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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

trying these in colour, when I posted them in bw bluesky showed the uploads ok while I created the post, then rendered them all as solid black rectangles when the post went up. Anyone else had that happen? #nature #garden, #sonbahar, #sonbaharbahçesi #photography #blackandwhite

A clump of Colchicum flowers in dappled sunlight, among green leaves; the centre of each petal is pale pink, but they turn to vivid pinks and magentas towards the edge of the petals. Some of the flowers are fading and some have flopped over. The flowers look like crocuses, and are often called 'autumn crocus', but they're actually a different genus.

Two opium poppy seed heads side by side against a background of greys and greens where the garden beyond is completely defocused. The seed heads are round, mottled grey and blue-grey, and where they've opened at the top to distribute the seed they're pale brown. At the top, you can see the remains of the stigmas, like a circle of thick petals, and beneath each 'petal' is a rectangular hole where the seeds have shaken out as the seed head blew in the wind. One of the seed heads has broken open at the side.

A patch of cyclamen leaves seen from above. The leaves are a stylized heart shape with jagged edges. Some are dark green with pale marbling following the shape of the leaf, leaving a dark arrow-head in the middle of the leaf. The biggest cyclamen in the group has plain leaves in a pale grey-green, often called 'pewter'. One single weed in a bright fresh green has poked its way up between the leaves.

A diagonal line crosses the image, from top left to bottom right; it's the irregular line at the edge of a lawn that hasn't been well tended, so it's all spikes of grass in the upper section of the image. Below the line is a stone slab made of warm brown sandstone, with a riven surface. Scattered across the image are dried rowan leaves and scarlet rowan berries. Some of the berries have been crushed underfoot and are turning brown.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gaza 2023 & 2026. Image flips at 5 seconds. animation by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

elected politician berates elected politicians for getting involved with #Drumcree march confrontation www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

screenshot from Guardian newspaper: "Chris Bryant, the UK government’s secretary for Northern Island, has also issued a caution when asked about First Minister Michelle O’Neill, and Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald being present.
“I don’t think any elected politician should be supporting an unlawful protest,” he told Sky News."

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is too good not to take a moment to make it more legible as always 'Open Image in a New Tab' is your friend

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here I am crossing the Atlantic at high speed, wearing my SuperScot suit, all blue, with a white full-body Saltire, and my special S for Scotland spandex underpants. I'm going so fast that I know most of you won't even be able to see me.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From Kent Police Force Management Statement 2026. The first significant issue it identifies is far right protest. www.kent.police.uk/SysSiteAsset...

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Now let him spend a while at Valley Forge, George.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There's a grim irony in Prentice being found to have claimed a staffer's work as her own, in the midst of a storm about alleged plagiarism. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

don't miss Twixxer much, but I do remember this moment fondly

a Twitter notification saying: 'Church of Scotland' and 'Satan' followed you

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the one-page summary version of the Kairos declaration heard at Synod

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the one-page summary version of the Kairos declaration

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

finally got to the big clearout of art college stuff, this was 2nd year when I started with Chinese ink and either brush or bamboo pen. Transformed my drawing, because it forces you to commit to the line / stroke, no hesitation. #lifedrawing

a drawing of a seated figure, made with a broad brush with Chinese ink, the lines move from broad solid marks through broad marks with streaks from the bristles, to narrow lines with sharp turns. The whole figure is represented in an impressionistic way with only a dozen or so strokes.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

tried it just for the hell of it ..

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

with Cariad Celis in 2019 strong temptation to crop this but I've resisted #photography #figure #figurephotography #garden

black and white photo of a woman in a casual robe, sitting on stone steps by a garden wall .. the steps and wall built of random shaped stone. The robe falls open to show her legs, gracefull extended. The hood of the robe is over her head, but her face looks out from it with a wistful expression. The woman and the wall are in dappled sunlight, to the left, the top of the steps are in shadow.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

with Kat Folan in 2014 improvised reflector: one of those 'eastern' brass tray tabletops; gave a quirky highlight on the wall to complement the dress, and a touch of infill on Kat's face. #photography, #fashion, #fashionphotography, #modelphotography

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Should get me through the first half. #LUFC

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

looking through old photos from Istanbul, 2009 The departure lounge at Ataturk airport, when it was still the main civil airport, before IST. #panorama, #streetphotography

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

the #medrese in #Istanbul, in 2009 #streetphotography #reportage I started shooting vertical panoramas after seeing Horst Hamann's photos of New York. I reposted one earlier, sadly not a great version; the book, New York Vertical, is well worth a look if you're into panoramas.

a colour photo of the interior of a nargile cafe in Istanbul. The cafe is in a former medrese, with tall domed ceilings. The ceilings are cream, but covered with patterned motifs, and the arches that hold the domes are painted in alternating brick and cream. There is an old, worn stone floor, and there are oriental rugs in deep red colours hanging on the walls. Small tables in the foreground have tops made of colourful patterned tiles. It's daytime, and the whole scene has a light, airy feel.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

by Horst Hamann, from New York Vertical, 2003. #panorama #streetphotography

a black and white photo by Horst Hamann, of New York. It's a tall panorama looking across the city from a high viewpoint. Almost straight down below, in deep shadow, are streets with cars parked, in the middle distance, still below the skyline, is a swathe of medium to tall buildings, and in the distance are skyscrapers white against a dull sky. There is a sense of depth, of distance, and of the city crowded with buildings and man-made structures of all sizes.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

careful observers of the background will see that the cezve (basket for coals) is being pressed onto the head of the #nargile with such force that the whole room is tilting. Important to capture these fleeting localised tectonic movements. #Istanbul #İstanbul #reportage #streetphotography

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ted Grant: “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls.” But a rug isn't a person; colour is part of its soul. Despite the appeal of composition. bw for the #medrese project, but with exceptions.

black and white photo of an oriental rug hanging from a white wall, the wall has cables running across it, and a set of LED stars and moons has been hung across the rug.

a colour photo of the same oriental rug hanging from a white wall; the rug is in shades of red, some faded towards yellow, some deep and rich, the wall has cables running across it, and a set of LED stars and moons has been hung across the rug.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

the ceiling of the medrese / nargile cafe in #Istanbul #streetphotography

A black and white photo of the ceiling of a one-time medrese which now houses several nargile cafes. The original ceiling is a row of small cupolas in stone with a paint or plaster finish; some of the plaster is flaking, but on some of it you can see calligraphic motifs. Harsh spotlights shine up from the foot of each cupola. In counterpoint to the ceiling's series of curves is a modern grid of steel bars supporting strip lights and heaters.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

last one for tonight, looking from the lower deck of the Galata Bridge / Galata Köprüsü, towards the Sultanahmet side of the Golden Horn, with Süleymaniye Mosque on the left. #Streetphotography #Istanbul

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

the #medrese; late night attempts to photograph smoke from the nargile as its last faint trails disappear into shapes that look like Arabic calligraphy. Crazy ISO, prefocus, burst mode, chasing the smoke as it drifts, then extreme processing. #streetphotography #reportage #medrese #Istanbul

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

the ceiling of the #medrese, now a #nargile cafe. From #byzantine columns to #islamic calligraphy to aircon lines repaired with duct tape. In the building itself, as much as in the culture of the place, it's a metonymy for #Istanbul. #streetphotography

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

And a C-130 so they can bring their egos with them

Photo of a C-130 military aircraft for carrying massive loads

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

here's one for Christian readings of the conquest narrrative too; by @ddelgadovive.bsky.social via @theradr.bsky.social www.lifeisasacredtext.com/joshua/

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

an astonishing insight from Jonathan Freedland.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

They were all out of impatient sandwiches

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

spare a thought for Iraq: strikes from US / Israeli (blue) and Iranian (red) missiles. there are Iranian strikes very close to the Turkish border. Some strange details being well hidden by the scale and breadth of the war's expansion. (map ed from Guardian, w. Iraq highlighted)

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Couple from the #garden today #Cherry Prunus 'Beni Chidori' and #Galanthus 'Spindlestone Surprise'. Beni Chidori, the rootstock is fearsomely vigorous. Have air-layered it and a couple potted up last year are looking ok. Spindlestone just thrives wherever we put it. #photography #naturephotography

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Couple of snowdrops from the #garden yesterday A virescent #Galanthus from a pot grown from seed from Anne Wright. Second year flowering and the poculiform seems to be a settled feature. G. Rosemary Burnham. Single bulb planted just a couple of years ago. #photography #naturephotography

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

it's worrying that Starmer's so strongly influenced by MAGA culture warriors

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Leucojum vernum in the garden today (same family as snowdrops). Leucojums and snowdrops, so much rain that some of the petals have become translucent. Never seen such a marked effect before. Not quite like Diphylleia grayi (the 'skeleton flower') but getting there. #garden #photography #macro

macro photo of a single young flower of Leucojum vernum, the spring snowflake. The flower has raindrops all over it. The flower fills the frame but in reality is about an inch from top to bottom. The upper part of the flower is almost a globe, with the lower part elongating down into claw-like petals. The tips of the petals are yellow-green, the rest of the flower is white, and has become translucent.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A couple from the garden. Crocus tommasinianus albus, and a white Cyclamen coum. Bit of white and magenta. I've never seen the magenta speckling in the crocus so clearly before. #garden #photography #nature

colour photo of a cyclamen flower, very close up, almost becoming an abstract. The petals are white, with a vivid magenta blotch at the bottom.

Colour photo of a cluster of white crocus flowers. The petals are very lighly speckled with magenta, and have vivid yellow-orange stigmas.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

prompted me to dig out this Frankenstein's monster. Cut and shut a cheap 6x6. Thank goodness for gaffer tape. I found an add-on adapter lens for something or other that made a viewfinder. 1, 4, 7, 10 written all over to remind me of the wind-on numbers. Fair to say your build quality beats mine.

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Harry Smart @munross.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This feels a bit like Andrew M-W telling Maitlis he was perhaps too honourable in sticking with his pal Epstein. 'I'm sorry I was more loyal to my friend, who'd already been repeatedly shown to be a sleazeball, than to Epstein's victims'

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