a random guy I met on one of the spots I visited: going to GC to get some fresh air (higher altitude). But the thing is I had zero plans, no precise locations in mind… So when I arrived in GC I just went around shooting randomly. On that day, I was exploring a spot for sunset but quickly realized it wouldn’t be ideal for sunset light, so I was hesitant about what to do. That’s when I met a local and started to chat with him, then he proposed to take me to a spot that was ideal for sunset. I followed him and ended in that spot. It’s been one of the best shooting I had during the whole trip 😂. Crazy light, beautiful sunset, incredible location. Sometimes having no plan = good plan on the end.

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Still Life with Tea Towel

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

*grabs jawbone* ... "The physicists think it could be some kind of a... communication portal, sir." :-)

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Looking more closely, the tree-like ('dendritic') pattern around each centre looks like it could be a drainage effect: like rivers merging as they head down to the sea -- but incredibly symmetrical, because the ice they are cutting through is so uniform and featureless.

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Christopher Harrison Photography @charrisonphotos.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Frozen Textures ❄️ I captured this textural abstract black and white photograph from my drone in the Scottish Highlands. It's not the usual type of capture that does well on social media, but that's okay. I'm sure some of you will enjoy it too 😃 #bnw #nature #photography #abstract #drone

Overhead view of a frozen surface with star-shaped patterns where melting ice has drained into central points. Layers of snow create contrasting textures around the stars, lending a subtle, intricate design to the otherwise white, wintry scene. Cairngorms national park, Scotland

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Fun to guess what caused this. Hole in a sheet of floating ice, allowing a circular puddle that absorbs solar heat better and reinforces melt?? Do you know, @charrisonphotos.bsky.social ?

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I am fascinated by the #iceformation. Those large circles -- what's responsible for that symmetry, the process that 1) picks the centre, 2) determines radius, isotropic (same regardless of direction, ie. circle), and 3) quite similar across several circles. bsky.app/profile/fion...

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john-pow.bsky.social @john-pow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hidden away on a secluded hill top in the Cairngorms National Park is the Balmoral Pyramid, or Prince Albert's Cairn. This unique structure was commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1862 as a tribute to her beloved husband, Prince Albert.

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Rachael Talibart @rachaeltalibart.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Here be dragons. My favourite photo from the frozen south.

A portrait format photo of a snow cornice that looks a bit like a monster, on top of a peak caught in a beam of sunlight amid swirling blue clouds.

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Phobos over Mars Full size: flic.kr/p/2qJrbGD Credit: Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY Raw images: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin @esa.int ESA Mars Express HRSC Orbit 3868 2007-01-10 Filter S13 H3868_0000_S13.IMG Colourised image using data processed from: psa.esa.int My album about Phobos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL

An image taken from orbit shows the potato-shaped satellite Phobos orbiting Mars. The perspective places Phobos very close to the Martian limb, above elongated whitish clouds near the terminator. Phobos appears predominantly grey, while the surface of Mars displays tones ranging from rusty red to darker hues near its terminator. Some craters are visible on the surface of Mars, they should be much larger than Phobos. The camera scanning the satellite causes the view of the Martian surface to appear stretched as it moves by.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Clever capture! Beautiful things everywhere. Bluesky lets us see things we want to see. So, we do! It lets people behave like people -- not like engagement animals. Thanks @jay.bsky.team and the @bsky.app team.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

(Don't read the ALT text yet....) Can you figure out what this is a photo of? Clever capture, Bree! @xobreex3.bsky.social

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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 30/01/2025

A reworking of a photo from the Lake District that became my favourite from 2024. I had to make it very different from the original but I think it still holds together. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers #nikon

A complex view of a tarn in the Lake District with branches hanging down in the foreground and a deep red acer bush glowing in the background.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

How lovely to see the Coal Face exhibition and all the incredible work that @louisepowell.bsky.social and @martintype.bsky.social have put in. Also wonderful to see Tot, who I interviewed in 2016 for my first book, who is now 100(!) and still remembered me. Fantastic.

Portraits on a wall with the title coal face in the middle

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Huzzah! 😆 It's such a clever picture: confounding and playful and an impossible fiction at first glance, and then it reveals itself as ... a real scene, really in the lakes. Just the facts. :-D 👏

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Cyurtainly looks like it! What a crazy situation we're in, rolling round and round on this rock, spinning, spinning. Docking porthole, but nothing for it to dock with for light years all around.

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Beautiful -- tutti frutti fantasia amongst the fells! 👏 love the inventiveness of the concept and composition 🍋‍🟩🍋🍎

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brad-r.bsky.social @brad-r.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Absolutely stunning, beautiful, and memorable images. They are all much, much wow :-D (The lady in the dune hollow! The fox cubs! The penguins! 😲) Thank you, Dave! 🙏👏👏👏

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