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利大英

@gblee.bsky.social
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Writer and photographer. Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.

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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #Blue 📷©@gblee.bsky.social "Jay in a quince tree 3"
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #Blue 📷©@gblee.bsky.social "Jay in a quince tree 2"
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #Blue 📷©@gblee.bsky.social "Jay in a quince tree 1"
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DavidLB @davidlb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bluebird at Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia, 09.30.2021 #birds
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Ryan Bebej @ryanbebej.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sanderling (Calidris alba) – Wind 'em up, and let 'em go. Here's a cute little sanderling during the fall migration a few years back. www.instagram.com/ryan.bebej.photography 🪶 #birds #birding #birdoftheday #wildlifephotography
Sanderling foraging among the rocks along Lake Michigan
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L Wiezycki @lwiezycki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Roseate Spoonbills, Port Aransas, Texas #birdoftheday #bestbeaks
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L Wiezycki @lwiezycki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Audubon’s Oriole, South Texas #birdoftheday alt #yellowelements
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Heather Wolf @heatherbirds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Magnolia Warbler, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 uplands. #birds
Magnolia Warbler, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 uplands
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jrm.rsok.com @jrm.rsok.com · 02/10/2026
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) moulting in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on August 26, 2026 Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026Sep... #birds #moulting #crosstimbersEcoregion #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography
A Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) that was moulting was standing on a wild grape vine with crest lowered in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on August 26, 2026.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#China #photography #1980s #B&W When I was in China in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were places I visited where I was the first foreigner local people had seen. My camera was focussed on a person but it was their gaze that came first, and mine its return. www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#China #photography #1980s #Buddhism As promised here's a second series of photographs of Buddhist cave art: photographs of Buddhist statuary from Longmen which was close to Luoyang which became the capital of the Northern Wei (386–535) state. www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
As promised here's a second series of photographs of Buddhist cave art: photograohs of Buddhist statuary from Longmen which was close to Luoyang which became the capital of the Northern Wei  (386–535) state.
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The Mancunian Pigeon @themancunianpigeon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#clickoftheday #northernchildhoods #liverpool #therealthing www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNx...
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The Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything (1976) • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
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The Mancunian Pigeon @themancunianpigeon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Peggy Su! dir. Kevin Wong (1997) #mustwatch #throwbackthursday #merseybeat #northernchildhoods youtu.be/I7XIku8BAFU?...
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Chinese Rom-Com You Can't Miss 💌⁠ Peggy Su!
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's my blogpost about Soul music, not just Motown, but Northern Soul that developed in the 1960s and '70s in the North and the Midlands of England. It coincided with a class divide. Some links to the music on Youtube, so you can listen to the songs if you wish. www.gregorylee.net/what-i-came-...
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Stepping off the Soul Train: From Liverpool to London
In the early 1970s, the pre-punk era in Liverpool music wasn't all late Beatles, David Essex and Marc Bolan. There was also Soul. Motown of course, but also and mainly Northern Soul which it is...
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
All hail the Queen 👸 Belted Kingfisher 📷🌿🪶
Belted kingfisher hovering over channel for fish
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They were reading in the street because there was no room in their small living spaces for them to get together.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#photography #b&w #China Today, I came across this photograph of children reading in the street. I took it in 1980 in Changsha, China. It reminded of yesterday's news item on failing standards of children's literacy & numeracy in OECD countries. ©@gblee.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#photography #monochrome #stilllife 'Still life' 📷© @gblee.bsky.social
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
‘Woman sitting on wall.' Tangkou, Huangshan, Anhui. 安徽省黄山市汤口镇. July 1980. #China #photography Photography by ©Gregory B Lee See more at www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #China Post-mao China 1979-1983 slideshow 📷© Gregory B Lee www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#photography #monochrome #Liverpool I was around 13 when I started developing my own films & making contact prints; I had no enlarger. When I was about 14 an art college student let me use his. Here's one of the first photographs I shot, developed and printed: A UK£ pre-decimalisation shopfront.
Waterworths greengrocer's, Harrowby Street/Granby Street, Liverpool 8.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For those interested in French twentieth-century poetry and the Second World War, the unassuming Luberon village of Céreste became the headquarters of the region's maquis or resistance headed by the poet René Char (1907-1988) otherwise known as Capitaine Alexandre.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#streetphotography #photography #monochrome I've uploaded 2 complementary slideshows of BW street photography to my People and Places Photography Archive : "A village in the Luberon on a winter's eve" AND "On the street in Nice". www.gregorylee.net/people-and-places-photography-archive.html
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People and Places Photography Archive
Regularly updated archive of photographs I've taken over the years. All photographs © Gregory B. Lee
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#bird #photography Herons, ducks, jays and tits. www.gregorylee.net/photographs-...
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Photographs of plants and non-human animals
Archive of recent photographs of birds, insects, other non-human animals and plant life' All photographs © Gregory B. Lee
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#photography #streetphotography A couple of these are good, but, taken overall, I just wonder is this the best street photography has to offer? What do you think? LensCulture street photography awards 2026 winners – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘My way to escape reality’: LensCulture street photography awards 2026 winners – in pictures
From pre-dawn Vietnam to cats scaling walls, the scenes in these prize-winning photographs show how the everyday can become mysterious, poetic and surreal
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #ThinPerches Not so thin perch for this juvenile jay. © @gblee.bsky.social
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#ColourfulCharacters. #BirdOfTheDay
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#ColourfulCharacters. #BirdOfTheDay
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HLK @hlkfotos.com · 22/08/2026
Blue-bellied roller bird. #BirdOfTheDay #ColourfulCharacters 📷🌿🪶
A photo of a blue-bellied roller (Coracias cyanogaster) perched on a brown branch, facing toward the left with its head tilted quizzically as it looks at something below it. It's a stocky bird with a thick black bill, cream-colored head and breast, dark brown-black wings, and a vivid cobalt-blue belly and rump. Its long, forked tail trails off to the lower right, showing elongated teal-blue streamers. It's lit by a shaft of sunlight against a dark, shadowed forest background.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#photography #monochrome A new slideshow on my People and Places Photography Archive: a selection of photographs (mainly in black and white) of sunsets, sunrises and waterside scenes from Macau to Xinjiang, and Lyon to St Andrews between 1978 and 2024. www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
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debmaluk.bsky.social @debmaluk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
a soggy Baltimore Oriole for #BirdOfTheDay #RainyDayBirds
A Baltimore Oriole on a wet branch.  The bird is also wet.  The chest is orange and the head is black.  The bird is looking at the camera and is not amused.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
'Last outing before the rains.' © 📷 @gblee.bsky.social
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#birds #photography Am I wrong in identifying this bird as a cinereous tit or Asian tit (Parus cinereus)? 📷 © @gblee.bsky.social Provence, France. 2020.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#photography #China #Spain #France A special Sunday image drop today. Three black and white photographs from Seville, Arles and Beidaihe. Plus six colour transparencies: Urumqi, Beijing, Beidaihe and Shanghai (1981-1983). www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p...
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People and Places Photography Archive
Regularly updated archive of photographs I've taken over the years. All photographs © Gregory B. Lee
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#China #film © @gblee.bsky.social Qingdao/Tsingtao 青岛 November 1982. Super 8mm Kodak film.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In this extended, "long read", blogpost I recall the books that I read in the second half of the 1970s, books that laid the intellectual foundations for much that followed. EXTRA-CURRICULAR READING: FROM CHILE TO CHINA www.gregorylee.net/what-i-came-...
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EXTRA-CURRICULAR READING: FROM CHILE TO CHINA
When I was an undergraduate at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), I read a great deal, unfortunately, my teachers might have said, this activity along with student politics...
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#photography #nature ‘The squirrel and the walnut that got away. www.gregorylee.net/photographs-of-plants-and-non-human-animals.html
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#photography #nature #squirrel 'Squirrel and walnut' 📷© @gblee.bsky.social
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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For the #BirdOfTheDay main theme, #RedOrDead — any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird, here is a Great Blue Heron waiting for the boat. #birds #birding #birdphotography
A great blue heron in Ontario, Canada.
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#BirdArt #birds from the《鳥譜》【The Illustrated Catalogue of Birds】 National Palace Museum in Taipei; National Palace Museum. 珠頸斑鳩 Streptopelia chinensis ‘Spotted dove'
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Glen G @gleng.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Morning #bird A Black-Necked Stilt enjoying the water at the Gilbert Riparian Area in Gilbert Arizona. Mallard in background for scale. #birdoftheday #FabulousWaders
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #firsts My first bird photograph was of cormorants on a Suzhou canal in #China in 1985. 📷©@gblee.bsky.social
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#birds #photography "Wood pigeon defending its nest' 📷 © @gblee.bsky.social
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#birds #photography 'Young, curious collared dove.' 📷© @gblee.bsky.social
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利大英 @gblee.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Creativity over survival
We are inhabited by abyssal forces that poetry alone has the power to fathom . Raoul Vaneigem I don't go in for heroes, but I have throughout my life and career been drawn to a clutch of thinkers and....
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