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Exiled ancient Brit engineer living amongst horse carts and shoofly pies; conduit for creatives' dreams, explorer of edge cases, disciple of scale, envoy of the backend All views and opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer

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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 23m
Hint at machinery of yesteryear. The plague thanking a local landowner giving their land up for Samuel S Lewis State Park, on the high ground known as Mt Pisgah, south of York in PA; fixed to a pair of faux millstones. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery #ECK
Pair of millstones atop Samuel S Lewis State Park, and the plague fastened to them detailing the land bequeathed to the state that helped with the park's foundation. Set amidst long grass with blurred trees behind
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 53m
Today Helen @helenbennett.bsky.social is looking for the #BestBeaks and #YellowElements for #BirdOfTheDay. I'm somewhat broken, having grown up among the herring gulls and terns of the UK's southern coasts; I find the Susquehanna's ring-billed gulls 'exotic' 🤪 #Birds #Photography #ECK 🦉🐦📷
A ring-billed gull struts along the path at Long Level along the Susquehanna in York County, PA. While common around here, I love them in the winter months, where their plumage with wings outstretched can be a delight
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 1h
Happy Friday, and a wave to the F1 crowd beneath the iconic umbrella at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia ... for the Bahrain Grand Prix Going back a year for today's #scape, with a view through the morning haze from Samuel Lewis State Park #Photography #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #ECK
Looing east across the high school and fields below York County's Mount Pisgah in the Samuel S Lewis State Park, down to the Susquehanna, and across into Lancaster County on a morning where a touch of haze and mist clung to the low lying land, slicing and dicing the landscape into layers. Rendered in black and white, with a sky graduating up into darkness
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Dave Oy Green @misteroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@atlanticbirding.bsky.social has chosen today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme which is: #Black&White; any shot in black and white. 'Patience' #heron #BlackAndwhite #monochrome #patience #reflection
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 23h
A #ClassicMono avian delight today thanks to the #Black&White theme for #BirdOfTheDay as chosen by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social in the form of one of Kiwanis' roost building great egrets earlier in the year. #Photography #Birds #Nature #ECK
Great egret with twig in its wing outstretched angelically flies overhead against a cloudless sky. Roost building at Kiwanis Lake in the suburbs of York, PA back in March
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 23h
Welcome to Thursday! Some nightmare fuel for OSHA and Health and Safety inspectors. Vintage farm machinery, great reference for horror props, handy for things like Night of the Living Dead, which premiered today in 1968 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery #ECK
Vintage tow-able saw mill still functional amidst a pile of shavings and sawdust, green paintwork, red spoked wheels and center of the large exposed circular saw blade prominent high and in the center of the machine. Designed to be driven by a belt, from a traction or stationary engine.
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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lovely closeup portrait shot I took of a Great Grey Owl for todays #BirdOfTheDay which is #BlackandWhite #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography
Great Grey Owl
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
A few takes on the latest @rjrock.bsky.social #PostProcess challenge, finding #silence in noisy twilight. Not convinced any of my attempts are great, but what does stand out, the amazing detail captured in the Leica's image. Crops and #ClassicMono cuts abound for me. #ECK #PostProcess
Cropping in on the town in the image, with its church on the right and stepped horizon climbing left to right and a tall traditional roofed alpine style building with 4 stories in the center. Moved the contrast to be a little softer, and forcing the sky/land divide to graduate, and a little rotation to prevent the church looking askew. All in black and whiteLooking down the valley on the left of the image, with its distant ranges of hills. Reducing some of the foreground contrast, boosting the distant hills to make them better layers, with some gentle retouching of some bright lights that would steal attention. Left in gentle near golden hour tonesLooking to the mountain above the town in the image, and its tree line climbing as the horizon from left to right; forcing it into silhouette against the dramatic sky, lowering that sky drama a little and moving everything into blues, with just a touch of clear sky on the bottom left.Minimal amount of cropping on the base image, just the immediate foreground removed, preserving a few of the plants. Lot of dodging and burning in black and white to try to preserve the composition but removing some of the dissonant elements by moving it all black and white, toning down the cloud drama, toning down the town highlights, bringing up some of the structure in the bottom left valley and the hill above the town
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Hello Skynet my old friend...
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
No room for a regular steam tractor ... problem solved with this cut down beastie, complete with a vertical boiler. Just keep an oilcan handy. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachinery #ColorADay #RedWed
Shot of a 'sub-compact' steam tractor. Pint sized red painted chassis and a vertical black painted boiler, for those bijou spots in the farm that need something a little smaller. Taken at Williams Grove, PA earlier in the month
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
The Thunderbirds anniversary has me wistful. What today's artists can conjure in 3d is stunning, but for teenage me, the rockstars were the likes of Derek Meddings, Ray Harryhausen and Doug Trumbull, and visionaries like Jim Henson. Often wonder at my life's journey if I had stuck with SFX.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy Thunderbirds day and the best of model magic. No doubt sold out in seconds, this find from @rhapsodyangel.bsky.social (who incidentally, if you are are an Anderson or 21st Century Film fan ... you should follow even if your interests are not indestructible and red), but in case not ...
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Kari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. I love #CedarWaxwings, and I find the awkward teenage ones especially charming. This one sat in this spot and stuffed its face with every available berry. #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography
A young Cedar Waxwing, a brown bird with a streaky breast, a yellow tail tip, and a white eye mask, perches on a branch and tosses a bright red berry down its own throat.
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Ghost of 1 Billion Crabs @biggiecrabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Northern Mockingbird for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #BestOfTheMonth 🪶📷 #photography #birdphotography #ECK #canonr5mkii
A vertical photograph of a Northern Mockingbird perched on a slender, leafy green branch against a soft-focus green background, framed within a clean white border. Facing left in profile with its head turned slightly forward, the songbird displays grey upperparts, paler greyish-white underparts, dark wings with distinct white wingbars, and a long tail, along with a sharp, dark bill and a bright eye.

Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, SC
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Muttley @muttley63.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kingfisher, definitely my best shot this month. #BestOfTheMonth #BirdOfTheDay #Photography #wildlifephotography #nature #UKbirds
Kingfisher perched on the branch of a tree overhanging a river in the late summer sunshine.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Rough night, so will have to respond from the phone in response to Rob's @robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BestOfTheMonth. Dingy and damp on days I've been out, and our feathered friends have not been posing; bar these three synchronized sunset watchers. #Birds #ECK #Photography
Three ducks at the lakes edge watching the sun go down; mallards and domestics. What made them stand out, they stood in a line and the middle would lean down and drink, and as they raised their head, the outer two would lean down and drink, synchronously and in unison; repeatedly.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Busy work day with a new release going out, but just enough time to pop in and respond to Helen's @helenbennett.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BokehBirds, spoiled(?) by the arrival of an #AwkwardAvian photo-bombing cardinal ... typical males! Enjoy your Monday everyone! 🦉🐦📷
Sparrow seed searching in the short grass in William Kain park, York, PA when a male vivid red cardinal flies in from the left. Narrow depth of field, background dark blurred parkland. Taken in spring this year
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
"I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them" -- Charles de Lint #Photography #Stunday #ECK
A park bench amongst a sea of green grass
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Soggy Sunday but at least the current Nor'easter is sparing those of us inland. Today's #BirdOfTheDay shot in response to AB's @atlanticbirding.bsky.social themes of #airborne and #seabirds has this gull showing off its wonderful wing plumage as it prepares to land 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #ECK #Photography
Shot of a gull from behind as it comes in to land on Lake Redmond back in January; wings outstretched wide, black tips with chocolate tail tips and lines running along the backs of the wings, inches above the gently rippling waters
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dee Nickerson, contemporary UK painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #womensart
Painting of a landscape with a small female  figure walking amongst  bare trees and yellow fields
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Can't let today's #BlueSkyArtShow go by without revisiting a sunset snap from last year and the lovely #Lights atop our local 'burger garage'; ex-car repair shop repurposed as a burger joint with amazing artwork inside and this magical neon on the roof. #Photography #ECK #NeverEnoughNeon
Colorful neon sign atop Greer's burger garage. Colored glowing letters in red, blue and yellow amidst white trimmed rectangles and diamonds, topped with a yellow star; all set above a metal roof and dark red hues of the day's end
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Evening of wandering, peeking through a florist's window... #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLookingIn #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights
Neon script letters in glowing purple saying "You're ??? really pretty", seen through a florists window as I wandered past. The ??? is a partially obscured word I cannot make out now and my memory ... well, I'll leave it with Butterbur's explanation
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Humpty asks "What's behind the square window today?" A reference 99% of you are too young and from the wrong country to ever get, although notably ... original is in the London Science Museum's collection. (And yes ... I know its not a square ... sue me) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLookingIn #ECK
Window of a small boutique in downtown York, PA. Greenery adorns the inside on the left, top and right edges. A pot of pink and white small blooms is in the left of the window, a lilac cotton dress on the right, and a large metallic golden balloon in the shape of a 9 in the center.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Saturday salutations avian advocates and occasional ornithologists 👋 Backdrop of the #Green of the local baseball field, with its concrete wall providing a warm perch for this sparrow couple for Rob's #BirdOfTheDay themes 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #Photography #ECK #Pairs
Pair of sparrows atop a concrete wall, one laying down looking toward the camera, one looking into the blurred bokeh'd green baseball field behind
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
A little late evening mid-life crisis with its #Lights for today's #BlueSkyArtShow Inadvertent performance car shoot on a steamy summer evening last year on the banks of the Susquehanna #Photography #Corvette #ECK
White corvette tinged orange with the setting sun, HDR treatment to bring out its the reflections and chrome. Blue tinged windshield catching the blue setting sky. Orange indicator/cheek lights on
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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Alphabetchallenge #WeekLForLookingIn #UrbanGaze Looking Into an alleyway at Salts Mill Saltaire
A low angled black and white photo looking down a cobbled alleyway between two tall Victorian mill buildings at Saltaire on Sunday afternoon.
In the distance is the silhouetted figure of a man holding a small child walking away in the opposite direction
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Fresh and feeling that Friday feeling? In my case more a case of can't sleep. Anywho ... Rob is covering for Alan and looking for #Borbs for #BirdOfTheDay; something the local lake has plenty of ... until young children tire of ignoring the "don't feed the ducks" signs 😉 #Birds #ECK #Photography
Plump mallard on the side of Kiwanis Lake giving this mean non-bread bringer some side eye last week
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning folks, and a good luck shout out for the teams and drivers in Baku this week; always a favorite #F1 circuit. Helen would like to see #TheDivers for today's #BirdOfTheDay Here's an ever demonic looking horned grebe at Long Level on the Susquehanna 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #Photography #ECK
Not the sharpest image of a very wet looking horned grebe between dives at Long Level on the rippling blue Susquehanna River in York County, PA this spring. This bird spent so little time on the surface, I was glad to get any shot.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Welcome to a wet and wild Wednesday; on this day back in 1889 a card game company, Nintendo Koppai, was founded. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social is looking for #Raptors for today's #BirdOfTheDay; here's an masterful osprey entering the hover above Kiwanis Lake in PA 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #ECK #Photography
Osprey, wings spread wide, hovering in the cloudless skies above Kiwanis Lake, York, PA back in Spring.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Mentioned my cluttered 'cutting room floor' the other day, and all my bad images that get thrown, so for today's #BlueTue here's a peek at a failed experiment from the spring. Combining a bunch of long exposures old fashioned HDR style ... that didn't work 🫤 #Photography #ColorChallenge #ECK
Blended image of Lake Redmond from April this year; number of shots at different exposure levels then blended. Fine with the sky and water, but the gently moving foliage ... shudder ... very, um, Monet?

Clouded blue sky with the HDR combination bringing their relief and detail out, reflective gently rippling lake water, with a band of emerging reeds and cattails providing a band of yellow/green across the bottom third divider and very ... dotted ... treeline above
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome to Tuesday, the day of Mars for some. Its a soggy start here, made a little brighter by you all; aided by today's #BirdOfTheDay choice of Rob's being #Redheads, ever my kryptonite. This striking male example dating back to Lake Redmond in the spring 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #ECK #Photography
Male cardinal perching on a branch in amongst brush and bushes in William Kain park in York County, PA back in April this year. Bright red against a very grey/brown twiggy context; lit from above and to the right, as he looks from right to left
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” ― John Muir
A dirt road curves throught the wetlands with a single tree on the right. There are grasses along the left side of the road with water next to it.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
As someone with accessibility issues, Lancaster's Airshow is a nightmare. Parking in a ploughed cornfield half a mile away, non-ADA friendly trolley shuttle, long queues to then get in, with no shade and no seating. Not recommended for the non-able bodied ☹️
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An early morning shot from the perched island campsite on Lake Phoebe. #Photography #BWCA #MNStrong #FuckStauber
A photo of a fog-shrouded island with the sun rising behind it. The glowing fog and island reflects in the calm water.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Had a few questions about what camera I use, as I don't go into the tech stuff often. Its a small, light APS-C mirrorless camera made by #Fujifilm called the XT50. Friend of a friend got it for me as a gift for recovering some damaged wedding photos and for my random bad snapping, works a treat 😊
Fujifilm XT50 that I use (image sourced from https://www.tincheungonline.com.hk). Its small, allows me to change lenses - most of my shots of wildlife and blooms come from a Tamron 18-300mm lens; not the sharpest, but an incredibly flexible lens at a fraction of the price of the Fujinon glass. For low light and street work I tend to switch to a Viltrox 35mm prime, and another Viltrox 90mm prime for portrait work.

Well and truly a Fuji shooter atm, with an eye and hope on whatever and whenever Fuji announce the XT6, hopefully with dual card slots and better AF. 

That said if I ever end up pro/semi pro I might drift into the Sony camp; the likes of their medium format a7r vi are astounding, but I'm not up to spending 4k on a body and the same again on glass as an amateur :)
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Welcome to #FlyDay, potentially seeing a lot more flying tomorrow at Lancaster Airport (lancasterairport.com/airshow-2026/), but for today, one of nature's amazing airframes as this bee does what it does best on some loosestrife. #Photography #Bees #Nature #ECK
Bee on some purple loosestrife in the wetlands on the south-western end of Lake Redmond in York County, PA a week or so ago. Narrow depth of field, with most of the image heavily blurred shapes of cattails and loosestrife, bar the left third strand of loosestrife and a bee taking nectar from one of blooms
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Good morning folks as the week draws towards a close, little wet and wild, but tomorrow looks a little better. Rob (@robcrank68.bsky.social) is looking for #Paridae today for #BirdOfTheDay; I think one of Lake Redmond's seed loving tufted titmice will fit the bill nicely. #Birds #Photography #ECK
Tufted titmouse in amongst the short grass on the shores of Lake Redmond in York County, PA back in April this year. Narrow depth of field, heavy bokeh behind
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #ODG; any owl, duck or goose. To that end, this feathered friend who stood out amongst the park's mallard population yesterday. Dumped domestic duck perhaps? Would not be the first alas 🙁 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #Photography #ECK
Light fawn colored domestic duck wandering around on the sides of the Kiwanis Park lake, late in the day, on their lonesome.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
Been staying close to home both with work and the leg, so not a ton of photos of late. This pepperweed caught my eye as the sun was going down, beautifully backlit. Excuse the poor focus, and my KNavery, alas this is not KNotweed, but it is KNobbly #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKn #ECK #ClassicMono
Pepperweed I think, stood out all on its own sticking up amidst the rocks along the inlet to Kiwanis Lake, set alight by the sun waning in the late afternoon sky. Rendered here in black and white
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Shibui Shashin @shibui-shashin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Refraction of the morning sunlight through an old bathroom window - Caerleon, Wales #refraction #light #pattern #window #windowsOnWednesday #classicMono
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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Update to this week's art challenge cheat sheet. I left last week's #AlphabetChallenge explanation. Sorry! #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #DailyArt #Painting #Drawing #ArtChallenge #ArtPrompt #TraditionalArt
Daily Art Prompts: Sept 14–20

Monday, September 14
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay + #PinkMon

Tuesday, September 15
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday 
#ColorADay + #BlueTue 

Wednesday, September 16
#WaterfallWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt
#ColorADay + #RedWed

Thursday, September 17
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens + #PompAndPatterns
#ColorADay + #YellowThu

Friday, September 18
#Scape (any kind of scape)
#ForestFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay + #BWFri

Saturday, September 19
#BNWmacro
#SmallBirdSaturday
#BlueSkyArtShow + #golden
#ColorADay + #GreenSat

Sunday, September 20
#Stunday (stunning)
#BNWmacro
#ImageAndVerse (your image + any poem)
#ColorADay + #OrangeSun

Compiled by @handcrankedAll Week Art Prompts: Sept 14–20

#AOFoto 
(Aesthetic of the ordinary. See aofoto.art for details.)

#ArtYear (any art)

#BirdOfTheDay 
(See Atlantic Birding, Helen Bennett, Alan H, or Rob Crank for daily prompt)

#ClassicMono (monochrome) 

#EastCoastKin or #ECK
(Art collective open to everyone. Message @rina2012 to join.)

#ECKPalette 
(See WealieArts for this week’s colors)

#ShowHeart (hearts)

#Abstractia + #splatter

#AlphabetChallenge + #WeekKForKn...
(anything that starts with “kn”)

#MixedMedia52 + #pink

#PaintByWords + #chrysanthemum or #bucket
(art, photos, and/or poetry)

#PostProcess + #texture
(See ‪@rjrock for photo to edit)

#SensoryArt + #wheel

Compiled by @handcranked
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
TGIF; weekend wandering awaits ... well, in my case a little languid limping, but I'll take it vs the last 4 months. @atlanticbirding.bsky.social is looking for a #Mouthful for today's #BirdOfTheDay, to that end, a cardinal family outing in William Kain park. 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #ECK #Flyday #Photography
Female cardinal with a seed in her beak in William Kain park, York County, PA. Narrow depth of field with the female cardinal and a narrow strip of grass in focus, and a male cardinal resplendent in red blurred in the background
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Welcome to Thursday, the day of Jupiter and Vishnu, Buddha and Dattatrey; when in 1894 a London taxi driver, George Smith, became the first person to be fined for DUI/drunk driving. Thankfully little sign of drunk driving of this beast at the weekend. #Photography #ColorADay #YellowThu #ECK
Colorful Russell steam traction engine #16951 made in Massillon, Ohio at the William's Grove Historic Steam Engine Association's Steam Show last weekend. Boldly painted with brilliant yellow spoke wheels, and red front section of boiler, steps and cylinders/pistons, beneath a yellow half canopyColorful Russell steam traction engine #16951 made in Massillon, Ohio at the William's Grove Historic Steam Engine Association's Steam Show last weekend. Boldly painted with brilliant yellow spoke wheels, and red front section of boiler, steps and cylinders/pistons, beneath a yellow half canopy with white hazy skies beyond.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Welcome to Monday, moon's day, and a new week. Labor Day here in the US, summer's end for many recreational organizations. Wandering down to the small festival at Kiwanis Lake in a bit, but before I do, one of the Lake's migrant egrets from back in March. #BirdOfTheDay #Herons&Egrets #birds #ECK
Great egret flying low over Kiwanis Lake back in March of this year, twig in its beak to aid in building nests.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Promised to put up a few more shots from William's Grove, so here we go ... and to those F150 drivers out there ... THAT'S A SET OF DUALIES 😜
Frick steam traction engine at William's Grove Historic Steam Engine Association's Steam Show yesterday. Long black boiler studded with rivets, red spoked wheels and a half canopySteam traction engine at William's Grove Historic Steam Engine Association's Steam Show yesterday showing off large, duel width rear wheels.Case steam traction engine at William's Grove Historic Steam Engine Association's Steam Show yesterday. Long black boiler, green cylinders,  red spoked wheels and a half canopySteam traction engine at William's Grove Historic Steam Engine Association's Steam Show yesterday, attached to a belt driving a threshing wheel.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
In addition to the traction engines, tractors and stationary engines, William's Grove also had a crazy collection of historic farm machinery, many bits of which horror game and movie creatives should be using for reference. As well as more traditional pieces ... #Photography #ClassicMono #Stunday
Classic US metal windmill still to be found at work in many places. In black and white, silhouetted against a cloud speckled sky.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm keeping with the simple side of today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social and going with Kiwani's finest for #SittingOnWater; family pairing of mallards out for a paddle on the wind rippled lake. #Birds #ECK #Photography
Pair of mallards on the surface of Kiwani's Lake in York, PA
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
A few more 'no excuses' catch up posts, with a few samples from William's Grove yesterday. Steam engineers love their numbers just as much diesel ones. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForIntegers #Photography
18030 painted in yellow on the deep red/maroon paintwork of the steam gear and pistons of an Eclipse traction engine at William's Grove yesterday854 stamped on the metal and highlit in white paint on green background beneath a  bracket on the boiler of a Case traction engine at William's Grove yesterday1775 on a metal tag in yellow on the side of an Eclipse steam traction engine's boiler at William's Grove yesterday.
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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Continuing my no excuses posts while we wait for the red flag restart; engineers do love putting numbers on everything. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForIntegers #Photography
Number on a CASE 400 tractor at William's Grove Steam Fest this weekendNumber on a CASE tracked tractor at William's Grove Steam Fest this weekendEntrant number attached to the diesel engine of a Farmwell tractor at William's Grove this weekend
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