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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm enjoying taking pictures again! #vivianmaier #reflection #b&wphotography

A black-and-white self-portrait taken in a convex traffic mirror mounted on a diagonally striped warning post. The rounded rectangular mirror shows a distorted reflection of a hedge-lined road, a stone wall, and a behatted photographer with a camera raised to his eye, warped by the mirror's curvature. Two dents make circular lens-like reflections in the lower right of the mirror image.

sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Six months in the making. I have just delivered the final version of my concert film to Murray. I will be sharing excerpts on social media once it has been approved.

Title page of a concert video showing the title: Murray Head à l'Olympia and the date: le 5 mars 2026

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The entrance to the governor's house at Fort Buoux in the Luberon

Black-and-white photograph looking up through the ruined entrance to the governor's house at Fort de Buoux, Provence. Weathered stone arches and walls frame a narrow arrow-slit window, with the broken top of a stone tower visible against the sky beyond.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We have a Mirabelle plum tree at the end of our garden, with which Mrs D uses to make jam. We got over 10kg from the tree; birds scoffed the rest.

A picture of hundreds Mirabelle plums backlit by the sun

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Colorado Provençal is an abandoned ochre mine It feels almost like another planet

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was at the checkout at Lidl when this happened. I can spend days preparing a picture then hours taking it then half a dry in post to achieve a result less interesting than this. [sighs]

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I put my phone in selfie mode and my cat took the pictures. OK, he rubbed his whiskers on the edge of my phone and photos were taken. He'll be wanting an instagram profile next...

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pics of Gordes, which sits on a rocky spur in the Luberon. The other pictures show the château and the backstreets.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A cyclist climbing towards Brantes in the Vaucluse

A man in cycling gear on a bicycle with a hilltop village in the background

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The same Roman bridge taken exactly one year apart

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The streets of Simiane-la-Rotonde

A backstreet of a hilltop village shows old wooden door and windows

An entrance to a house with stone steps it with golden sunlight

A narrow house with a balcony and semicircular patio lit with golden sunlight

Steps leading up through a village covered by branches and trees

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In this part of France, it's illegal to refuse a glass of beer or wine at lunchtime. As a law-abiding citizen I'm having a half of the local brew...

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Early morning impressions The sun rising just enough over the hills across the valley to glance the house we are staying in with warm light

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mrs D negotiates the staircase in the Ingres Bourdelle museum in Montauban.

A B&W picture of a square stairwell showing a woman in white descending

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A portrait I snapped earlier this summer at the music festival that took place in our village.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New bike! It's light, has an insane number of gears and cost me an arm and a leg.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I like how the cross melts into the tree which melts into the sky

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don't know where Charlie is, but I think I've found Liz Taylor. #eclipse

People gather on the beach at Hossegor to see the partial eclipse of the sun

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A recent event extinguished something childlike in me. I shared something with someone I thought a friend. True friends offer a safe space to share vulnerability. Not only did they betray my trust; they mocked me for having shared. Since this event, I have completely lost interest in photography.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last night's storm was magnificent! Rolling thunder and lightning were constant. Apparently, this is a Mesoscale Convective System where cloud cells roll overhead striking one another.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've found a crafty way of swimming 1.3km in seawater without ever being out of my depth! I just have to make sure to swim at high tide otherwise I'm sloshing around in mud!

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The streets of Bayonne early on a Sunday morning

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A beautiful 1st-century sculpture of Hermaphrodite in the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne. Myth has it that the son of Hermes and Aphrodite was seen bathing by nymph Salmacis. She fell in love and asked the gods that they never be separated, so they fused them into one being. #sculpture #marble #art

A white marble figure showing Hermaphrodite who was the fusion of a man and a nymph.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Three survivors of medieval Capbreton: the Maison du Rey (15th C), where Henri de Navarre, future Henri IV, stayed in 1583; and the timber-framed Maisons des Anglais, among the last traces of a once-thriving port at the Adour's old mouth. #Landes #History #Capbreton

Maison du Rey: Corner house with plain rendered stone ground floor and a jettied upper storey in red-painted timber framing with Saint Andrew's crosses, small-paned windows with red shutters, and a carved stone doorway. A plaque on the wall reads "Maison du Rey." 15th century, Capbreton; hosted Henri de Navarre, future Henri IV, in 1583.

Maison des Anglais: Half-timbered house with exposed brown cross-bracing over cream render, five shuttered windows along the upper floor, ground floor converted into a shopfront (estate agency) with modern glazing. Probably 16th century, Capbreton.

Maison des Anglais: White-rendered two-storey house with dark red-brown timber framing in cross-brace pattern, upper floor jettied out on carved corbels, shuttered window flanked by a decorative wrought-iron grille below. Probably 16th century; now houses the Maison de l'Oralité et du Patrimoine, Capbreton.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And there'll be no saucy selfies coming from this phone...

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

OK, this brings to an end my series on cows... for now! It has merely whetted my appetite as my fascination has only deepened.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A bull and his babe. I watched for a while. They were inseparable. Occasionally, she would lift her tail so he could sniff her gear. This is bovine foreplay. As she approaches oestrus, she releases pheromones. An organ in his mouth detects her cycle days before she is ready to be mounted. He waits!

A well-hung bull and a cow stand side by side. He is tending her. He stands close by, so no other bull can approach while she approaches oestrus and can be mounted.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There is a herd of Charolais in a field I drive through to buy bread. I finally got around to taking pics. Unfortunately, I got a wall of rear ends. Apparently, cows have a very distinct hierarchy and naturally tend to look the same way. There are "friendships' as certain cows always graze together.

A black and white picture of a group of cows all looking away from the camera

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I took these this evening, looking west. That is Fontainebleau in the foreground. The fire is actually several kilometres beyond, but it looks dangerously close.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A friend filmed this today. This Canadair scoops up 6000 litres of water from the Seine to dump on the fire. It is incredibly dangerous work as they fly with no margin for error. The pilots are absolute heroes.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The fire that has ravaged over 1000 hectares of forest nearby is still raging. It is about 12km from where I live on the other side of Fontainebleau.

A road lined with trees leads to a huge mass of smoke from a burning forest.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

With friends staying the weekend, where better to have Sunday lunch but in the shade of our Magnolia tree.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

These are members of rival nautical jousting teams during La Fete de La Musique in the main square in Sète.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just after sunset on the longest day of the year overlooking the Étang de Thau.

Clouds in the sky shortly after sunset are lit up with a deep orange that is reflected in the calm water of a seawater lake with the silhouette of of moored sailing skiff to the left

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Another bridge in Sète. This is a simple bridge with curved sides over a canal that is clad with stainless steel, which provides many reflections to play with.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The Pont Sadi Carnot in Sète shot with my 12mm so that it is turned into a sculpture.

The metalwork of a bascule bridge in set that is in the open position

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I saw these very stylish and elegant women at the café outside the market in Sète. I took some pictures with my 70-200mm. The next day I saw them again, yet this time I asked them if I might take their pictures. They agreed. I love exchanges like this.

Two stylish women sitting outside a cafe on a sunny day.

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I shimmer I glimmer and soon a swimmer

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sebadee @sebadee.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My nomination for the ugliest church in Christendom

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