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My #3rdPlace is my local museum. I can go there in any season, enjoy the gardens outside or the galleries inside, see something beautiful or learn something new, with friends or alone. My perfect place. Click on the picture for the full upstairs/downstairs view. #BlueSkyArtShow

A stairway inside the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The view shows two levels. Above the stairs is an arch, with another arch behind it. This arch is supported by columns that frame bronze statue, looking like a classical fine arts museum. The bottom half of the photo shows people sitting on a bench or walking at the foot of the stairs. Beyond the people, open doorways show a glimpse of blue light and a more modern structure beyond.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Zealand bellbirds 17-20cm across New Zealand and its surrounding offshore island Diet: brush-tipped tongue to gather nectar, insects, berries Female builds nest high in trees, incubates 15 days, male provides food, both parents feed chicks 12 days in the nest and 3 more weeks after fledging

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Oske. @oske.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Drinks and Laughs I sat outside a pub, amused at the outrageous conversation of those sat nearby. #HumansOfBlueSky #Street #StreetPhotography #People #laughter #BlackandWhite #Photography #Southampton #StreetScene #ClassicMono #Candid #Eck #EastCoastKin

Two women outside a pub, drinking and laughing..

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Imaybehappy @jrmacd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not-quite-full Moon. #photography

A moon that appears for all intents to be a full moon is actually only A 95% illuminated waning gibbous moon appears in the blue morning sky along with some tattered white clouds.

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Carl Prothman | Landscape Photographer @carlprothman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While hiking above Paradise, I stopped for this view across the Tatoosh Range toward Mount Adams. I used a longer lens because I liked how it compressed the different mountain ridges together. The softer light and haze helped separate each layer as they faded into the distance.

Jagged peaks and rocky ridges of the Tatoosh Range fill the foreground beneath a layered cloudy sky. Successive mountain ridges fade into the distance toward snow-covered Mount Adams on the right. Soft golden light breaks through the clouds. The scene feels expansive and atmospheric.

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Nature’s Eye🌱 @see3trees.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s a Northern Flicker in flight against an overcast day for today’s #birdoftheday #EFG theme . I was surprised how well this turned out— I must have used ideal settings.

A flicker in flight with bright yellow underwings and tail with black tip. The body is tan with black dots and its head is reddish tan with black neckline.

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

'Resting Stones, Falling Leaves' (2026) -- Common Ground Cemetery, Harpswell Center, ME #RockinTuesday ✨ #UrbanGaze ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BWFri ✨ #Stunday ✨ #PaintByWords ✨ #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

A very old stone wall frames the lower half of an image taken under a large branch of a maple tree slowly turning yellows and reds, it's leaves falling into a two century year old cemetery with pale headstones so old they can sometimes no longer be read...

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 27/09/2026

After a week away for our anniversary trip I was able to get out to my local gardens this morning for a quiet photo walk. Weather was perfect, there are still lots of butterflies around here, and I'm happy to be back home with Dozer. 🦋🐶😍 #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #Photography #Butterflies

A bright orange monarch butterfly stands on the tip of a branch covered with green leaves. Another branch arches around it from the bottom right to the upper right then over to the upper left and two small out of focus red berries hang in the background just above the butterfly. Rest of the scene is various shades of green.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” ― John Muir

A dirt road curves throught the wetlands with a single tree on the right. There are grasses along the left side of the road with water next to it.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So this photo contains zero birds, but in my defence, we were sitting outside waiting for birds. But the sun was almost setting and the backlit Snapdragons stole the show!

A backlit snapdragon flower that is partially opened. The background is dark green with a round sun like highlight in the top right corner. It’s actually an out of focus highlight that appears large because it’s a telephoto lens. The pink snapdragon flower is rim lit but has some light bouncing back to light the flower.
For those interested, the lens is a 400mm and required 5 frames focused on slightly different parts of the flower to be stacked together so the entire flower was sharp .

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charlie @lonelyeyecharlie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

chinese lantern festival, pt. i franklin sq, philly august '26 📷: nikon fe 🎞️: kodak kodak ektapan p3200 #philadelphia #filmphotography #photography #eastcoastkin #classicmono #lanternfestival

black and white photo of a tunnel made of illuminated chinese paper lanterns; the photo was taken after sundown

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Lee @my-liquid-head.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The gnarled trunk of an old field maple #tree with hawthorns and a crab apple tree in the distance. #ThickTrunkTuesday #ClassicMono #photography #monochrome

A black and white photo of an old tree with gnarled bark and roots, with more trees in the background.

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Borsotti @borsotti.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Spiral Focus@Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Not my first staircase - but this one definitely caught me off guard. - As Lucien would say: „Architecture loves a good spiral.“ #architecturephotography #monochrome #minimalism #photography #frankfurt

A monochrome view looks down into a spiral staircase, where the curved white inner wall wraps around a small circular light at the centre. Dark steps and shadowed edges create a strong contrast, with the composition reduced to smooth arcs, geometry, and negative space.

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 30/08/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay from Atlantic Birding is #Parenting. Here's a family of sandhill cranes I saw out for a stroll at the wetlands. #Stunday #Photography #Birds #SandhillCranes

An adult and two juvenile sandhill cranes stand in a row, with necks and heads overlapping. The sun shines on them from the left and behind is a bright green meadow.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾 @alinagrafik.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

#ColorADay #BlueTue Blue house in Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco, built in 1923 by Jacques Majorelle. It was later owned by Yves Saint-Laurent, and is now a museum. #ECK #Architecture #MajorelleGarden #Marrakech #Morocco #Art #CobaltBlue

A tight crop of a cobalt blue house with a horizontal gold-ish orange window grate, a tall, narrow door that is mint green and pale mustard. There is a potted plant in a pale yellow pot. A low mint green colored bannister is around a front patio.

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Merisi Vienna @merisi-vienna.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Also captured yesterday in the courtyard, light pink Geranium flower with a tinge of apricot. #EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BloomScrolling #Flowers

A light pink Geranium flower, with deeper colored center that has an orange tinge.

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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 14/08/2026

Took the kayak out for a little early morning fishing, ended up taking a lot of photos and catching absolutely zero fish. Worth it! 😀 #Scape #Photography #Sunrise #Fishing

The sun rises over a calm lake with a bit of mist rising off of it. On both sides of the horizon large groups of trees bracket the sun which rises over another treeline in the distance. In the foreground the tip of a kayak and fishing pole can be seen.

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enepe @enepe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Confetti d'un chaland fleuri

gros plan de l'intérieur d'une barque remplie d'eau stagnante sombre. À gauche, le banc en bois vieilli de l'embarcation occupe le premier plan, ses veines et son grain bien visibles. En haut de l'image, le bord de la barque forme une ligne horizontale. Sur l'eau noire qui remplit le fond du bateau flotte une unique fleur orange vif aux pétales frisés, sa tige verte pointant vers le haut — seule tache de couleur dans cette composition presque monochrome.

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Miguilim irmão do Dito 🇧🇷 🦜🐦‍⬛🦉🌵🌿 @josegalo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gosto muito de estrada de terra. Gavião-pinhé (Milvago chimachima) 📍 Santana do Riacho, MG – Brasil 🏞️ Cordilheira do Espinhaço 📅 08/2026 #birdsoftheworld

Fotografia em close do rosto de um gavião. A ave possui plumagem branca, bico cinza e a área ao redor dos olhos em um tom de laranja escuro, com uma faixa preta que lembra uma máscara. O fundo da imagem é verde e desfocado

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Cathy N @cnaliv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The top of the Château de Chambord, France, is the most bizarre roof I’ve ever visited. François I made a turret city up there. None of my pictures from that day really convey the over-the-topness, but here is a corner, and view of the whole edifice #PalacesAndGardens #PalaceTops

Small turrets and towers, rounded and squared, rise from various slate gray pitched roofs on top of the largest chateau in France, created by Francis 1st in the 16th century. Its purpose was as an elaborate hunting lodge (and to show off the wealth and power of French royalty, of course). It’s a gray day, and the sky is mostly featureless. A few people are visible, dwarfed by the structure.

View of the largest, and one of the most famous, chateaux in France. It was built in the 16th century. The limestone building has a gray roof with a profusion of little turrets on top.

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Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #ColorADay #BlueTue #ECK Got the right word for the challenge today! Go me Movement, light and colour briefly coming into perfect alignment 😁🐝

A fuzzy bumblebee hangs suspended in flight beside a cluster of soft violet agapanthus blooms, its tiny body rendered in crisp detail while its translucent wings remain a blur of motion against an expansive blue summer sky. The shallow depth of field melts the distant garden into gentle bokeh, preserving an ephemeral moment where movement, light and colour briefly come into perfect alignment before the bee vanishes into the next flower.

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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekEForEphemeral Ephemeral light at Manchester Art Gallery

A photo taken a couple of years ago at Manchester Art Gallery just as I'd sat down with my coffee. I looked up and a beam of sunlight was shining through a tall shuttered window into the cafe.
Underneath the sash window was a round wooden table and a couple of chairs. On top of the table was a box full of cutlery and a table number.
Sunlight was shining onto the top of the table with the rest of the room in shadow

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"We need to respect and take care of each other and our Earth, for we are all one, we are all related." — Julia Bogany “How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss💫🧡🌙

Several trees surrounded by grass with hills in the background. Photo taken at a wildlife refuge.

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Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Storm Break, Fence Line Storm let go just enough for the light to get through — same rays hitting the ridge and the fence-line grass at my feet, three miles apart. #EastCoastKin #Photography #ClassicMono #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

Black and white landscape photograph of a wide agricultural valley beneath a heavily clouded storm sky. Dense, dark cloud cover fills the upper third of the frame, breaking into a wide gap of brighter, more textured cloud through which several distinct shafts of sunlight descend at a diagonal, fanning out toward the valley floor and mountains below. A layered mountain ridge runs across the middle of the frame, its slopes softened by falling rain visible as a hazy gray curtain beneath the clouds. Below the ridge, a patchwork of irrigated fields, scattered trees, and small structures marks the valley floor, with visible spray lines from active irrigation equipment. The foreground is an open pasture bounded by a barbed-wire fence, with tall grass in the lower third of the frame lit from behind by the same low sun producing the light shafts above, its seed heads and stalks rendered as fine bright texture against the darker field behind it.

The photograph builds its structure through layered contrast rather than a single focal point: dense black sky at top, luminous cloud break and light shafts as the visual peak, a mid-toned mountain-and-valley band, and a darker foreground grounded by the fence line and backlit grass. The crepuscular rays function as a compositional bridge, visually connecting the distant storm to the foreground grass, which catches the same quality of light at a completely different scale and distance — a deliberate echo between background and foreground that gives the image a sense of unified, continuous light across a large space rather than a single isolated sky event. The result reads as documentary landscape work with a formal, deliberate tonal structure rather than a snapshot of dramatic weather.

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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

'Transcendental Skies' (2025) -- Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #Scape ✨ #BWFri ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Big ✨ #Stunday ✨ #UrbanGaze ✨ #Architecture ✨ #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #ECK #EastCoastKin

giant domes sat above the gallery floors, their interior surfaces highly ornate and resplendent in hypnotically mesmerizing designs: hues of pink, blue, yellow and orange... beads, tiles, curved lines, holy shapes... elegant balance and perfection

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Cathy N @cnaliv.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Nightfall at the Streetcar Stop Kansas City, Missouri #Scape #ECK #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark

A lit rectangle and lights leading up to a raised platform highlight the covered streetcar stop. Behind the stop, you see public art in the form of metal bars on poles pointing in random directions. Beyond that, lights shine from windows under a cloudy, darkening sky.

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Martin Schuh 𝑓/64 @schuhf64.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

schuhf64.blogspot.com/2026/07/stre... „You woke up this morning Got yourself a gun, Mama always said you'd be The Chosen One.“ #Alabama3 #TonySoprano #TheSopranos #Tuscany #ECK #Scape #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBluesky #Photography #landscapephotography

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https://schuhf64.blogspot.com

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