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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 27/09/2026

apples, painted by james marion shull, 1913

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David Eberlin @davideberlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A shot in the shore break at Cromer. #sharemondays2026

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Katherine Smith @katherinesmiths.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Something great about TTL is the opportunity for play, fun, hope, comfort: a rare and tricky kind of writing.

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Katherine Smith @katherinesmiths.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Probably,” (they said, with certainty in their voices, as if they had ever felt anything like what I was feeling) “Probably you do not have a mushroom growing in your lung." @sarahgailey.bsky.social Medical ableism, pregnancy, body horror. One of my favourites from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

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What Grew - Uncanny Magazine

Before I knew I was pregnant I would stand before the mirror and wonder why I was different why I was growing what was wrong with my too-small skin. “Probably,” (they said, with certainty in their voi...

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This beautiful stained glass window is set into the door of 29 Bute Gardens, a Glasgow Style townhouse created in 1907 by John Nisbet. The shape of it is unlike anything else I've seen in the city. #glasgow #architecture #stainedglass #window #architecturephotography

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Katherine Smith @katherinesmiths.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is so perfectly crafted, I keep reading it.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Balloon fiesta, 2014, oil on canvas by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt #Bristol

Painting featuring hot air ballons taking off from a green field

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Volucella inanis on Hemp agrimony in the wind, Garret Hostel Lane, Cambridge. #WildWebsWednesday #Hoverflies #Diptera

A large yellow and black Hoverfly on pale pink flowers.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

'Landscape with Hidden Moon' by Scottish artist Victoria Crowe #WomensArt

Painting of a forest at night with tall trees in silhouette against a dark purple and blue sky

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Phil Greenwood (Welsh, born 1943) Buttercup Ridge, 1980 Etching and aquatint 59 x 48 cm Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Introducing IC 1396 and the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. My paint, 2400-year-old photons. My canvas is a camera sensor, and my choice of colors is the Hubble palette courtesy of NASA. 🎨😆 #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #nebula #eastcoastkin #photography

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this c. 1926 teal silk velvet dress with Moorish inspired glass beading and metallic thread embellishment. It was designed by the French fashion house of Callot Soeurs. The Robert & Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection. #fashionhistory

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The thing I love about drone photography is finding patterns that look so much better from above! Bilton Beach, Durness #Scotland

A white sand beach seen from directly above. There is a line of messy rocks at the bottom - mostly black but some red ones (gneiss) and from them are some channels which are vaguely pink, leading to the sea (not in shot).

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Richard Williamson @rcwmsn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

And now for something completely different… December. Fra Aarets Maaneder ~ December. From Months of The Year by Theodor Kittelsen, 1890 Mixed media 37 cm x 29 cm Theodor Kittelsen Museum, Blaafarveværket the Skuterudhøyden ridge by the Cobalt Mines See alt text

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (27 April 1857 Kragerø – 21 January 1914 Jeloya) was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls.

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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ice, ice baby ❄️ Court robe, 1750-70, Whit Auction ❄️ Skating jacket, padded & quilted, white swansdown, worn over outdoor costume, 1875-85, MCR Art ❄️ Evening dress, 1885, MFA Bost #Advent

Back view of court robe dating from 1750-70

Skating jacket, worn over outdoor costume, 1875-85, MCR Art

Back view of evening dress, 1885, MFA Bost

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🧵 Here is the Nebra sky disk, considered by some the oldest known illustration of the night sky. The artifact was discovered near Nebra alongside several Bronze Age weapons and is linked to the Unetice culture, which thrived in parts of Europe... ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap18031... 🔭 🧪 #histsci 1/4

A circular bronze disk, about 30 cm across, with a dark green patina from age. Gold leaf inlays form a night sky: scattered round dots represent stars, a tight cluster of seven marks the Pleiades, a full circle near the center is the Sun, and a thin crescent below it is the Moon. Two gold arcs curve along opposite edges, possibly horizons or solstice markers; a third arc at the bottom may indicate a boat or river. The surface shows faint hammer marks and corrosion.

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frankmoth.bsky.social @frankmoth.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"a Bright Glimpse to our Future" New Collage ~ Everything may be gloomy and dark, but the eyes of our soul will only see light From our Nostalgic Escapism Collection Find it here: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1745... #frankmoth #collageart #surrealism #landscape #circle #sun

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Luke Hunt @lukehunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The much needed and constant rain has allowed me to restart my barn owl project, all be it having to get up before sunrise. The last time I was able to photograph an owl was back in April. #sharemondays2025 #photography #birds #barnowl

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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 22/09/2025

Venice Architecture Biennale. Impossible to even start to describe or explain such a massive exhibition in a single post. So I’ll just share some images I shot on iPhone during the visit and maybe some video in my Instagram stories. #sharemondays2025 #photography #landscapephotography

Interweaving points and delicate feather like patterns in abstract form.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Definite signs of #autumn now on the leaves along the canal. Not taking the camera out yet - perhaps one of these days I'll feel inspired again... Here's one from Richmond Park a couple of years ago. #LocalPhotography

A backlit autumnal fern with a cobweb covered in dew.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

General submission open on Monday 22 September. We are looking for speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Our remit is very broadly fun, but don't self-reject - a truly superb story offers an enjoyment of it's own.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

'The Golden Blinds.' (1909) In James Hamilton Hay's pictures, he painted times of day with their own distinct and piquant illumination, and yet, like this work, no concentration of general light falls in any particular direction.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

'Running the Bath.' (1895) Ramón Casas was a leading Spanish avant-garde painter. This picture, with its subtle graduations of colour and suffused light, is reminiscent of the introverted 'symphonies' of Whistler and the muted interiors of Vilhelm Hammershøi.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 19/06/2025

kette peaches

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Described as an #1890s servant’s dress, I imagine this was Sunday best, an ensemble saved for days off, the few high days and holidays. These are rare survivals, far more unusual than the garments of the families they worked for #wienmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A long sleeved high collared red wool bodice with a cream floral sprig repeat pattern. It fastens with 17 small cream spherical buttons centre front. There is a hint of a black and white wool check skirt just visible

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Richard Williamson @rcwmsn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Friday Finnish!!! Albert Edelfelt (Finnish, 1854-1905) Rose, 1898 38 × 22,5 cm Finnish National Gallery

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Time-travel to @orkneylibrary.bsky.social in 1957 ✨📖 This clip from ‘Life in the Orkneys’ shows a box of books being packed up in Kirkwall Library to go to families on more rural islands. The box contains books for everyone in the family.

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Jennifer Alford @jenniferalford.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Land and sea - wheel thrown stoneware with locally foraged clays, slips and satin glaze @tathagallery.bsky.social until 26 August #wildclay #elemental #landscape #studio #ceramic #Angus #Dundee #contemporaryceramics #pottery #clay #ceramics #wheelthrown #gallery #art

Wheel thrown stoneware with wild clay glazes evoking the sea and land

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Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Moss mice, Blood moon

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Peter Ray @pencilsqueezer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

An occasional post of an example of my work posted to remind me that I am not a complete waste of oxygen. As you were.

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Call me Jan @followerofclay.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It´s all about fungi! Claviceps purpurea first find \o/ #fungifriends #mycology

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Artist Anne Percoco’s “Indra’s Cloud” a mobile, floating sculpture, was built in 2009 from plastic bottles collected in India’s Yamuna River #womensart

Photo of a floating craft created with plastic bottles on a calm river with a standing person on top holding a long pole

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Andrew McCarthy @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I spent months shooting a specific part of the Milky Way to reveal all the hidden nebulae. I call it “Above the Rift”, a 337 megapixel, 140 hour exposure. My deepest look at the Milky Way yet. Available in print until tomorrow night at the link in my bio.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A 🧵 For centuries, Betelgeuse, the iconic red supergiant in Orion, has fascinated astronomers with its changing brightness. Why does its light vary over a ~6-year cycle? Thanks to the Gemini North telescope, we now have an answer: Betelgeuse has a companion star! 🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #galactic

The image shows a vast star field with a faint yellow-orange star, Betelgeuse, at its center. Two white segments radiate from it, converging toward a black box at the upper left. In the box, Betelgeuse appears as a bright orange, almost circular disk, next to its companion, a smaller, less well-defined, dark blue star located slightly to the lower left of Betelgeuse. The companion, detected with the 'Alopeke instrument on the Gemini North telescope, is a hot, young star. This discovery explains Betelgeuse's brightness variability every six years.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 17/07/2025

The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots! ➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪

The Andromeda galaxy, a spiral galaxy, spreads across the width. It is tilted nearly edge-on to our line of sight so that it appears as an extreme oval on its side. The borders of the galaxy are jagged because the image is a mosaic of smaller, square images. The outer edges of the galaxy are blue, while the inner two-thirds are yellowish with a bright, central core. Dark, dusty filamentary clouds wrap around the outer half of the galaxy’s disk. At 10 o’clock, a smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy forms a fuzzy, yellow blob. Hubble’s sharp vision distinguishes about 200 million stars within the image. The background of space is black. There are what appears to be steps toward the bottom, mainly toward the middle, which indicates where no data were taken.

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Uta Feinstein @utafeinstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Utility/telegraph poles for #communication infrastructure. A #lightning arc hit our house last year & exploded the internet box.🌩️💥⚡ #WeekCforCommunication #AlphabetChallenge #PhotographersUnited #photography #PhotoHour #photographersofbluesky #StormHour #EastCoastKin #bluesky #mobilephotography

Upper section of a utility pole, mirrored. Showing delicate circular and linear line patterns in front of pale blue sky.

Upper section of a utility pole with switches, mirrored. Showing delicate circular and angular line patterns in front of purple- blue sky.

Upper section of a utility pole, mirrored. Showing an exploded BT box and small climbing steps for maintenance access. A lightning bolt in the centre. Delicate wire cable lines spreading radially for disytribution in front of pale blue sky.

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Franky DeAngelis @frankydeangelisart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The beginnings of a powerful storm cell that I chased for twenty miles. #storm #thunderstorms #photography #silvercitynm

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Landscape & Wildlife Photo Magazines @photomagazines.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

LPM PHOTO OF THE DAY Take Part: landscapephotographymagazine.com/ulp White Sands National Park, USA by Rod Barbee

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Three Graces at Garden of the Gods in Colorado. Something a kin to Laura Gilpin’s images from over a hundred years ago…details in next post. 720 nm #gardenofthegods #infrared #colorado #landscapephotography #infraredphotography

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Jo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Common Blue on Timothy, Phleum pratense.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Female Willow emerald damselfly in the garden this evening. 📷 #photography #BlueskyArtShow #summerdaze

Side view of an emerald coloured Damselfly on a dried up Apple leaf, against a blurred green sunny background.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I can only imagine the challenge of stitching floral motifs into this sheerest of white muslins of a quality so fine it was described at the time as ‘woven wind’. The ephemeral cloth makes the flowers shine all the more brightly, c1815 @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Front view of a sheer white muslin dress in empire line style with a high gathered bodice and short puff sleeves. The front of the skirt is decorated with hand embroidered floral motifs of two styles, smaller in the middle and larger framing the side of the skirt and around the hem

Back view of the sheer white muslin empire line dress which is in decorated except for the floral embroidered motifs around the hem. There is a panel of pleated and gathered fabric centre back

Fabric detail of the smaller hand embroidered floral motifs decorating the sheer white muslin dress worked in shades of green, pink and red

A detail of the larger floral motifs decorating the sheer white muslin dress in shades of green, pink and red

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John David Fawcett @headbaby.com · 17/05/2025

Your thoughts aren’t your own if they came without a fight — dig into the dark. Nikon D70 560nm infrared with a Vivitar FLD filter. #photography #infrared #560nm #infraredphotography #IR #jumpingspider

This is a highly detailed, full spectrum infrared photograph capturing a small, brightly lit jumping spider on a soft, pastel-hued surface. The spider is centrally positioned and walking along the edge of a petal or leaf, which curves diagonally across the image from the top left to bottom right. The surface is bathed in pink and peach tones, with delicate golden-yellow accents along the edges, likely caused by the way infrared light reflects off the material.

The spider itself has an almost otherworldly appearance due to the full spectrum imaging. Its body is predominantly a deep, dark blue-black color, with high contrast against the warm background. The legs are semi-translucent and glow with bright orange and yellow hues, revealing fine details such as hair-like textures and joints. The spider’s front two legs are lifted slightly, giving the impression that it is alert or in motion.

Most striking are the spider’s eyes and head region. The spider has several large, reflective eyes which appear as intense, glowing red orbs, standing out vividly against its dark head. Protruding from the top of its head are short, horn-like structures or thick sensory hairs, also glowing faintly in the infrared spectrum.

The overall composition is soft and surreal, with the dreamy pink background creating a stark and vivid contrast with the sharply detailed and vibrantly colored spider. The image showcases both scientific clarity and artistic abstraction, made possible through the use of full spectrum infrared photography, which captures wavelengths of light invisible to the human eye.

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