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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Eye of Anaklia," a 40-meter-tall, futuristic abandoned observation tower located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. IG: @abandoned.berlin www.instagram.com/abandoned.be...
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great demonstration of the Tyndall effect in a wooded area by the scattering of beams of light by finely suspended particles of fog in the air: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sylvia Hotel
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
From Renault factories to contemporary art center, the story of Paris's 'cursed' Seguin Island
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From Renault factories to contemporary art center, the story of Paris's 'cursed' Seguin Island
On October 17, Le Large will open its doors. A small miracle given the many projects that have fallen through after Renault left the island, just west of Paris, in 1992. But the story is not over: the center of the island remains conspicuously empty.
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Linda @lindavisserphoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An architectural daydream, sculpted in stone and swirling with Gaudí’s imagination #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #photography #barcelonavibes #architecture #gaudi #lapedreracasamila
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Art Nouveau jewllery designed by Glasgow School artist and Frances Macdonald (1873 –1921) #WomensArt
Four photos of brooches created in silver and enamel in an Art Nouveau style
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying the oceans ? Killing whales? Warming and polluting oceans? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Glass, Like Glass. Sunday's sunrise at the entrance to the Chicago River.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Michael Beggs papa_beggs "Ocean song….first light Bay of Fires…." Tasmania Australia
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.
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Brad Holkesvig @bradjholk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I photographed this narrow and very interesting looking door today. I love all these custom built doors in Barcelona. #doors #streetphotography #barcelona #craftsmenship
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David English @davidenglish.com · 25/09/2026
By the Oculus in lower Manhattan #photography #streetphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #leica #manhattan #nyc #newyork #architecture
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Katherine Mancuso @katherinemancuso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A wedge of #bluesky and a stair #scape 💙
Looking up an exterior set of wooden stairs to see a wedge of sunny blue sky
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pedestrianized 35th reaches its final, lush form
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Eliot Lovell Photo @eliotlovell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
– urban – lines – 😊 #berlin #photography #urbanphotography #blackandwhitephotography #blueskyphotography #fujifilm
Black and white photo looking from a passageway to a fires tation opposite
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On day in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first National Monument in the United States!
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Greenhouse from recycled church stained glass windows, also known as "Sacré Blur" was made by horticultural installation artists Heywood and Condie from salvaged 18th and 19th century ecclesiastical stained glass. London
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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aga mobil type 4346. Sweden, 1963. From thevaultoftheatomicspaceage blog via tumblr.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
these old Chinese garden windows
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Kadir @candidframe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tunnel ! #London #photography #art #photo #architecture #candidphoto #streetshot #candid #streetphotographer #streetphotography #Street
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This tiny fix solves a problem you never realized you had, and once you see it, it makes perfect sense.
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The Zen of True Art @thezenoftrueart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Toshi Yoshida, "Hakone Sacred Grounds," woodblock print, 1954. #art #arte #yoshida #japan #japaneseart #printart #printmaking #woodblockprint #japanesewoodblockprint #autumn #autumnleaves #fallleaves #museum #artgallery
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
these Art Nouveau doors by Ernest Delune in Brussels, Belgium, from the 1900s.
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Charles Muccia @badartbeatnik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Transamerica Building, San Francisco #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #architecture #sanfrancisco
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samphire-hoe.bsky.social @samphire-hoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#regentbridge #edinburgh #waterlooplace #caltonroad #archiboldelliot 1819
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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
East Berlin, Stadtmitte U-Bahn, Mohrenstrasse, 31 July 1960. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing.). #Berlin #DDR #GDR
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Sean Bond Painting Light @iamseanbond.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#UrbanGaze #Cityscape #Architectural #Infrared #Photography #paintinglight #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
Infrared Urban Architectural Cityscape photography, Norfolk Virginia
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Niko J @nikojln2016.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A section of the floral display at 11 Cadogan Gardens for Chelsea In Bloom 2026. 🌱🌸💮🏵🌼 📍Chelsea, London SW3
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matilda jay @wavesounds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
minolta repo-s/yellow filter/ilford fp4+/ilfosol 3 #filmphotography #architecture #wwhfpd
area under first floor of national theatre. reflective windows to right, wide concrete slabs to left acting as columns. in distance people can be seen on the south bank
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The west window at ES Prior's St Andrew, Roker, Sunderland, 1907 for #TraceryTuesday. 'One of the architecturally most interesting and successful churches of its date in England' thought Pevsner.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just saw this commercial on SNF, and I aint gon lie, it had my full attention. Wasnt expecting that
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The University of Washington’s “ivy building” showing its in-between season, the push-pull from summer’s green to autumn’s crimson. Beautiful. 🍃🍂🏫
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hosen-in Temple, Ohara, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Japan
Framed by the dark, rectangular timber posts and lintels of a temple hall, a snow-dusted garden panorama unfolds from the quiet interior of a tatami room. In the immediate foreground, a brilliant crimson felt carpet (mōsen) spans the floorboards, its vivid warmth cutting through the cool, monochromatic winter light outside. Through the triple-pane opening of the sliding frames, the massive, lichen-encrusted limbs of a monumental five-needle pine (Goyō-no-matsu) reach horizontally across the space, their heavy boughs dusted in fresh snow and supported by slender bamboo pillars. In the soft, muted background, snow-draped bamboo groves and a patinated stone lantern (ishidōrō) complete the serene winter scene.

Nestled in the quiet northern valley of Ōhara in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Hōsen-in is an ancient Tendai sect temple historically affiliated with nearby Sanzen-in and the preservation of shōmyō (Buddhist liturgical chanting). The temple’s main shoin (drawing hall) is celebrated for codifying the concept of gakubuchi teien—the "picture-frame garden"—wherein architectural pillars, thresholds, and lintels intentionally frame the exterior courtyard as if it were an active, living hanging scroll (kakejiku). At the heart of this view stands the famous 700-year-old Goyō-no-matsu, trained over centuries of horticultural mastery to evoke the fluid form of a soaring dragon, offering visitors seated on the red mōsen a quiet sanctuary for seasonal contemplation.

Aesthetically, the composition presents a definitive realization of gakubuchi teien combined with miegakure (the design principle of hide-and-reveal), using structural architecture to pare away the surrounding world and direct focus toward the natural landscape. The low wooden sill and surrounding posts form a distinct kekkai (sacred threshold), separating the warm, meditative interior from the frosty exterior.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Belgium built a bike path that sinks below a lake's surface, so cyclists ride with water right at eye level, like crossing without getting wet.
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Beth Berlo @bberlo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#Photography #BNW #black_and_White #monochrome #architecture #urban #Street #EastCoastKin #Cambridge #Massachusetts
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rare occurrence of heavy rains over Uluru (Ayer's Rock), the sacred sandstone monolith of the Australian desert: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@vira_plants shows us the natural color of the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta): #AGoodPlace
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Monschau is a picturesque medieval resort town in the Eifel region of western Germany, 🇩🇪 famous for its preserved half-timbered houses, winding cobblestone streets, and location along the Rur River
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Brad Holkesvig @bradjholk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is one of my best shadow shots. #shadows #photography
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Temple of Khnum in Esna Egypt 🇪🇬 sits nine meters below modern street level and is celebrated for its breathtakingly preserved hypostyle hall, vibrant recent color restorations, and intimate, awe-inspiring atmosphere
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Multnomah Falls, Oregon
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That Photo Guy @thatphotoguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This old tree fascinates me, it’s in Glenmore near Aviemore in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. A place I need to return to very soon.
An old tree near Aviemore.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Shinto priest at the torii (gate) of Itsukushima Shrine at low tide on Itsukushima Island, Japan, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
a Shinto priest (kannushi) standing in quiet contemplation before the monumental grand gate (ō-torii) of Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island. Framed from behind, the solitary priest—clad in a traditional white upper garment (byakue) and pleated hakama trousers—is visually dwarfed by the colossal scale of the sacred structure. Positioned on the exposed, wet sand during low tide (hikishio), he gazes past the massive wooden pillars toward the distant, hazy mountain ridge across the Seto Inland Sea. The dramatic low-angle perspective emphasizes the soaring curvature of the gate's top lintel (kasagi), establishing an arresting visual dialogue between human devotion, monumental timber architecture, and the natural landscape.

Architecturally, the grand gate of Itsukushima represents a masterwork of ryōbu (four-legged) torii design, characterized by main upright pillars reinforced by four subsidiary legs (chigo-bashira) for structural stability against severe coastal tides and sea winds. Constructed from centuries-old, natural camphor trunks (kusunoki), the base of the gate reveals thick encrustations of barnacles and water marks, marking the high-water line where the structure ordinarily appears to float magically atop the ocean surface. Historically, Miyajima was revered as a sacred island (shintai-zan) so pure that the entire shrine complex was built over the intertidal zone to avoid disturbing the holy soil. The ō-torii thus functions as a monumental ketsukai—a sacred boundary separating the profane physical world from the divine domain of the island's three tutelary sea goddesses (Munakata Sanjoshin).

Taken during the mid-1950s—a decade defined by Japan’s quiet postwar reflection and cultural renewal—the photograph captures an enduring moment of spiritual continuity.
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mitchseaver.bsky.social @mitchseaver.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Man on Hill - San Francisco #photography #travel #urban #ClassicMono #UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #monochrome #blackandwhite #street #streetphotography #streetphoto #California#SanFrancisco #streetphotographers #bnw #architecture
San Francisco's cable cars have been climbing the city's steep hills since 1873.
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Matt Johnson @matthewjohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You don't realize the power of water until you watch it casually roll a boulder the size of a house down a valley in Nepal.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Palacio de Cristal (Crystal Palace) in El Retiro Park, Madrid, filled with a colorful light installation.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Art Deco Finland: The Helsinki Central Railway Station, built 1919.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
City by Yehan Wang
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