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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

While USA is frozen in the ICE, France is drowning under heavy rains. So it's time to remember what migrants can bring to the beauty of a country. Sympetrum fonscolombii is one of the most migrating dragonflies, so, it is called the nomad dragonfly! #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #Dragonfly

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Parthenay is a medieval town with beautiful streets from the middle age, of course, but with its preserved hedges, sometimes, you feel about a knight of the seven kingdoms...

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

For #ForestFriday I'm coming back in the last days of last year when everything was frozen in the forest of Secondigny in french Poitou. #EastCoastKin

Panoramic view of frozen trees in a winter morning, there is also some smog so the branches are fading with the sky.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

When you're moving the camera during exposure, I think you can also change the colours, because accuracy don't have to apply in that case. But for identification of a plant or an animal, keep the true colour is necessary. So be creative and know your limits! Viennay quarry, Poitou, France. #ICM

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

#BlueBrewBooks This is the book I'm reading now, Féroce by Benoît Vincent. I don't think there is any translation for this French book. It is about the search of a forgotten book related to the apocalypse, in the same time, it's a naturalist journey. The next book will be the South, in English!

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

For #Stunday I have chosen an almost full moon from yesterday. The cold moon is tonight, but there are a lot of clouds now! A day before and a day after full moon, you have around 95 % of its light, and it's difficult to see a difference! #Scape #EastCoastKin

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For those who are preferring steady images, I've also taken some static pictures of my fallen giant. Perhaps I ought to join a vomit bag with my precedent photos, sorry. #EastCoastKin #ForestFriday

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For these images, I tried to make the fall of this tree visible with a movement of my camera during the exposure. In Poitou this winter we have a lot of wind, but this was the only time with speed around 100 km an hour (62 miles) #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #ICM

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It's too cold now, even on BlueSky! So I'm giving you a golden #CloseUp It's a protected species in the lily family, Gagea bohemica or the early star of Bethlehem. And it will be flowering soon, at the beginning of February. #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCloseUp

A yellow flower from the Lily familly, Gagea Bohemica or the early star of Bethlehem is set alight by one one the last rays of the sun. It is surrounded by its threadlike leaves and everything is bathed in the golden glow of light.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The beginning of year was very #Cold now in western France it seems to be an early spring, especially if our weather is compared with that's occurring now in the US! #EastCoastKin #BlueskyArtShow

A snowy landscape at the beginning of the day. In the front only a few twigs are emerging from heavy clods of snow. Behind there are some trees above a short henge of brambles. Between the branches of the tallest tree, the sun is visible surrounded by a lot of thin rays. The sun is still low above the horizon.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Always for the #BlueMonday and the #BlueSkyMonday in the same time, something less depressing. It's a blue-eyed hawker, Aeshna affinis, taken in the moor of le Bourdet in French Marais Poitevin. #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

A blue Dragonfly is flying in a blurry landscape of blue sky, white clouds and green vegetation.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This day is told the to be the most boring day in the year, the "Blue Monday". To stay in the mood, lets discover a winter morning at Parthenay in french Poitou along the river le Thouet. #BlueMonday #Scape

A river landscape surrounded by trees. Almost everything is blue or dark in this image, except some rocks almost white at the bottom right. The atmosphere is dull and foggy, early in the morning.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Frozen weather is finished for now in Western France.Anyway, I kept a lot of images from this period. And the end of the month could be very cold again, so, be patient !

A lake in the cold in the morning the shore on the right is covered with hoarfrost with also some turfs totally white, even one in the water surrounded by ice. On the left most of the water is not frozen except in the back of the image. After the shore there are a lot of trees with a clear reflection on the watered left of the image.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Through the magical portal. Forêt de Secondigny, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou, France. #EastCoastKin #Scape #ForestFriday #ICM

A small tree has been curbed by the wind and is blocked by other trees forming a part of a circle several meters above the ground. On the ground another fallen branch is completing the vertical circle. Intentional Camera Movement creates a blurry impression as if you're crossing through a magical portal towards another place or dimension.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

After Christmas the weather was very cold in France, that was also the case on January the first when I spent the morning in a botanical garden in Poitiers, France.

Dried Sequoia leaves cast in a frozen pound. There are some cracks in the ice and a small part is inclined above the horizontal surface. The dominant colour of the ice is dark.

A lonely tree leaf is cast in the surface of a frozen pound. The dominant colour of the ice is between blue and black. There are some bubbles just below the surface.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

And now, the view from the ruined house of 1947 I've just posted. It's near Parthenay in Poitou, France. #EastCoastKin #Stunday

A panoramic view of a meadow in the snow. On the left there is a well opening the scene towards a ruined garden shed covered by ivy and finally big trees in the back. The sky is grey and cloudy.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is the house of my dream, "mon coup de coeur." It is a small farm built in 1947. To have inscribed the date tells it was a huge moment in the life of his builder. What was his life ? There's such a house in Capra's Its a wonderful life. #EastCoastKin #Stunday

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"And whose beauty was more than human. But where are the snows of yesteryear?" "Qui beauté eut trop plus qu’humaine ? Mais où sont les neiges d’antan !" François Villon 1458 Parthenay, Poitou, France 6 janvier 2026

A meadow covered by the snow in the morning. The sky is blue except near the horizon covered by a golden mist. There are some bare trees in the back. Most of the image is occupied by tussocks covered by snow forming a lot of small hills. Some stalks are emerging from them.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

In France, this year we have a "normal winter". That is to say in these times of global warming a winter that only arrives once in ten years! In about ten days we had a white Christmas, frozen lakes... That is perfect to wish you a happy new year! #EastCoastKin #Stunday

A lake, half frozen in the sunset. On the left, ice on the water is blocking the reflection of trees around the lake. On the right, the surface of the water is totally free.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

As a protection against the cold, but for many other reasons, it's important to stay together. So happy New Year Eve ! Parthenaise cows in the snow, December 25th 2025.

A landscape of snow along a hill. In the rear there are several trees with a line of brambles between them. there are some cows behind these brambles to get protected against the wind.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I wish you a merry Christmas and I hope you had it white. That was the case here in french Poitou. But it's just one event in an important trend of global warming!

A path between two fiels bordered by some trees. Most of the grass is covered by snow.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

On Saturday I finally succeeded in catching the fog! It was in Viennay, a small town in Poitou, France.

A black and white view of a lake. Most of the image is occupied by the sky, an empty zone between grey and white. On the bottom there is water. A lot of trees, some disappearing in the fog are around the lake. And on the right, there is a small island with a fallen tree in the middle.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This week I've run two times to catch the fog. Wednesday I missed it. But I took this image. It's near the lac du Cébron, in Poitou, France. And yesterday I succeeded to catch the fog, but that's another story... #EastCoastKin #Stunday

A line of tree in autumn. A lot of them are barren, except the last ones on the right which have still some brown leaves.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Cold supermoon, earlier this evening, Cébron lake in Deux-Sèvres, Poitou, France.

Full moon is rising between a lot of clouds in the evening sky.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

This weekend was quite foggy in the morning, you will see it soon... Anyway we had a great blue sky in the afternoon. Just before sunset was the perfect moment to take some pictures of cyclamens with my Helios 40. Happy #Stunday #EastCoastKin

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The lac du Cébron is always a place I can connect with nature: from time to time an osprey in fishing in winter, you can see about 30 species of dragonflies. Or you can also admire the #Scape ! #EastCoastKin #LongExposure #Lake

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A few days ago I was totally impressed by a shot in Andreï Tarkovsky's Stalker. It's a movie about a room that can fulfill all your desires. But to reach it you need to be guided by a stalker, because it is very dangerous. And there was a shot of rocs covered by moss... I've made something else.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Autumn has arrived with wind and rain. Anyway, we have colors, everything was son dry a few weeks ago ! And cyclamens are blossoming ! #Cyclamen #Helios40

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A few weeks we had some wind, with 50 miles an hour it was less than a tempest but for this lake in Poitou, it was huge ! Is it enough for #TidesOutTuesday ? #EastCoastKin

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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Reposting the Sept 8-14 art challenge cheat sheet with proper alt text NEW: #FlyDay on Fridays — flying creatures See comments for host list + extra info from hosts #ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #painting #drawing #ArtPrompts

Art Challenges: September 8–14

Monday, September 8
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)’
#ColorADay (#PinkMon)
#SleepySep (#HangingMobile)

Tuesday, September 9
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#TagTuesday (graffiti/street art)
#AnimalArtTuesday
#ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue)
#SleepySep (#dreams)

Wednesday, September 10
#WaterfallWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual)
#ColorADay (#RedWed)
#SleepySep (#pyjamas)

Thursday, September 11
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens (#vistas)
#ColorADay (#YellowThu)
#SleepySep (#MonsterUnderBed)

Friday, September 12
#scape (any kind of scape)
#FishyFriday
#ForestFriday
#FoodOnFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay (#BWFri)
#SleepySep (#WhiteNoise)

Saturday, September 13
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#GreenSat)
#BlueSkyArtShow (#home)
#SleepySep (#pillow)

Sunday, September 14
#Stunday (stunning)
#BNWmacro
#ColorADay (#OrangeSun)
#SelfPortraitSunday (#generations)*
#SleepySep (#snuggles)

ALL WEEK
#ArtYear (any art)
#ArtOfSelfPortraiture
#ClassicMono (monochrome)
#smArtist (purposeful art of any theme)
#AlphabetChallenge (#WeekKforKaraoke)**
#SensoryArt (#weather)

*Include elements that honor your
ancestry
**Caption with the title of a popular karaoke song

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

There an image I was thinking about during the moon eclipse. It was taken a century ago by Edward Steichen. It's a photo but the process, gum printing tends to drawing or even pastel. It is the pond Moonlight and the moon is rising above the horizon as in yesterday's eclipse #EdwardSteichen

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Yesterday's eclipse was very special because when the moon rose above the horizon, it was already full (for France). And with a sky partially cloudy, it was even more challenging! Anyway, I've taken a few pictures. #MoonEclipse

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I haven't posted something there for sometime, I was preparing a new radio programme for a local broadcast in Poitou, France. It is called "c'est beau la nature" something like nature is beautiful. So I've done videos to explore the universe of sound! But now it's autumn in August and it's #Stunday

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

When mayflies are going out of the water all at the same time, it's called manna in France. But here it's just a movement of my camera (ICM), playing with the light of the full moon above a lake in an old quarry. Anyway, I still want to call it manna and I hope you'll enjoy it for #Stunday #ICM

Light of the full moon dancing on the waves above a small lake in an old quarry.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Faces are changing, not the methods! today, it's the turn of Ukraine.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sorry, for #FoodOnFriday I can only give you a tiny, tiny, tiny fly! And this story: I was taking the picture of this small mullein with its yellow flowers. Just at this moment, a willow emerald damselfly - what a name! - wanted a place to eat her prey... And so she took my mullein! #EastCoastKin

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I had already something on my computer, some wooden drops an artist from Poitou, Jean Luc Rivault is sculpting. And in this time of heavy drought in France, with temperatures above 100°F for tomorrow, even a drop made of wood is stunning ! #Stunday #EastCoastKin #Sculpture #Helios40

Three drops sculpted in wood. Only the middle one is in focus and sharp. It's made in ebony.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It was at the end of the shower, the sun was beginning to appear but my clothes were already too damp so I've bought an ugly camo mackintosh! Sorry for that, here, it is not Fashion Friday... It is #ForestFriday And it's time for a #Scape

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Only one post today, a picture made with a soviet lens from 1966, the Helios 40. The Black and White versions are made with DxO Film Pack. #Barbedwire #OldPost #Helios40 #DxOFilmPack

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I was playing with herbs in the foreground to create this soft ambiance. But I've been unable to see the drama that was happening just in front of my eyes ! I've discovered it a few minutes ago on the screen of my computer. #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #PinkMon

A spider is sipping the body fluids of an insect just under the flower of a centaurea, a knapweed ? Herbs in the foreground are creating a blurry ambiance.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I have another image for #Stunday with these blossoming Chestnut trees from my small region in Poitou, in France : the Gâtine. #EastCoastKin #Chestnut #ICM #IntentionalCameraMovement

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

For #Stunday I have chosen this wonderful buck, I hope you'll appreciate it! How many tines does it have ? How could you describe its antlers ? #EastCoastKin

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

For this #Gratitude day on Bluesky I want to tell all my gratitude to my naturalist friends who helped me to discover and understand this beautiful world. #Blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

After my last picture, I thought I was compelled to show you a flower of Chestnut. This is a male one and bees are mad of it! But their honey is shit, totally, because bees are collecting aphids' shit, honeydew which is rich in sugar to make this honey! #Chestnut #Chestnuttree #Chestnutflower

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

At the beginning of the summer, I had a challenge: take photos of the flowering of chestnut trees. Because chestnuts have true flowers and you can always taste the delicious honey made with them. But, its Friday on Bluesky, so flowers will wait and you'll have #Scape instead ! #EastCoastKin

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NPR @npr.org · 29/07/2025

A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent chance of seeing some shooting stars.

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Don't wait for the Perseids in August — look for meteors this week

A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent chance of seeing some shooting stars.

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

For #MacroMonday an image from last summer : the southern Darter, Sympetrum meridionale. It was taken in the Landes de l'Hopiteau, a marshland in Poitou, France. #EastCoastKin #Macrophotography #Dragonfly #Sympetrum #Sympetrummeridionale #Southerndarter #Wetland

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"She climbed onto the flat roof of the shed to make a landscape portrait. I watched her framing up the beige ridge of clouds where my blue skies shaded into rust brown" Karen Russell the Antidote. And in this novel, the image is taken with a speedgraphic!

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Thierry Wattez @thierrywattez.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

My visit to a drying small lake brought something #Smooth for the #BlueSkyArtShow The Helios 40 is good for that ! I've got this old commie lens from 1966 for a few time and I like it now! This is a damselfly, the small emerald spreadwing. #Lestesvirens #Smallemeraldspreadwing #Helios40 #Damselfly

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