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Rachel Burch

@rachelburch.bsky.social

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Deeply unwell, deeply mossy, wheelchair user, Dartmoor photographer, old book lover and hedgehog whisperer. 🦔🦼📖 have been a photographer for 35 years. thegreenlanesshimmer.etsy.com

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 7h

Beeches on Plasterdown yesterday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

A row of beech trees in early autumn sun

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 17h

Tiny toadstool in Grenofen woods yesterday #Dartmoor #Devon #moss #photography

Small toadstall and green moss.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Red Devon cow having a massage against a bracken bale today, Plasterdown, near Tavistock. The bracken is baled and used as animal bedding. #Dartmoor, #Devon #photograpy

A red devon cow runs against a bracken bale.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I used my new lens (24-85mm) today and my new tripod ( bought in June but have been too unwell to use it). Picture taken in Grenofen woods. The lens will make the most of my large full frame sensor on my Nikon D850.

Me and my camera

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saddle bridge near Combestone tor last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

A twisty willow and a bridge .

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome October, paintings by Edith Holden, Edwardian naturalist.

Two books open at a kingfisher paint if and a fly agarics

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Farewell September, pictures taken this month, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography Clockwise from left, gossamer at saddle bridge, Denham bridge, hawthorn near Whitchurch down, calf at Hexworthy, Holloway path, Walkhampton, gossamer and reflection, Huckworthy bridge.

A square collage of photos with gossamer, ancient paths and bridges.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A real Autumnal #Dartmoor photo, longash leat at Fourwinds in late October. #Devon #photography

A musty photo of a stream across Moreland toward beech trees.

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Rael571 @rael571.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I order one of these every year & can confirm that it's great quality and the photos are gorgeous. 💚

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How Mabel’s day started and finished…. #cats

A collage with two photos one with a cat awaiting breakfast the one below a cat asleep with her gob open..

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come on all your lefties liberals a disabled wheelchair user who’s so unwell she haven’t travelled more than 30 miles away from home in 13 years raising money for her local food bank. Shares please. Thank you. That’s if this site isn’t having a crash 🤣.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s the final selection of my photos for my 2027 Dartmoor calendar, I chose the December picture, frosty Tavistock not on Dartmoor, but I do live here ..£16 each inc postage available from me direct via PayPal or bank transfer or my Etsy shop. All profits to Tavistock food bank. only 50.

Back of calendar with photos

Leat near Princetown cover

Meavy page

Frosty Tavistock

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lane and beeches at Cator, #Dartmoor #Devon February 2024 #photography #blackandwhite

Beeches along a rural lane in a photograph.

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cat: No no you don’t exist no no Argghhh spikes up me bum ..

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The O brook flows past thick haircap moss and under willows and rowans near Saddle bridge, Combestone tor last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brook

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Steve is having a really bad time recently, mourning the loss of his mobility and the illness has lasted 40 years, and the fact he’ll never have a career or walk again. But today he had lunch with a bloke he meets randomly in the and his dog called Reg and that cheered him up The dog loves him

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hawthorns above Huccaby last week, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

Hawthorn trees at an angle and a rural lane.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pictures taken this week at Huccaby and Hexworthy, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

A red calf and hawthorn tree

Huccaby bridge

Gossamer and lichen

O brook

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All visiting hedgehogs, two adults and two young ones doing ok, #hedgehogs

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

River Dart and oaks at Huccaby this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

Rocks and river under oaks.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Harvest moon, Samuel Palmer 1833. Farewell. Summer, until next year. Time for the beauty of fading.

An early 19th century oil painting with workers harvesting corn under a full moon the plough constellation invisible to the right.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

River Dart at Huccaby this week, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some of my Talwin Morris designed art nouveau era books. Morris (18865-1911) was employed by Blackie as chief designer. He knew R and M Mackintosh well. #artnouvrau #books

Four Morris designed covers. Classic poetry and fiction and a gardening handbook.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hexworthy/ Huccaby bridge this week, Dartmoor. Devon.

A bridge with green reflections underneath.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Calf and wind blown hawthorn tree above Hexworthy on Tuesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. It was wonderful to be so high, you could see the sky through the gaps in the stone walls. ☺️ #photography

A red Devon calf walks towards a hawthorn tree on a moorland hilltop.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

God this is hard .. I made my grandparents an atrocious letter rack out of a cereal box with wrapping paper stuck to it .. it was still being used with letters in when the house was cleared 🤣. This Blake 7 bracelet is beyond me now …

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ancient and beautiful amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows three glossy, bright orange, drop-shaped pieces of amber arranged in a row against a dark background in a museum display case. Each piece of amber is decorated with finely incised patterns. The smalleest piece on the left is decorated with a comb motif- three horizontal lines with short vertical lines on top. The largest piece in the middle has a patchwork of alternating incised rectangles, and the piece on the right has four evenly spaced horizontal rows a Ross the surface made up of drilled pits. Each piece of amber has a hole at the top suggesting it was attached to a cord to be worn as jewellery or suspended.

Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic'. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.

These pieces are part of the collections of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. They are currently on loan at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany for the ‘Shamaness’ temporary exhibition.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The O Brook and saddle bridge near Combestone tor on Tuesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don’t know if just my local Robin but the robin’s song is very clear recently 🙂.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oak and spider web on the banks of the Dart at Huccaby on Tuesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

Oak and spider web on the banks of the Dart river at Huccaby on Tuesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me holding a new lens for my camera today … note the painkillers thats are always by my side these days ☺️. Lens 24-85mm first proper full frame one for my D850.

Me holding a new lens for my camera today … note the painkillers thats are always by my side these days ☺️.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The O brook (the stream that runs under saddle bridge), yesterday, a lovely wild spot near Combestone tor, Dartmoor, Devon. The area is the site of a rare dragon folklore story on #Dartmoor … #Devon #photography

Twisty willows over a wild stream

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have to say I’m getting pretty sick of seeing AI scripts The ones written like this. Ironically normally speaking softly in a tone about stone circles, owls and ravens. Often mentioning the word Quietly Whilst actually Adhering to the norms of capitalism. It really is Sickening.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Picture, gossamer and lichen willow branch at Saddle bridge yesterday, Dartmoor. Happy Autumn Equinox!

Gossamer on lichened willow branch

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sun’s reflection on water seen through a spiders web.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can I just say, please let me post innocuous videos and photos of Devon and don’t try to be ‘on it’ by insinuating it’s all completely fucked. (The environment) I know life’s and the world isn’t perfect. I’ve an incurable chronic illness I don’t live in your world.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s been a beautiful day upon #Dartmoor, river Dart at Huccaby this afternoon. #Devon #photography

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The autumn equinox is tomorrow at 1am people have been saying happy equinox for three days now. 🤣 It can be any day between the 19th and 23rd of September it changes every year.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A pony grazes on Knowle Down near Walkhampton a couple of Septembers ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

A brown pony grazes in front of a changing landscape.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am choosing the November picture for my 2027 #Dartmoor #Devon charity calendar, all profits to Tavistock food bank Pew Tor Lichen at Dunnabridge pound Devonport leat near Whiteworks, Princetown Which one ? #photography

Pew tor and autumnal light

Beard lichen at Dunnabridge pound

Devonport leat on open moors

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I love this video of Bellever in November 2024 I found. It was very cold with a light dusting of frost, there was a beautiful mist over the river and that night snow fell. #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hedgehog update, all four or five or god knows how many doing well including new tiny ones. I put some new straw in the hog houses as but no , not good enough, and one’s building her nest elsewhere in my garden. #hedgehogs

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Photos taken near Whitchurch Down this week, not spectacular but I did feel really rough and did get out for a bit so that’s a win 🙂, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

A collage of photos including alders streams hawthorns and sheep.

Reposted by Rachel Burch

Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good morning - I hope you slept like a fig-stuffed binturong - I'm starting with ‘Park in Autumn (detail)’, Michał Gorstkin-Wywiórski, oil on canvas, 1900. Have a splendid Available as a single greetings card, or as part of the Autumn Collection No. 3. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/autu...

A figure and a hound walk down and avenue of trees, the ground littered with golden leaves.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rowan berries and gate near Cator, a couple of Septembers ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography

A Rowan tree with berries hangs over a gate and a stone wall.

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Twisty hawthorns near Whitchurch Down on Wednesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. Colour and black and white version I liked the sculptural branches of these tress and thought it would interesting in black and white as well. #photography

Colour version of sculptural hawthorns and bracken

Black and white version with slight glow.

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Old UK Print Ads @oldukprintads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sep 1943: Verichrome Film ad from Kodak «KODAK FILM is in the skies helping to make vital maps quickly available»

This is an advertisement for Kodak film that emphasizes its importance in supporting war efforts. It shows two people examining aerial photographs, which are being used to create maps. The ad highlights the role of Kodak film in taking the photographs required to make these vital maps and acknowledges that this work is the reason for the occasional difficulty in acquiring Kodak film.

KODAK FILM
is in the skies
helping to make vital maps
quickly available

Taking the photographs which speed the
making of our maps is but one of the
countless war jobs on which Kodak film is
engaged. If you have difficulty in getting a
spaol, remember it is because so much Kodak
film is doing vital work-helping to bring
peace (and peace-time snaps) back to reality.
Kodak Limited, Kodak House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2
F.7

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Taviton brook near Whitchurch Down on Wednesday, #Dartmoor, #Devon. It was used on the construction of the short lived mine wheal surprise, 1851-6. The word Wheal describes mine shafts comes from the Cornish language word hwel, which translates directly to mine or mine workings. #photography

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This arrived today, Fairy tales illustrated by Jan Pienkowski, my Aunt bought me a mini set of books which I still have..

A witch with bats

A witches house

Snow White on her bed

Cover red embossed