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Michael Larkin

@cloudmaker.bsky.social
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Australian landscape photographer. I aspire to tell stories with mood, texture, shape and light. www.cloudmaker.com

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sun dogs #drawing #joncarling #ink #art #sundogs
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
fox ride
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 13/07/2026
This is Cookie. She's a big proponent of reusable shopping bags. Partly for the environment, but mostly for naps. 12/10 (TT: all.themunchies)
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 16/06/2026
This is Bagel. He has traveled far and wide, experienced many different cultures, seen all kinds of sights, and most importantly, figured out his best angles. 13/10 (IG: livingwithbagel)
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Field of Flowers - Gustav Klimt
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow ... from the archive (you can still see the film grain) #soft #clouds at #dusk in the #BlueMountains #NSW with the Belt of Venus clearly visible. #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #australia #sunset
A narrow line of clouds is set against a sky shading from blue, through lavender, lilac and salmon to pale pink. The pink band is an atmospheric phenomenon known as the Belt of Venus.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 29/04/2026
This is Cooper. He tried to politely decline the blowout, but apparently it's a nonnegotiable part of his spa package. 13/10 (IG: biscuitsandbathnyc)
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Really like this ... creative, mysterious, evocative ...
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow The sharp #edge of a ridge in the Southern Alps, #NewZealand #photography #landscapephotography #mountains #naturephotography
An aerial view of a sharp edge mountain ridge, curving up to a peak, with an ice-filled cirque to the right of the ridge and a steep sided rock face to the left. The ridge has a covering of snow, but the black rock shows through where it is too steep for the snow to accumulate. In the background are other peaks of New Zealand's Southern Alps.
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Hidden Shades
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fluxxxxx @fluxxxxx.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My first A3 format painting :) The first one that worked out. It is much harder to work on larger formats. #art #bskyart #painting #watercolor #SciArt #mountains #mist
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th). flic.kr/p/2s5Z9yc
Crescent view of Earth.

NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Autumn's past
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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Blossoming South Moravia
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
good news the dogs are still good
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 09/03/2026
This is Stevie. He's on squirrel watch. His stuffed friend is also a squirrel, but he's one of the good ones. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)
a tan long-haired dachshund with incredibly floofy ears sits with his front paws on a window sill and his nose pressed up against the window. he's accompanied by his stuffed squirrel friend. their reflections stares back at them. Stevie the dachshund does not see the irony in watching for squirrels with his squirrel friend. he's too busy being locked in on the happenings outside his window.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 18/02/2026
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow #wood #Trees near #Mutitjulu, providing a sense of the imposing scale of #Uluru in the background #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #Australia #NorthernTerritory
A line of bare, dead trees, stand in a straw yellow field of grass with smaller myrtle green eucalypts and acacias scattered in the background. Uluru provides a vast backdrop of rust-red stone, like the flanks of an enormous beast.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 08/02/2026
 “The difference between a good photographer and a bad photographer has nothing to do with whether one makes better images. A bad photographer is the know-it-all person who judges the work of another photographer as being insignificant, always compares his or her work against the work of others, and who seeks to create divisions in an art form that has always been democratic and ecumenical. A good photographer, though, is the person who takes pleasure in his or her work, as well as the work of others, and who doesn’t see the art of making photographs as a competition but as a personal pursuit instead, regardless of whether they make fantastic images or not. Sadly, there are a lot of bad photographers out there making beautiful images.”
— Edward Weston
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
#BlueSkyArtShow #cold A closeup of a #blue #iceberg in #Antarctica. I like the scalloped patterns that remind me of scales and the light dusting of snow, like icing sugar, along the edge of the ridges in the #ice. #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #closeup #intimatelandscape
A vertical format closeup image made in Antarctica of an iceberg, with ridges running diagonally from bottom left to top right. The ice is scalloped, like scales, and is a turquoise blue colour. There is a light dusting of snow, like icing sugar, along the edge of the ridges in the ice.
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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 21/01/2026
Dear 24hr News Cycle, Please sleep through your alarm, lie in, and leave us alone, at least for one day. Regards, Humans, just about hanging on.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anais Nin
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 31/12/2025
The Dogs of 2025 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...
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The Dogs of 2025
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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Tarbet Isle, Loch Lomond #Scotland #LochLomond #Trossachs www.damianshields.com
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings Our first #goldenretriever, the magnificent, mischievous, talkative, playful, independent minded, loving and loyal Mr Pickles #dogs #photography
A black and white image of a six month old golden retriever, lying on the grass but looking up at my wife (out of frame) with love and mischief all over his face
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12/12/2025
Javier, our new CEO, wanted to thank everyone for a fun and motivating first week. You all have made his transition process enjoyable. He has much to do but insisted on relaying that his initial numbers indicate that the dogs are all very good and will likely continue to be ❤️
Javier, a black wire haired terrier mix and the CEO of WeRateDogs, wears a tan suit and brown polka dot tie. he stands close to the camera, his snoot looking very boopable.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/11/2025
sleep well darth we will keep your spot warm for you
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #happyfeet ... Adelie #penguins might be #small in size but they're big on personality #photography #nature #naturephotography #antarctica #wildlife
An Adelie penguin stands alone on an iceberg, his flippers out and his head turned to the side as though he's been caught in the middle of a dance move. It's a crystal clear, sunny day, the sky in the background is cloudless blue and there is a hint of turquoise in the iceberg.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Mikhail Germachev “Fall Landscape” (1920).
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The artist is John Waterhouse born in 1967, oil painter. This work "Breathing space"
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Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Well, hello!
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #evening Now in the west the colours change, the blue with crimson blending; Behind the far Dividing Range, the sun is fast descending. - Henry Lawson #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #sunset #bluemountains #sydney #nsw #australia
Ridges layered in dark blue silhouette as the sun has dipped below the horizon. The last of the light illuminates high, wispy clouds in pink, salmon and orange.
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The flower gem
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
tomato mouse
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Gareth Mon Photography @garethmon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Fairy light A favorite image of mine from Ffos Noddun / Fairy Glen in Eryri, North Wales Capturing the light rays is such a pleasure to witness
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of ocean shores; I change, but I cannot die." ― Percy Bysshe Shelly, The Cloud Art by Rachael Mia Allen
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Sally Mason @sallymason.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Cherry blossom - spring has arrived.
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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Peaks of the Dolomites shrouded in clouds.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more Lord Byron Painting: solitude by David Lorenz
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
when u walk confidently into the interview room and then see who the interviewer is
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 27/10/2025
My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)
ahh! a small fluffy ghost sits on a hardwood floor staring directly at us. but actually... the longer we take it in, the more cute the ghost becomes. one could even mistake this little guy for a golden retriever puppy wearing a sheet with eye, ear, and mouth holes cut out of it. even though he gave us a fright, we would still pet this ghost puppy.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Inge Schuster A Man and his Dog
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22/10/2025
This is Poet. He would have really crushed it as a barista in the early to mid-2010s. Born in the wrong decade smh. 12/10
a light blond golden retriever puppy wearing an olive green beanie sits on a picnic table in a park. the trees in the background are green and orange with fall foliage. his floppy green beanie is pulled down on his noggin, pressing a line of his fluffy forehead fur forward, and gluing his ears to the sides of his face. he looks ever so slightly downcast that no one understands him. photo credit wat.ki on instagram
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Walking With Izzy. Ben Young
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Michael Larkin @cloudmaker.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical ... one from the archive ... a #waterfall in a very steep sided valley in the #BlueMountains #NationalPark in #NSW. It was quite late in the day and I was using ISO25 Kodachrome, hence the long exposure ... #photography #landscapephotography #landscape #nature #australia
A waterfall cascades over several rock platforms from the upper left of the image to the bottom right. It is late in the day, so the shadows are deep and the water has blurred like angel hair due to the long exposure. The rock faces are covered in moss and the steep sided gully is filled with ferns and glistening dark emerald vegetation
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Across Buttermere
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2025
Lake Kawaguchi and Mt. Fuji Koitsu Tsuchiya
water colour of a landscape, with a large snow capped mountain, a clump of trees on an island in a lake, and on that lake a boat
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Damian Ward @damianward.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I really liked how this pine tree looked like it was reaching for the light. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite
A black and white image of a pine tree with long branches that look like they are reaching out towards the light. 

© Damian Ward 2025.
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