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Dan. Hobby photographer. Mostly urban decay, graffiti, a vague sense of isolation, graveyards, birds on telegraph poles, or things generally slightly out of place. Posts usually accompanied with a flippant attempt at comedy. Kent, UK

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2h
Graveyard, Eglwys Sant Hywyn, Aberdaron. #scape 📷 #photography
View up a hill of rather dried-out grass scattered with gravestones leaning this way and that. At the back is a wall so low against the tall grass that it almost functions as a ha-ha and beyond that modern houses, one white, the others pebbledash, and a telegraph pole with wires hanging across. The sky is blue with a swirl of hazy cloud.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 12h
#31daysofgraves Day 2: Urn Vandalism or Vengeance?
An urn left at a graveside has fallen onto the ground. The lettering said, "A loving husband and father", except the letters of the word 'husband' have been removed.
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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎃 Brand new work to celebrate it being October! 🎃 ‘Halloween in the Suburbs’. Black pen and acrylic inks on off white paper. Unsigned Giclee Prints: £50 +P&P Signed Giclee Prints: £70 +P&P Illustration size: A4 Email Nick at: nicktankardart@gmail.com 🎃👻
An illustration of a small old wooden house with a little porch. Its windows are illuminated by the light within. The house sits on a street in suburban America, it is Halloween. The neighbourhood is active with spooky goings on, ghosts in white sheets on the street and in the windows of the house, mummies amble about, glowing pumpkins on the sidewalk and porch. A black cat strolls in front of the house, a black crow sits on top of the little house. On the porch a little witch with her black dress, broom and crooked hat knocks on the door, trick or treating? Going to a party? Or an unwanted guest? 
The illustration is done in black crosshatch pen on white paper, the pumpkins are orange with yellow glowing eyes in stark contrast to the black & white. Whimsical and celebratory…Halloween in the Suburbs!
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gotta love a bit of Chas 'n' Dave. Always raises a smile 😁
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All the lines #AOFoto #Photography
B & W. Scaffolding off the front of a house with a platform heading further away from the building than usual. Platforms all supported by scaffold with triangular struts for extra support. Ladders going up a couple of flights. Gaps in the boards. Mortar between the bricks on another house to our left. All creating lines in various directions.
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Eddy Whitebo @eddywhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the parking lot Salmon Arm B.C. #photography
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#31daysofgraves Day 1 Flower Soft daisies
Black & white. A clump of daisies in the foreground, they are in a soft focus with a weathered headstone behind them. It has two skulls at the top. They are looking at eachother with hollow eyes, neither has a lower jaw so cannot speak.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just watched The 12 Days of Christine Inside No 9 episode again, and now I'm in absolute pieces 🥺
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a3minutewonder.bsky.social @a3minutewonder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#aofoto #Streetart Rodeo Doughnuts.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Signs on scaffold with phone numbers at least 26 years old. Could be a new hashtag 🤔
The corner of an urban street.  A nice corner curve on the pavement followed around by a single yellow line. A Voi rental ebike blocks that pavement. The building next to it has a new rear wall but the side wall looks older. A yellow sign is mounted on a small scaffold pole with an 0171 phone number that you can phone for breakfast, lunch or salt beef.
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I took some peripheral photos of the current state of the world around the Anglia Square demolition. And it happening as well. It’s still fascinating, all the shapes and lines and alignments of a slowly degrading piece of city opening up and showing a bare layered soul as the world walks by.
The arm of one beast through the arm of another. Very black and white. I’m posting these here because Instagram is so utterly fucking pointless for photographers.
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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#31DaysOfGraves starts TOMORROW! Welcoming posts from graveyards, cemeteries, or related places throughout October. No rules - interpret however and wherever you want, but AI is strongly discouraged. Image is the New Jewish Cemetery in Kraków. #cemetery #graveyard #heritage #genealogy
An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori
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Passed Wonder @passedwonder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is pleasing to my eye #composition #LeadingLines #Photography #StreetPhotography
White paint has spilled across brick-paved pavement near a wheelybin, and flowed down the gullies between the bricks thus creating a very regular and straight spill line away from the original more messy spill.
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Diletant Perplex @hectorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
decadència del petit comerç local diletantperplexe.wordpress.com #photography
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The getaway vehicle #Photography
A hospital wheelchair left on the pavement, in front of a multistorey car park
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colin @clcart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bus stop #Photography #ECK #AOFoto #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StreetPhotography #Lumix
A high contrast, black and white photograph framed within a thin white border. Centered in the midground, a modern glass paneled bus shelter stands brightly illuminated by low angle sunlight, making its translucent frosted panes glow against the shadows. Faint graffiti tag lettering is visible on the central rear panel of the shelter. The background is dominated by the dark silhouettes of residential buildings and trees against a clear sky. In the deep shadow of the foreground, a paved road stretches horizontally, fronted by grass and three dark wooden bollards.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Slightly out-of-whack. Something to brighten up a Sunday evening though. #AOFoto #Photography
A boarded up window with the red cabinet of a dry riser cabinet underneath. The bricks are painted a vibrant yellow to the top of the window. Above that? Forget about it, bog-standard brick colour for you
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Wintermute🍄 @wintermuteman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Build the wall #AOFoto #Photography
A wall underneath a railway bridge, at the top is mounted a road sign for 'America Street', in the London Borough of Southwark. On a taller wall behind is graffiti of a kind of demonic rabbit (🤷) peering over.
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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
From ten years ago, toys retrieved from the bottom of the Yeading Brook at Southall on a litter pick.
A grimy toy knight or soldier figure in brown and pale armour, standing on a cut log in woodland with a pile of branches and a black bin bag in the background.A dirt-covered baby doll with blue eyes, sitting on a pile of cut branches in woodland, one arm resting on a branch.A muddy, weathered Batman action figure standing on a cut tree stump in woodland, arms bent in a fighting stance.A weathered plastic bear toy or ornament perched on a tree branch in woodland, with a hole worn through its mouth and chest, and cobweb-like debris caught on its belly.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Under the arches, somewhere near London Bridge #AOFoto #Photography
A sandy brown rendered wall with;
"The Ring
Boxing Club
Est 1910"
Pressed into it, the bottom line is painted white. Small square vents framing the word on each side. Remnants of yellow diagonal lines painted on the floor below.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Autumn shades #AOFoto #UrbanGaze
A brick wall on the boundary of a park behind an outbuilding, the slope of the roof behind reaching up to the tree branches. Most of the bottom half of the wall is a weathered orangey colour, the top is a darker red, a tag sprayed in white links the two. Fallen leaves on the ground blurs the wall into the road.
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colin @clcart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
cone-scape #Scape #Photography #ECK #AOFoto #StreetPhotography #Lumix
A minimalist, framed colour photograph set against a pale blue sky with soft, wispy clouds. On the left and center stand two palm trees with green fronds and brown, dried palm leaves hanging beneath them. To the right, a tall metal pole extends upward. Mounted near the bottom of the pole is a round white sign with a red border and a black slash over a silhouette of a dog, indicating no dogs allowed. An orange and white traffic cone is unexpectedly placed atop the very top of the pole. The image features a bright, pastel aesthetic with a clean, humorous, and surreal composition.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tumbledown lorry. Potentially up on bricks, definitely behind a pile of 'em. #AOFoto #UrbanGaze
A small lorry (could very nearly be a van?!) with a red cab and white trailer, both dappled with the shadows of trees. It is on the bank of a large river, in a grassy working area behind a metal wire barrier.
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Tim Riley @timriley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Queen's Park.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Saturday Night Starlings 🕺 #Photography
Black & white. A road and double yellow line curve away from us, some single storey buildings follow them around. Three starlings are in the road, they are enjoying a tiny puddle in the no-mans land between tarmac and kerb.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I love a pylon, but I never even knew this was a thing! A great 30 minute watch, even though I spent most of it hoping they'd get some goggles, a mask and maybe a harness of some sort 🫣 youtu.be/M0DEVjwUAZE?...
youtu.be
1997: The People Who Paint Pylons | Picture This | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Ali @sayingnowt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Found a real @leemadgwick.bsky.social scene in York today.
Rowntree Wharf between the River Foss and Wormald’s Cut in York. A Victorian brick-built warehouse, its nine-storey tower is adorned with mock battlements. The sky is cloudy with some breaks to reveal blue beyond and the water is green with weed.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Love The Feeling. A Primark bag looking radiant in the sunshine, seen twice on an out & back walk.
A Primark bag hanging on the concrete post of a wire mesh fence. Shrubs and trees behind. It's 100% recycled polyester so I'm sure this is fine.
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Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
work, rest and play #ghostsigns
An old corner shop that’s been closed for years, but is somehow so well preserved. It always feels special to see something like this when I’m out and about and there’s been a few of these moments in Blackburn.
The sign says ‘ROYAL CORNER SHOP - Mr. & MRS.ESAT’ along with a vintage Mars advertisement ‘a Mars a day…’

Blackburn, Lancs
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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#Alphabetchallenge #WeekIForIntegers #AOFoto 1806
A photo of the doorway that leads up to The Portico Library in Manchester. 
The panelled door is a beautiful green with a vertical brass letterbox.
Above the door is golden signage that says Portico Library Founded 1806.
To the left is the top of a traffic light that is lit green.
It was a sunny day and the shadow from the traffic light can be seen on the door
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I need this t-shirt too, pal #Photography
Black & white. A parking ticket machine in the foreground with Victorian gardens and crescent behind. The machine has been covered in a fabric bag with the words 'MACHINE NOT IN USE'
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A trolley thrown off the walkway into a river is now stranded upside down in the mud. Its front wheels like eyes on stalks take in the desperate scene. Its shadow tries to escape. Blobs of seaweed close in.
Black & white photo. Alt text is the main caption.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And ... Action 🎬 #Photography #UrbanGaze
An urban scene. Scaffolding in front of a red brick building. Yellow safety sponge wrapped around the poles. A ladder leans onto the first level from the pavement. A red barrier on the road. Shadows from the sun on our right.
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Lol @loltype.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Siloed coast Seascale Sports Hall
A red sandstone building with an arched doorway and blue sign for ‘SEASCALE Sports HALL’ 

West Cumbria
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Chris Wayman @staffswayman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Asturian power ⚡⚡⚡ #monochrome 📷 #silhouette #pylon #highvoltage #EastCoastKin
Looking up at pylon in silhouette
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Modernist Delights @modernistdelights.com · 23/08/2026
Trellick Tower, Cheltenham Estate, Kensal Town, London, 2025 📸 View HD images at modernistdelights.com/trellick-towe… #brutalism #photography #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #dslrphotography #concrete #favourite #london #londonphotography
A tall, rectangular concrete block of flats with many balconies stands against a blue sky. Shorter buildings and leafless trees are visible at the base. Contrail lines are in the sky. The scene is well-lit by sunlight.The entrance to Trellick Tower, a concrete residential building, with large block letters above the doors. Three bicycles are parked nearby, and a bus stop stands to the right with a timetable display. Trees and blue sky are visible in the background.A tall, brutalist block of flats with many rows of white-framed windows and concrete balconies, viewed from below. The sky is partly visible, and leafless tree branches frame the scene on both sides.A curved, grey, multi-storey block of flats lines the right side of a street with parked cars. In the background, a tall tower block rises against a bright, partly cloudy sky. Trees with sparse leaves stand to the left of the scene.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Whitby Abbey #Photography
Black & white. A zip line, the seat hangs towards the right, two wooden triangular supports look like a teepee. Long grass behind with a solitary tree. Beyond those to the left is Whitby Abbey in the distance.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The George Hotel, Whitby #Photography
A gothic vibe to the tall red brick building with art-deco style window surrounds. A stone plaque at the top says 'Railway Station Hotel'. The bottom floor is a pub with a deep blue wood finish and ornate arched windows with flower patterns in the centre. A bright sunny day.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Discovery Gifts #Photography #UrbanGaze
A large seaside gift shop that is no longer open. Cups & glasses left in the window display. Above the first floor windows mounted on the sandy plaster is 'Discovery Gifts' in red lettering. Two St George's flags in the top left bedroom window.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Your carriage awaits #Photography
A mobility scooter at the bottom of a few steps that lead up to bungalows. Railings either side have some scaffolding up around them with blue netting. Shadows peer through to the street.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A modern horror #Photography
Black & white. A badly faded sign has the shadows of what were people enjoying their day at the seaside until the huge swooping shadow seagull swoops down; "Stop Attacks - Never feed the gulls".
In the background Whitby Abbey can be seen on the cliff opposite.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Black rectangles everywhere
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sundays. Fun, but slightly depressing. #Photography
A Herring Gull guzzles melted ice cream from a discarded plastic cup left on a stone wall. An iced coffee in another plastic cup with a pink straw watches on.
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Gearóid (pronounced Garrowed) @garrowed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
51.37869, -2.36525 #Signage #Doors #BathUK #ClassicMono #Photography
An aged industrial building features a wicket gate—a small door within a larger door—with a white sign reading "DANGEROUS BUILDING KEEP OUT" set in Helvetica without punctuation. Painted above the doors is "NEWARK WORKS" but in this photograph, NEWARK and the S have been cropped out. The riverside frontage of the 19th century Stothert & Pitt engineering works. Lower Bristol Road, Bath, UK. Photo by Gearóid Burke.
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Chris Wayman @staffswayman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Curved perspective: #Cudillero 🇪🇸 #monochrome 📷 #EastCoastKin
Curved perspective looking up a traditional street in Spain.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The power stance. Slightly undermined. #Photography
Black & white. The silhouette of a statue towards the edge of a cliff, the sea and another cliff on the other side of the bay beyond. He is standing with his legs at shoulder width. A seagull is perched on his head.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Hi stranger, like the door 🫡 #Photography
The driveway up to a suburban house. A large hydrangea plant in bloom leads us to a wooden green door with peeling paint. A blue bin leans wearily against the wall, tantalisingly out of reach of the shade provided by some tall shrubs above.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yep, it's blue again. Have a good Friday 🐻‍❄️ #Photography
Black and white photo. A plastic polar bear on all fours looks up at the sky. They're on the flat roof of an extension. Metal barriers in front of the building below.
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The sun sets on a beautiful old gate #Photography
An old wooden gate leans against a brick wall. The latest paint was brown, but this is peeling away to reveal layers of green and yellow below. A golden light from the setting sun.
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