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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 18h

The hour before the gloaming. Beacon Hill, South Downs National Park. #photography #art #classicmono

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Abandoned on the high plain 1 Copehill Down Training Ranges, Wiltshire UK #Scape #Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dawn behind the hedge, chasing the fog. South Downs National Park, Hampshire UK #Art #Photography #ClassicMono

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Further to that, are there any artists using smartphone #photography to make fine #art?

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can anyone point me to a good book or article/s about using Phones to make photographic ‘art’. Fine Art #photography, not how to use tips and hacks, and not generating or editing pics, but discussions about making art with your phone. Is a Leica more legit than a Samsung?

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the change in season, four seasons. One Oak Tree Hill, Four Ways (2025/26). South Downs National Park, Hampshire UK. #Scape #ClassicMono #Photography #EastCoastKin www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/triptychs

A polyptych of four black and white photos, arranged two over two, of identical compositions of the same wind-stunted Oak tree on the top of a south downs hill, in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The tree stands next to a road that leads the eye to the horizon and into the cloudscapes beyond.

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Walking To The Oak, And Back. (A line East & West, between two hills). I've started a new, #slowart work that will continue to grow until it's time to stop. As usual, it's in my online gallery. #Art #ClassicMono #BlueSkyArtShow www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/the-walk

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just finished this brilliant novel by Caleb Klaces. It's one of the most original, compelling and beautifully unusual father & son stories I've ever read. Highly recommend. @prototypepubs.bsky.social

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you don't already know it, you need Scott Lavene's music in your life, and you really need to see him live. Last night's show at the Wedgewood Rooms in Pompey was equal parts hilarious, magical, and heart-wrenching. @scottlavene.bsky.social scottlavene.bandcamp.com/album/cars-b...

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Steve Morgan @stevemorgan68.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If there is any justice, 2027 will be the year of Scott Lavene. Lyrically and sonically - and live - he’s here to make you glad you are too. Catch him on tour from mid-September.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 17/09/2026

Dun Arn, 2021 #otd

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This Is Not Your Home #BirdOfTheDay #ClassicMono www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/i-am-where-i...

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A more enjoyable scroll than Instagram? Looking Eastwards (2019-Present ) My ongoing documentary landscape artwork is now 1000+ photos of the same view. Never the same twice. #Art #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/looking-east...

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Boss is on fire with righteous fury and is not pulling any punches. This how you start a rock and roll show. youtu.be/Ph7SZcdIK0E?...

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour (Philadelph...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#Photography Friends, I need recommendations for a European and green alternative to Squarespace for my photo gallery (and soon) ecom website. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. PS no AI / vibe code please, thank you.

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1982 A friend at school had the first Sony Walkman I'd ever seen and let me try it by putting on an album I'd never heard that starts with demonic bell tolling.... Hells Bells. Back In Black with headphones sledge-hammered my young mind. I've never recovered, happily.

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Untitled. But loaded with metaphor. August 2026. Bracklesham, West Sussex. #Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lemon Yellow Hill Watching Chair. South Downs National Park UK. #Photography #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

South & West Sundown, Like A Sky Match. West Wittering, West Sussex, UK. #Photography #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My social media is totally overrun with Dolly, and I am watching and reading all of it. Never mind the music... What a human. youtu.be/e2qvHyFVm20?...

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Dolly Parton - Southern Accents

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bracklesham Sundown Sitting Situation. West Sussex, UK. #photography #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Heather Horton @heatherhorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“People talk about us being in the darkness. Yes, we are the mole people. We live in the darkness. But it’s the light that we love.”~Jeanine Basinger As a painter, I’m always looking for the light or at it, and if I can’t find it, I create it. “David’s Studio,Sunset”, oil, 36”x48”, priv coll.

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

One Oak Tree Hill, Four Ways. South Downs National Park, Hampshire UK. #photography #eastcoastkin #scape #classicmono

A collage of four, equal sized black and white photos. All are of the same solo oak tree, shot from the same viewpoint, and although one has a flat foggy winter sky behind it, the other three all have dynamic skies of clouds lit by the setting sun.

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Need cooling? Here, try these pictures from December 2010 that I rediscovered this morning. Remember Hipstamatic? #photography #classicmono www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/timstagram/2...

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Southampton Water In The Snow — Tim LeRoy

From 2010.

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Firefighters, farmers and NHS staff were all facing challenges connected to the weather” A: It’s called the climate crisis B: To protect the ocean that regulates our climate and weather we need to end all new oil and gas RIGHT NOW. Take action: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Wildfires as a background to news headline stating that a Cobra meeting was called over extreme heat

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hello #photgraphy friends, what platform (other than Squarespace) are people using for their own websites?

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"What I’m questioning is the assumption that because technology is useful somewhere, it needs to be present everywhere." It's good to read a thoughtful and sensible reflection that's not all absolutism and retrophillia, so thanks Karl Mackie, me too. karlmackie.substack.com/p/craving-an...

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Craving an Analogue Life

Slower. Quieter. Analogue.

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Friends, I need recommendations for a European and green alternative to Squarespace for my photo gallery (and soon) ecom website. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. PS no AI / vibe code please, thank you. #photgraphy

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is great - don't despair! "The greatest question we confront, possibly the greatest question humanity has ever confronted, is whether we can hit the social tipping points before we hit the environmental tipping points." www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

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Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel

There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Summer Storm Clouds Over The South Downs. (August 2026) #Art #Painting #Landscape #BlueSkyArtShow

A blue and white monochrome (almost abstract) expressionist landscape painting of summer storm clouds over lined fields and byways. There's a faint hint of a sloping hillside on the horizon line and faint hints of hedges and fences.

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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 09/08/2026

South Uist, 2022 #otd

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