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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Saw this magical being on a woodland walk today. Just beautiful. Perhaps a pale tussock moth next.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seed collecting this morning

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Calendar art & design @janetomlinson.bsky.social. Jane: my late dad worked on the design/transfers/formula for the Johnson Brothers Eternal Beau sugar bowl you’ve featured. 1981 first appeared, re the wedding of Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer. It became one of the best-known dinnerware designs.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The first ‘letters to heaven’ memorial postbox appeared in December 2022, based on an idea by 9-year old Matilda Handy, to help with grief. ‘The bereaved are able to write letters, cards and messages to those they have lost and post them.’ . webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202504...

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Pre-digital U.K. nostalgia #cameras sarahcarolinephotography.com/blog This month’s find is a stylishly simple 1980s TRUPRINT, in-house design, photo wallet. It has a bit of an 80s video game/film title vibe, with the stereo bold lines and capital text. Spot the old dialling code pre ‘PHONEDAY’.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A big 14! (72 human) today ☺️. The last of the ‘senior’ years before ‘Super Senior’ status.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This month, it’s 90s nostalgia & the 35mm film revival, popular with Gen Z. A time before smartphones, when you could own a camera with no filters and no complex settings, to capture the ‘occasional chaos of real life on 35mm film’ (Dutchthrift). #photography sarahcarolinephotography.com/blog

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Flower burst and Beatriz González at the Barbican.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Helen Dunmore’s book ‘Exposure’ (2016, Windmill) set after WWII and into 1960, has a character with a Minox camera, invented in 1936 by Walter Zapp. It was used after 1945 by both East and West German intelligence agencies as well as British intelligence. sarahcarolinephotography.com/blog

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This month, I am hunting Golden Age and later crime fiction novels with a photography link. 1959’s ‘Answer in the Negative’ (2026, Penguin/The Mermaid Collection), with an affectionate foreword by @sophiehannah.bsky.social, features glass negatives, in use during the 1950s in Fleet Street.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Ewelme. Beautiful church in the Chilterns.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In a mind mix of Caroline Crampton’s Shedunnit podcast + blog research, I have been browsing my old detective fiction books. A rabbit hole brought me to the 1892 ‘detective book camera’, designed to look like a stack of books with a handle. sarahcarolinephotography.com/blog #cameras #photography

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The mini exhibition blend - Lynda Benglis Encounters: Giacometti @ the Barbican

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Beautiful art backdrops for the British Museum’s Samurai exhibition.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The 1947 Japanese Copal Co. camera light exposure meter. It helps the photographer in setting the correct exposure. Powered by a honeycomb shaped selenium cell which produces more or less electric power when exposed to more or less light. #cameras #photography sarahcarolinephotography.com/blog

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Photo Answers Magazine’s 1991 slide calculator. ‘IT’S A MINIATURE MARVEL’ they declared. It remains a helpful guide from the film era, on the cusp of the digital crossover. I think I was still using film in 1998/99 but many of us would soon experience our first digital compact #cameras #photography

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Exakta Photography book, 1955, by Jacob Deschin, has wonderful and whimsical suggestions for steadying your Exakta camera, with recommended stances perhaps worthy of spy training school. #photography #cameras #German-cameras sarahcarolinephotography.com/blog

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

#cameras #photography A Kodak Brownie Flash IV, 1957-1959, U.K. Featuring brown leatherette and gilt metal. Named after Palmer Cox’s 1890s fairy/goblin-like characters, based on grandma’s stories of English and Scottish mythology. sarahcarolinephotography.com/blog

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

In 1864, astronomer Admiral W. H. Smyth’s observations on the colours of stars was published in a book called Sidereal Chromatics. The cycle of celestial objects. (Beautiful postcard received today.)

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Villa Cavrois, a modernist pile 1929-1933 by architect (and 20s film set designer) Robert Mallet-Stevens; occupied during WWII; 1,840m squared of living space (!); bought by the French state in 2001 and restored by Centre des monuments nationaux.

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

l'illusion d'optique FELICE VARINI : ÉCLATS EN ÉCHOS

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A Bayswater estate time-slip

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Beautiful and serene contemporary craft at Japan House. Works in clay, glass, wood, leather, metal and bamboo. Simultaneously contemporary and ancient. What a calming, unusual and inspirational exhibition. www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/hya...

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

A much treasured and illuminating 2011 introduction by a SF Pier bookshop, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - time to revisit - and a serendipitous 2025 weekend find @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

A rose whose blooms change with the month

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SCJonesy @scjonesy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

First chapter in and I can ‘feel’ the neural pathways beginning to calm. A gently encouraging re-framing and taming for our whirling mind, with an interesting historical perspective. Perfect for this epoch, if you’re post loss and/or looking for reflection time. Thank you @brigidwd.bsky.social

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