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Karl Mortimer

@fattaff.bsky.social
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Lapsed photographer and doodler

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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Always a rewarding process doing that, brings significance and meaning to the work chap. Love it
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David Baker @milouvision.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Really like being in new deep 'gullies' formed by the shifting dunes #forvie #aberdeenshire #dunes
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Love it chap and it’s great to see you adopting this new rapid processing workflow ;)
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Loving these on YouTube chap…keep em coming
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
More entropy from a heated seat
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Last few images from a cold hour spent looking into a pond :)
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thank you Paul
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Cheers :)
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ta Jon
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Cheers Mick, the garden has served me well over the years
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thank you Cathryn, much appreciated
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ta Paula :)
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Cheers matey
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David Baker @milouvision.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
May in the woods. #local #aberdeenshire
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A little bit of garden pond exploration in lieu of not having managed to get out over the last week or two
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Cheers Steve
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thank you as always Christoph
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Andrew @andrewatkinson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Morning all, been a busy start of the year and photography has taken a backseat for a number of weeks. However, got the chance to spend a few days on the Fife coast
A hide on the coast near St Andrews converted to black and white
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Cheers Nick, much appreciated
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Walk to Work Glasgow @walktoworkglasgow.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Another rainy day self-portrait.
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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 20/02/2025
I wrote about taking this photo in my latest Substack. A “stop the car” moment when we finally saw some atmosphere. No time for tripods, just grab the camera and run. Also a look at working in black and white, which I seldom do. open.substack.com/pub/bullochp... #photography #landscapephotography
A seascape with heavy foreboding skies, however a break in the clouds lets some light through creating a pool of colour on the sea. From the Faroes.
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AndyMacD-Unique Moments Captured @andymacd-photo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I was bemoaning the lack of fresh “subjects” when I remembered this. This is what my photography is all about - observation. Even with a subject in mind it’s rarely what I end up photographing. #GetOutside www.AndyMacD.co.uk #landscape #photography #LandscapePhotography #fineart #Scotland #nature
A shattered deciduous tree surrounded by pines. That’s the literal description, but what I saw was:

- the relationship of a tiny original tree surrounded by huge overbearing farmed trees.
- the way the light hit the horizontal branches “reaching” towards it. I couldn’t decide if that was in that or embrace.
- the darkness and density of the wood behind isolating that little tree.
- the directional flow of the branches and the contrast of the deciduous trunk being upright and static.

Taking the time to observe, is far more important to me than choosing a compelling subject. 

In the end the important thing to remember in photography is just to get outside, observe, tell stories even if just in your my head and photograph the whole rather than the subject.
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Sometimes it’s just all about texture…
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A few more reflections
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A few images from a mini series shot a few years ago in a riverbed up in Yorkshire
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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Charcoal
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Thank you :)
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ta mucker
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Spring is just around the corner, my garden is currently full of snowdrops and hellebores heralding it’s imminent and not too soon arrival :)
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cheers Rob…never say never
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cheers Grant
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thanks Paula…hope you’re keeping well?
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Following on from my last post, a few colour images from the colour half of “As the Sun Sets”
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I knew that geology degree would come in handy one day 😂
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A combination of a number of processes, including those already mentioned here of freeze thaw, de-roofing of the granite causing stress fractures, along with kaolinisation etc. a decent explanation here from the Dartmoor national park www.dartmoor.gov.uk/__data/asset...
dartmoor.gov.uk
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Cheers fella, it lives in InDesign on a hard drive lol
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A few from the B&W half of an old project and book never made real of mine “As the Sun Sets”. Always envisaged a pair of books, one colour, one black and white, of these garden portraits and moments of introspection…then it all got too expensive and my ADHD gave up on completion lol.
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Mick Houghton @mickh5.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Last light Just back from a week in Wester Ross and Scotland did us proud.....5 consecutive blue sky days and I mean blue sky. Literally wall to wall sunshine, not a cloud in sight for the vast majority of the time; little if any wind. Opinan dunes as the sun disappeared. #Sharemondays2025
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Yeah, there’s enough to keep you going for a few days in that neck of the woods mate
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Ta :)
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Thank you oh mighty king of the dunes
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
All ok chap…hope you and yours are all good too?
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Cheers Nathan
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Russ Barnes Photography @russbarnes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Leaning Birches
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Russ Barnes Photography @russbarnes.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Winters Burden
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Ta Rob, they’re hard to resist
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Cheers fella, just realised they’re all from north wales…need to get back up there!
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Cheers Nick
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Thanks Adam, much appreciated
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Karl Mortimer @fattaff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Some dunes from the archives
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