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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Train station coffee. Another very busy week ahead, and it is starting to feel cold in the mornings. I'm going to need to cheer up, or it is going to be a very long winter.

"Refresh - freshly made to go" black coffee cup.

The owner feels neither refreshed, nor ready to go anywhere, but at least the cup is black.

In the background is an out of focus Newark station platform.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gorgeous day for an open day at the University of Lincoln's Brayford Pool campus. If you are visiting us today, make sure you come and say hello! We are all based out of the Ross Lucas Medical Sciences building, and we would love to chat to you!

Lincoln Medical School building, reflected in the water.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looking a little autumnal out there, but there is still beauty even as the days grow shorter and colder. These were all taken with a Canon 10D from 2003 and a 28mm lens from the 90s. Cropped but otherwise unaltered. You don't need new gear to see the beauty of the world. #photography

Red Admiral butterfly, wings open, against a green background.

Reflection of a blue sky and white clouds in the mill pond, with silhouetted trees in the foreground of the reflection.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mixed fruit crumble and ice cream. All your major food groups are covered. Probably.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Walk at sunrise with the dogs, earlier in the week. Phone #photography, because the best camera is the one you have with you.

Orange, red and pink sunrise over silhouetted trees. Pinky grey clouds overhead.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Disappointing result, even if Spurs were clearly the better team today. As my brother-in-law wrote in his article for the Mail after the game: "Alas, they would struggle to hit a barn door from five yards." Gonna have to score a goal at some point, gents, or it isn't going to end well. #COYS

View from our seats at the Spurs stadium.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My kids didn't want what I had planned to cook, so I made something completely different. Chicken pesto pasta thing, with some cherry tomatoes, a little garlic and a splash of white wine, and then topped with some parmesan. 20 minutes, start to finish. I really should cook like this more often.

Chicken, salt and pepper, chopped cherry tomatoes, pasta, pesto, white wine, oil.

Out of shot is a clove of garlic.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New phone, and what is likely to be one of the last of this season's butterflies. Pixel 11 Pro. Not a bad point and shoot. #photography

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Eiffel Tower is quite striking from Trocadéro. I also quite like that this was taken with probably my oldest lens, a Saitex 28mm, which was a gift from a friend I made on the bird app, Dr Ollie Burton. I always take this lens on holiday. I had it mounted on my A7 ii this week. #photography

Eiffel tower in the golden hour before sun set.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you are at a loss for what to do with a half hour, and your floors seem dry, and your house smells alright, might I recommend bathing two puppies? It will pass the time, wet the floor, and introduce a new smell to your life. Sony A7ii, cheap Tamron 35mm lens. #photography

Black puppy drying in a green towel, in the arms of a tolerant obstetrician.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Baked for the first time in a while. White, spelt, some needlessly pretentious extra virgin olive oil. Obligatory loaf photo. Sony A7 ii, adapted 50mm canon FD lens. #photography #baking #bakingphotography #photographybaking

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This weekend is Y Not festival. I am not there. I am working. 15 years ago, my band played that festival. We also supported some up and coming bands. We never had any momentum. It was never going anywhere but it was awesome. I miss the noise and the people. I miss the youth and optimism of it all.

"Tribute to Nordberg" play the Allotment stage at Y Not festival, Saturday 6th August, 2011.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Quite like this photo. Just as the sun was setting, with a little unintentional aesthetically pleasing motion blur. TG-7 #photography

Tolerating obstetrician walking away from me in a very dry wheat field. Dark dress, green hedges to her right. Blue and white sky above.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sun set in Kirklington. It is beautiful out there, if you look up. Night folks. OM TG7 #photography

Dark blue sky as the sun sets, turning amber the closer you get to the right of the horizon. Diagonal striped clouds, and silhouetted foreground.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Lines of wheat at opposite ends of the day. A tale of two dog walks, through the same field. OM TG7 #photography

Morning. Golden field of wheat under a blue sky with scattered white clouds. Few green trees along the horizon.

Evening. Dark field of wheat under a blue purple sky with few clouds. Few dark green trees along the horizon.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have juat discovered that @nightsswimming.bsky.social have a presence on here. After seeing them at a recent festival, they have rapidly become one of my favourite bands. Follow them, stream their stuff, buy merch etc. They are awesome.

The band Night Swimming, photographed on the 2000 Trees Festival forest stage.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Same Red Admiral visited my purple buddleia again this morning. I was glad of him today. I'm finding the world a little overwhelming, and there is something reassuring about the fact that even butterflies have a routine. Sony A100, Minolta "beercan" #photography

Old Red Admiral butterfly, with ragged wings, perched on a purple buddleia flower stalk.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Gone a year. It has passed quickly. I've been too busy, with too much to do to really process anything. It always seems that something is more important than my own grief. Perhaps I have engineered it that way. Miss you, dude.

My old day, in a straw hat in a pub in Cornwall. Big white bushy beard.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Butterflies are awesome. Look how much wing is missing from this dude, and he can still fly and glide. He really has been around hasn't he? I wonder what stories this butterfly might tell about his journey. Sony A100, Minolta "beercan". #photography

Red Admiral butterfly on a purple buddleia. Wings open, to show all the frayed edges and missing chunks from a lifetime of adventure.

Red Admiral butterfly on a purple buddleia, facing towards the camera.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

These images show the compromises you have to make with old gear. I don't go beyond ISO 400 with this camera, so this is shot at F/4. I therefore can't get all of him in focus. Shutter 1/100s, so he had to be still. Here is a wing flappy action shot to illustrate the point. #photography

Red Admiral butterfly on a purple buddleia branch. Fore-wings appear as streaks of motion.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This old fella has been around. His wings are frayed, and there are chunks of him missing. He is still full of life though, still enjoying the buddleia and the shade under a cherry tree. Me too, dude. Taken with a camera and lens much older than him. Sony A100, Minolta "beercan" #photography

Old Red Admiral butterfly, perched on a purple buddleia branch.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I have quite a few photos to go through from this year's @2000trees.bsky.social, but there won't be many that top this one. This is Battlesnake, doing a silent headphone disco set on the Forest stage around midnight. They were absolutely epic. #BacklitHorns #photography

Forest stage, with black sky above it. Sea of people in front all wearing headphones glowing blue to indicate they are all on the stage channel. Battlesnake stand with arms raised at the end of the song, backlit by stage lights, illuminating the singer's horned helmet. In the foreground an attendee raises a horns hand gesture, also illuminated by the stage lights.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The folds and the patterns on their wings really are quite something. They are beautiful creatures. #photography #butterflies

Upside down Peacock butterfly, wings wide open, on a cluster of buddleia flowers.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Peacock butterflies have definitely found my buddleia. There are dozens of them on there this morning. The light was good, so I used an older camera. Sony A100, and a Minolta "beercan" lens. #photography

Peacock butterfly with its wings outstretched, sitting on a cluster of buddleia flowers.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

To prove the point, here is the ohoto taken immediately before the one above, where the Small Tort is being photobombed... by a Red Admiral. #photography

Small Tortoiseshell perched on a buddleia, with a Red Admiral having just landed in front of it and then opened its wings.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Another day, another new butterfly in the Fleming garden. Hot on the heels of this week's Peacocks, today I spotted our first Small Tortoiseshell. The Red Admirals continue to be everywhere, including landing on me when I am out there with my cameras. 90D, long end of a cheap zoom. #photography

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly perched on a buddleia.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

As promised, an almost identical image, taken with a "proper" camera. My Canon 7D, from 2009. #photography

An almost identical image to the first one. Just after sun set at West Kirby Marine Lake, with grey blue sky above, and restless grey blue water below.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Portrait of the photographer, across the same field. #photography

Shadow of the photographer, projected onto a wheat field, with a tree line along the horizon. Blue sky and white clouds above.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Nice out there tonight. After using cameras from 2006 for a couple of weeks, using one from 2009 feels like hilarious luxury. It is funny how quickly the tech and the user experience improved in that era. Canon 7D, and wide end of an 18-135 lens. #photography

Wheat field, and tree line along the horizon. Blue sky and white clouds.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

...and this one, a younger specimen, chilling on a raspberry bush.

Red Admiral, with wings open wide in the sun, on a raspberry leaf.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Case in point, this old fella on one of my apple trees. I suspect the reason for all the missing bits of wing is that he has NO fear. To take this photo, I was basically right on top of him. Sony A100, Minolta "beercan" lens. #photography

Red Admiral butterfly with shredded wings rests on a leaf in the sun.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You learn a lot about butterflies, by trying to photograph them. They have personality. Red Admirals are tarts. They pose with their wings wide open. They want to be photographed. Peacocks are shy. They need to get used to you, or they fly away. Sony A100, Minolta "beercan" lens. #photography

Peacock butterfly on a buddleia. Wings open in the sunlight.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

West Kirby Marine Lake, just as the sun set. It is beautiful here. We scattered dad's ashes in the sand banks, so here is where he will be. Phone #photography, although I did also take a couple with my 7D.

Grey sky, and grey blue water, with a streak of amber across the horizon. North Wales on the left, both eyes of Hilbre Island on the right.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This dragonfly seems to also quite like the cherry tree. Also Sony A100 and Minolta beercan. #photography

Dragonfly perched on a twig. Out of focus red cherries hand from a near branch in the background.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The buddleia in my garden always brings the butterflies. I love it when we get to this time of year and they start to appear. This was taken with a Sony A100 from 2006, and a Minolta "beercan" 70-210, from 1985. I enjoy getting images out of old equipment. #photography

Red admiral butterfly perched on a new buddleia flower stalk, wings partly folded.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Went for a walk this morning. Expecting some much needed rain, so took my TG-7 waterproof camera. The bugs are out in force. It did indeed rain. #photography

Ribglet butterfly perched on a blackberry flower.

Meadow brown butterfly perched on a blackberry flower.

Hoverfly perched on a blackberry flower.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Pippin watches proceedings from a safe spot, underneath a camping chair. Sony A7 ii, adapted Canon 50mm FD mount lens #photography

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sun sets behind one of my favourite trees. Night, everyone. Sony A7 ii, adapted Canon FD 50mm lens #photography

Blue and amber sky, white clouds. Silhouetted foreground, with a single tree dead centre, and the glow of the sun just dropping below the horizon behind it.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A walk, at the end of a hot day. There is a nice breeze out there now. Sony A7 ii, adapted 28mm Tokina manual focus lens #photography

Blue sky, a little white cloud. Green field. Sun approaching the horizon to the right of the image.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Went for a walk first thing. This was taken at 0924, the exact moment of the solstice. The most sunward point of the longest day. At this point, my corner of the northern hemisphere was pointed towards the sun at the greatest angle that it will be this year. 6D, 28-135 IS USM. #photography

Blue sky, white clouds, trees along the horizon. Yellow green fields of wheat in the foreground.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day to anyone out there it means anything to. I am very thoughtful. I lost my dad last summer, and this is my first Father's Day without him. I hope my teenage children will emerge at some point. To me, it was only yesterday they looked like this. Be wary of time, folks. It passes.

My bearded old dad, resplendent in a blue and green hat, complete the tassels, with a not quite matching scarf, on a snowing day.

I miss you, man. I didn't appreciate you enough at the time.

A blonde toddler with her hair in bunches, holding a pink balloon. A baby, under one, sits on the vinyl floor of a kitchen next to her. A tiny puppy looks at both. Best of friends.

I miss you three too, even though you are still here.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Out with the dogs just after sunset. Phone photography, sadly. You try holding an actual camera while holding THREE leads!

Green field, with a path across it. Trees along the horizon, and blue, pink and amber cloudy sky above.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I feel privileged to have lived so close to Sherwood Forest for the last decade, and to have seen the Major Oak in full foliage so many times, in the last ten years of its 1000 year life. It feels like the passing of an old friend to know it is gone. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Three red oak leaves, from the autumn of the life of a tree, against an out of focus blue sky and bare branches.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I quite like clouds. An entirely blue sky is a boring sky. Taking a wide angle Tokina lens out for a spin. I got this for £19 on ebay. Seems sharp enough. 28mm F/2.8 FD mount, adapted onto my full frame Sony A7 ii. #photography

Green field, trees along the horizon, dog walkers on the overgrown path.

Blue sky with copious white and grey clouds.

Shadows lifted slightly because it was overcast.

Green field with rows of wheat visible as neat lines. Trees along the horizon, and wild flowers and long grass on the overgrown path.

Blue sky with copious white and grey clouds.

Shadows lifted slightly because it was overcast.

Green field with rows of wheat visible as neat lines. Trees and hedges along the horizon.

Blue sky with copious white and grey clouds.

Shadows lifted slightly because it was overcast.

Green field with rows of wheat visible as neat lines. Trees along the horizon. Furrows of tractor lines create a cross within the field.

Blue sky with copious white and grey clouds.

Shadows lifted slightly because it was overcast.

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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Gorgeous evening tonight. 80D, wide end of a Sigma superzoom lens. #photography

Silhouetted foreground, few trees along the horizon, including one dead centre. Amber rays of sunlight to the right of the horizon from the setting sun. Clouds above, and blue grey skies above that.

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