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AnnaLois
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Creative, quirky, bookworm. World embracer. House renovator. Mermaid. Dressmaker. Gardener. Partner and mum. Thirst for knowledge. Not an ostrich. Excited by everyday wonders and surface pattern. Photographs taken by me. No AI. No DMs.
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Bobbin
for #SensoryArt theme of #Lines

#EastCoastKin #photography #wood #light #bobbin #history #monochrome #blackandwhite
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Photograph taken looking slightly up at a single wooden bobbin resting on a wooden storage box. The curves of the bobbin contrast with the lines of wooden rods making up the box. Light from the small window above creates gentle shadows. Taken at Stott Park Bobbin Mill in the Lake District, run brilliantly by English Heritage.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Kitchen disco launched! This is what Sunday evenings are for.

Not sure the neighbours would agree with my singing 😂
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I know it's not the done thing, but it should be...cheerleading yourself.

Two solid days of declutterring and I stuck at it. Years of paperwork sifted, shredded or labelled and filed. Even got my death folder done.

To anyone else who is also proud of themselves - good on you too! 🏆
a woman is sitting at a table waving her hand and says `` i did an awesome job ! high five to me ! ''
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table waving her hand and says `` i did an awesome job ! high five to me ! ''
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November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Back to my favourite bridge of the year, Ivelet bridge near Muker, Yorkshire Dales. I've been wanting to take this shot of the Milkyway galaxy through the gap in the trees all year long, as the alignment is only right in November. Of course November came with cloudy nights and rain.
Back to my favourite bridge of the year, Ivelet bridge near Muker, Yorkshire Dales. I've been wanting to take this shot of the Milkyway galaxy through the gap in the trees all year long, as the alignment is only right in November. Of course November came with cloudy nights and rain. Finally, on Wednesday 19th with the arrival of clear Arctic air, the conditions were perfect! Camera - Fujifilm X-T4 with Sigma 10-18mm F2.8 lens. The area was pitch black, so I provided some subtle illumination using a dim camping lantern hung from a nearby tree. The sky is made from 10 exposures, each at 10mm, F2.8, ISO 2500 20 seconds, stacked using the Sequator program. The foreground is a stack of 3 exposures at 10mm F4 ISO 1000 120 seconds. Dark images were also taken and added to the stacks to reduce camera noise. The sky and foreground were combined into a single image and final edits made in the Capture One software. If you are familiar with the folklore surounding Ivelet Bridge you will be please to know I did not encounter any corpses or headless hounds, thankfully!
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Between the Balustrade
for #Stunday

#EastCoastKin #photography #TheBowesMuseum #museum #BarnardCastle #CountyDurham #garden #autumn #stone

Apologies for previous posts getting the county wrong!
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Photograph taken looking through the fancy stone balustrade onto the perfect formal garden in front of The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle. Crouched down on the steps to get this angle, so a little surprised they let me in! Two large, ageing stone balusters, take up most of the frame. Between them is a beautiful formal garden with green grass and low flowerbeds, with a fountain in the middle. In the distance are autumn trees, the gatehouse and a moody sky overhead through which the sun is starting to break through. Absolutely wonderful museum to visit and the local area is lovely too with lots to visit.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Translucent Pleats
for #bnw_macro

#photography #mushroom #sunlight #fungi #fungifriends
#EgglestoneAbbey #macro #CountyDurham
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Photograph taken using a macro setting, looking up at a Pleated Inkcap mushroom (apparently) in the grounds of Egglestone Abbey, County Durham. Nestled the phone camera down in the grass. A small mushroom in amongst an expanse of grass. Sunlight catches and makes its pleated form look so delicate. Part of the abbey wall is in the background to the left. Egglestone Abbey is a beautiful place to visit if you're in the area. Run by English Heritage.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Someone is ready for his close up..

Happy #Caturday!!

#Finnegan #CatsOfBlueSky
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Elf-made shoes
‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’, 1965
Artist: Robert Lumley
The shoemaker sits at his workbench surveying four brightly coloured pairs of soft leather boots
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Feeling proud. 1.5 bin bags of progress. Rewarding myself with Tangfastics and Malbec 🏆
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Desperate attempt to streamline years of 'stuff'. Colleague suggested a game. If I manage this 465 items will be gone before New Year 😮😱🙏🏻
Photograph of a small cream bowl with a terracotta lip containing hideously purple pieces of folded paper. Upon each one is a numbered day of December (30 in total as giving myself Christmas Day off). Each day I pick a new slip and have to bin, recycle or donate the number of items on the slip.
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Renewable Energy
for #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Small

#EastCoastKin #photography #windfarm #travel #lookdown #sea #bluesky #clouds #layers
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Photograph taken by the kid (they had the window seat) looking down on a windfarm in the middle of the sea from the aeroplane window. Image is a vast sea of mid-blue with tiny weeny white wind turbines spaced out, and a few white clouds in places.
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Little Lady
for #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Small

#EastCoastKin #photography
#ladybird #insects #meadow #macro #macrophotography #NessBotanicGardens #TheWirral #nature #naturephotography
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Photograph taken using a macro setting at Ness Botanic Gardens, on The Wirral. Obviously taken in the summer on a beautifully warm, sunny day. A ladybird sits atop a green, unopened flower bud in the midst of a large area of wildflowers and grass. It's right front leg sticks out to steady its body.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Orderly Tiny Snuff
for #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Small

#EastCoastKin #photography
#snuffbottles #Chinese #display #LadyLeverArtGallery #gallery #TheWirral #PortSunlight #curation #history #ceramics
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Photograph of tiny Chinese snuff bottles collected in 1918 on display at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. Image shows six rows of small bottles, all different shapes, patterns and colours. They look like they are floating against a white background, gently lit from above, below and the sides. A masterclass in curation!
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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That's right! 😏🪩
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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The shoe obsession of my twenties seems to have morphed into a jewellery obsession of my forties 😬
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Water Road and The Race
for #Scape #Landscape and #SensoryArt theme of #Water

#EastCoastKin #photography #StudleyRoyal #Yorkshire #UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite #landscape #reflections #ponds #autumn #trees
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Photograph taken at UNESCO World Heritage Site, Studley Royal Water Gardens, North Yorkshire. Image taken looking up a straight channel of water stretching into the distance in which is reflected pale blue sky overhead and trees from one side. Perfectly mown grass either side of the water. Autumnal trees in the mid-ground and a glimpse of a stone folly nestled within them on the right. Hedge at the bottom of the image and a beautiful dark silhouette of a tree stretching into the scene in the foreground next to which I was standing. An autumnal scene of tranquility. Wasn't so tranquil soon after once I struck up conversation with a lovely older gentleman with a walking frame and we chuckled our way round, chatting about being happy snappers with our phone cameras and whether we should race each other. Chat to the elderly people folks - it brightens their day and yours 😊
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Care and Curation
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #UpholsteryAndTextiles

#EastCoastKin #photography #curation #textiles #textilescare #TheBowesMuseum #museum #BarnardCastle #NorthYorkshire
(Android phone camera)

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Photograph of an area of fabric storage in The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Vital part of looking after a textile collection and almost as fascinating as the collection itself. Yes, I surprised myself getting this excited about storage solutions! The museum has various areas where you can learn about how pieces are cleaned, stored and cared for. A large fluted, dark tinted glass door is drawn back to show rolls of wrapped textiles protected by cream fabric. To the bottom right of the image, the glass door has beautiful gold letter spelling out 'ROLLED'.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Fancy Fella
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #UpholsteryAndTextiles

#EastCoastKin #photography
#GawthorpeTextileCollection #Lancashire #GawthorpeHall #SewSky #pattern #textiles #embroidery #jacket
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Photograph of a section of an Albanian jacket in cut black silk with intricate gold embroidery on display at Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Off to buy new jeans...a size bigger. Am blaming tumble dryer shrinkage, not lack of exercise or heartier food now it's blooming freezing!
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Manchester Mist
for #UrbanGaze

#EastCoastKin #photography #Manchester #drizzle #graffiti #highrise #bridges #cityscape
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Photograph taken from the train (hence the window smudge) looking towards the city. Graffiti on an old red brick bridge with the arches of another bridge behind and high rise city buildings behind. Grey, cloudy sky overhead. Like the layers in this photo. It captures history and some urban botany with the plant growing out from the brickwork.
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Curve Hugger
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #UpholsteryAndTextiles

#EastCoastKin #photography #fashion #textiles #sheathdress #silksatin #fabric #style #TheBowesMuseum #museum #BarnardCastle #NorthYorkshire
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Pre-kid, I rocked a dress like this. 1932 crêpe backed silk satin, sheath dress, cut to hug the body. Absolutely love it! Would love to pull a dress like this off again, in an exciting (and more forgiving) colour. Photograph showing a cream silk satin, floor length evening dress cut on the bias with twisted ropes of fabric providing interest around the neck and arm holes. On display in the textile collection at The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Technically not a palace but if you saw the building it was built in the style of one and it has a very fancy garden too. Well worth a visit and so much on display. Their storage methods of such amazing works are fascinating too!
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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If In Doubt, Add Lace!
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #UpholsteryAndTextiles

#EastCoastKin #Lace #textiles #GawthorpeTextileCollection #Lancashire #photography #GawthorpeHall #SewSky #pattern #history #light
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Close up of an intricate, one hundred year old lace collar. To protect the textile collection on display, items are housed in rooms with special blinds over the C17th windows. In the background you can see the outline of the leaded glass window. Gawthorpe Hall, run by the National Trust, houses the Kay-Shuttleworth textile collection. Absolutely well worth a visit, from the textiles to breathtaking plaster ceilings.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Water Mirror
for #SensoryArt theme of #Water

#EastCoastKin #photography #WaterWednesday #canal #Lancashire #reflections
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Photograph taken on a canal towpath in Lancashire in very early spring. Canal water is so still it reflects the trees on the opposite bank like a mirror. The tree trunk reflections also stretch across the towpath in front.
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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'Yuansu' by Fin DAC
for #ContemporaryTuesday #TagTuesday and #ArtYear

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#streetart #contemporary #art #STRAAT #Amsterdam #scale
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Photograph taken at STRAAT in Amsterdam of a huge painting by the Irish artist Fin DAC called 'Yuansu' painted in 2017. For detailed info on the piece please visit: www.straatmuseum.com/en/collection/yuansu The artist can be found on Instagram @findac The beautiful painting features a contemporary woman wearing traditional Han Chinese clothing side on to the viewer. A huge blue moon is behind her. The scale of the artwork can be seen by the lady with a pram to its right. One of my favourite pieces in the street art museum. First stop when in Amsterdam for me - fantastic museum!
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Have You Tried Flossing?
for #NightmareNov theme of #Teeth

#photography #TRex #dinosaur #replica #DinosaurWorld #IsleOfWight #monochome #blackandwhite
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Photograph taken looking into the open jaws of a replica T-Rex skull. There a lots of very long, sharp teeth, a few broken and some missing. Intimidating nonetheless! Taken at Dinosaur World on the Isle Of Wight. Monochrome filter used for effect. Yes, I'm also a dinosaur nerd 🤓
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM