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Charles Rutheiser

@charlesrutheiser.bsky.social

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Mad social scientist, phenomenographer and writer of gothic neo-noir thriller novel MYSTERIES OF THE GREAT CITY (2023) and non-fiction IMAGINEERING ATLANTA (1996). Bibliomaniac Baltimorean. All images mine except for repost or when noted

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Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a neck and neck and neck race for third place. #31DaysofHalloween #BlueskyArtshow #ThirdPlace #Gothtober #hARToween26 #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

A crush of mad skeletons

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Diana @diana-m-keener.bsky.social · 19h

October 3 for #31daysofhalloween #photography #devil #balloonfiesta #hotairballoon #balloon #albuquerque #newmexico #skyscape #bluesky #eck #eastcoastkin

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Suzanne @suzannevtw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#UrbanGaze #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #Monochrome #ECK #Photography

Tall machine stand still in the water just passed a railing on a bridge.

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Machineryscape This is the Gold King Mine and Ghost Town in Jerome, AZ. #scape #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #ArtYear

A moody black-and-white photo of a dilapidated 1940s white pickup truck next to some old machinery in front of a hill with more machinery on it and an old building. The sun is shining on the left side, creating a misty look. There are desert plants and a few conifer trees on the hill.

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Halloween Lantern Parade, 2018 #hARToween26 #SpookyLantern #31daysofHalloween #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Baltimore

Glowing spirit lanterns on sticks towering above a crowd

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Alex Zafer - The Candid Flâneur 🇨🇦🍁 @alexzafer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~ Hunter S. Thompson #StreetPhotography #photography #monochrome #storytelling #urbangaze #urbanphotography #classicmono #BlackandWhitePhotography #Art #EastCoastKin

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 01/10/2026

This is your warning to mute/block the term #hARToween26 if you DON'T want to see all kinds of spooky & fun art starting tomorrow because I will try to repost some every day throughout the month But if you DON'T want to see all kinds of spooky and fun Art, why on earth are you following me? 😁

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OwlBeSeeingYou #hARToween26 #31DaysofHalloween #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Paris #StreetArt

Owl Graffiti 2019

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Patterson Park Halloween Parade participant, 2023 #31daysofhalloween #Gothtober #HumansofBluesky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Streetphotography #Baltimore

Spooky looking green-haired human, or ghost?

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ct1791.bsky.social @ct1791.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Baltimore Comic-Con.

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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#10minutesfromhome #WindowsOnWednesday Watching

A photo looking in a window of a posh shop in Manchester.
There is a mannequin stood inside looking out towards the city streets
The mannequin has a white featureless head and is wearing a dark jacket.
Reflected in the window are multiple tall buildings and people walking by

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 30/09/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #photography

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The single lens reflex camera is a classical and magical piece of industrial age machinery. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography #NewYorkCity #UrbanGaze

Giant camera in a holiday window display at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, December 2024

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Melinda B Hipple, author&artist @melindabhipple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As I topped the stairs in the #TateModern art museum in London, I turned to see what I thought was a work of art. And then the restaurant-goers on the other side of the frosted glass moved. #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #photography

A dark landing at the top of stairs with access to elevators. The far wall is floor to ceiling frosted glass. Behind the glass are two high-top tables with two people sitting at each one. Their dark figures are blurred and vague.

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Dave @visionsabound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Inspired to wonder. #photography #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBluesky #ECK #bnw #ClassicMono

A person stands looking up at an experimental structure, the Serpentine Pavilion, by Bjarke Ingles Group. Toronto, 2018.

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Oberursheena @twitterrefugerin.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

"Shanghai 2049" Not so much #PalacesandGardens but definitely #ItsAJungleOutThere #UrbanGaze #ECK #photography #sunset #OrangeSun

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fallen angel with a halo hula hoop #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography #Baltimore

Sign in a chiropractic studio

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I dream of Genie #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #EastCoastKin #WindowsonWednesday #PhotographersofBluesky

Window washers on blue crane

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=HLzZ... #DavidsMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 29 Songs with repeated word in title

OFF LIVE - Imelda May "Johnny got a Boom Boom"

YouTube video by OFF Productions

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Johnny’s got a boom-boom (apologies to Imelda May) #Alphabetchallenge #WeekMforMachinery #EastCoastKin #TagsonTuesday #PhotographersofBluesky #Barcelona

Graffiti on cannon overlooking Barcelona

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Half a Boxcar on the roof of a casino #Alphabetchallenge #WeekMforMachinery #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography #ClassicMono

6 cooling fans resembling halfway to double sixes

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Shawn @ftlshawn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Window With Vine, Rust And Flowers.

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They build and run the machinery we depend on #Alphabetchallenge #WeekMforMachinery #AllMetalMonday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky

Bronze engraving of the seal of the International Union of Operating Engineers, two workers operating some kind of machine

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Sofia Rozette @sofia-r.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #ClassicMono #BlackandWhite #Art

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=SNl1... #David’sMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 28 Song with boy, girl, man or woman in the title Great cover photo too

Cowgirl in the Sand (2009 Remaster)

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

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Bob Hitchcock 〓〓 @tamarphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Entirely shameless plug here for one of my shots in the new ao magazine. #ECK #Abstractia #geometric #ArtYear aofoto.art

aofoto.art - London - the photographic aesthetic of the ordinary

aofoto.art - ao stands for the aesthetic of the ordinary. It is a new not-for-profit initiative conceived by photographers Richard Mortimer, Bob Hitchcock and Colin Farmery who have been brought toget...

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Kafka @kafkaesque2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#LightAndShadow Downtown Houston's canyon of towering, textured behemoths changes colours in cool, cloudy light. The Beauty of #Skyscrapers, Exhibit No. 39. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #TextureTuesday #Architecture #UrbanGaze #StreetPhotography #Photography #ECK #Abstractia #Stunday

A low-angle, vertical colour photo captures a dramatic, canyon-like view of downtown Houston’s skyscrapers, emphasizing their contrasting architectural styles and the play of late afternoon light. Towering on the left, the Wells Fargo Plaza showcases a faceted, deep-amber glass facade that brilliantly reflects the warm, golden sun, while adjacent to it rises the sleek, cylindrical form of the Heritage Plaza (frequently recognized for its Mayan-inspired crown, though here emphasizing its smooth, green-tinted glass curtain wall). An enclosed pedestrian skybridge spans the street below, cutting a dark, diagonal, sharp geometric line across the lower third of the frame. The dramatic upward perspective forces the eye toward a moody, overcast sky, while the mirrored surfaces of the surrounding glass-and-steel monoliths create complex, layered reflections of light and shadow, casting a striking glow across the entire scene.

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Clockwork Mono #Alphabetchallenge #WeekMforMachinery #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #ClassicMono

A click that’s all gears

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just another Tequila Sunrise sunset #Stunday #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Abstractia #Scape #NewMexico

Purple and orange sunset

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JuliusChestnut @juliuschestnut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Art #ArtYear #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLookingIn #FramedWiev #InsideOutside #Abstractia #Geometric inside the geometry

Arnaldo Pomodoro
2026 exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia

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John Jarosz @thejohnjarosz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BlueSkyArtShow #lights #bicycles #photography #travelphotography #fujifilm Digital #neon

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Margi Baxter Wilburn @margiwilburn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BlueSkyArtShow #Lights

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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Can't let today's #BlueSkyArtShow go by without revisiting a sunset snap from last year and the lovely #Lights atop our local 'burger garage'; ex-car repair shop repurposed as a burger joint with amazing artwork inside and this magical neon on the roof. #Photography #ECK #NeverEnoughNeon

Colorful neon sign atop Greer's burger garage. Colored glowing letters in red, blue and yellow amidst white trimmed rectangles and diamonds, topped with a yellow star; all set above a metal roof and dark red hues of the day's end

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Katherine Mancuso @katherinemancuso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Lights hanging in a hotel atrium look like paper lanterns floating up into the sky. 🏮🩵🩷💚💛 #BlueSkyArtShow

Lights in the grand lobby of Many Glacier Hotel, Montana
The texture looks like paper but it's resin and they are made to look like traditional Japanese lanterns.

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dry rainbow in the desert #BlueskyArtShow #Lights #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #NewMexico #LandofEnchantment

Rainbow in high clouds over the high desert

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#31DaysOfHalloween #Stunday #photography

A small brown rat climbs over a black wrought iron fence.

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Prisonscape Eastern State Penitentiary shot on iPhone 6 #Spooktober #dungeon #scape #31DaysOfHalloween #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #ArtYear #MobilePhotography

A dramatic black and white photo of a crumbling hallway in an abandoned prison with vaulted ceilings. There's a metal gate in front.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My 1969 Penguin edition of 'Conjure Wife', Fritz Leiber's highly original novel about the wives of academics at a university using #witchcraft to further their husbands' careers. First published in 1953. #31DaysOfHalloween #BookChatWeekly #penguinbooks #vintagepaperbacks #Penguin

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Look inside Rod Serling’s head #Alphabetchallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #EastCoastKin #Booksky #VintagePaperbacks #Sci-Fi #TheTwilightZone

Cover of New Stories from the Twilight Zone featuring an image of author Rod Serling’s head cracking open and spilling a weird load of red light

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ghosts in the machines #BlueskyArtShow #Lights #Blur #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography

Color enhanced blurred image of streetlights in the shadow of the gloaming

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What you looking at? #Alphabetchallenge #WeeklforLookingIn #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography

Close up of impudent grey squirrel

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Suzanne @suzannevtw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OpenStaircase #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #Lisbon #ECK #Photography #Abstractia #Geometric #AOFoto

Looking up into an open stairway to the stained glass ceiling.

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Jenny @jenneke1961.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn and looking out with a little smile.

A close-up side view of a red and dark grey R-NET train carriage. The red doors display white accessibility and bicycle icons, while passengers are visible through the window. The wall in the background features large circular cutouts, two of which are backlit with neon purple lighting.
Gouda CS

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ready to beam up #Alphabetchallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky

Looking into elevator lobby, woman silhouetted

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Alex Zafer - The Candid Flâneur 🇨🇦🍁 @alexzafer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are, than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise." Henry David Thoreau #StreetPhotography #photography #monochrome #storytelling #urbangaze #urbanphotography #BlackandWhitePhotography #Art

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kxs @kxswanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#ECK #BlueSkyPhotography #PhotographersofBlueSky #Alphabetchallenge #UrbanGaze #WeekLforLookingIn #window #windowsOnWednesday#streetphotography #Boston #citylife #night

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Karenlee Kitto @karenleekitto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#photography #HumansOfBlueSky #cityscape #UrbanGaze #portrait #analog #filmphotography #doubleexposure #abstract #PotD

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking in between columns of the nave of La Sagrada Família #Alphabetchallenge #LookingIn #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #Photography #Architecture #Gaudí #Barcelona

Colorful detail of the upper part of the nave

Charles Rutheiser @charlesrutheiser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The grid can’t contain chaos #Abstractia #ArtYear #RedWed #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky

A riot of color and form that mocks the efforts of an orthogonal grid to bound it

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Inside a flying boat at the RAF Museum in London. #Abstractia #Geometric #ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #DailyArt

Inside a Short Sunderland MR5 flying boat at the RAF Museum in London. The long-range reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrol planes large numbers of machine guns led the Luftwaffe to nickname them "The Flying Porcupines"
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.