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Tom Ogburn 🪔
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A visual artist & writer enjoying Bluesky🦋💙 Creating & writing for a new sequence of works:

The Parkways Projects: The Blue Ridge/The Skyline Drive Parkways, Great Smoky Mountains & Shenandoah NP @parkwaysprojects

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear
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Tom Ogburn 🪔 @bardicarts.bsky.social · Feb 10
The Parkways Projects—a 12/20 year series. A multi-tiered photo essay to be; a Substack/Patreon/Bluesky trio. Each arena has its own strengths. I appreciate your support & look forward to meeting you. #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Photography #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #NPS #USFS #GSMNP
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“Reflections disremembering by fractures,” from the Digital Hybrids, 2023. The Hybrid Works are allowing me a total merging of all modes of working combined with multi-media s well as applications. ➡️

#digitalcompositeimage #dci #hybridworks #photoshop #abstraction #surrealism #postmodern #steampunk
A current work-up of a Digital Hybrid piece, the image is predominantly golds, tans & gray with accents of orange, reds & turquoise blues. Before leaving Helper, Utah in early June 2023, I was walking often around the old town, collecting images at every turn. I moved to Helper from Santa Fe in early June 2020, so three years were spent collecting as many photos of that area as possible from the onset of the Covid Pandemic settling into our National psyche to the time of relaxation of preventive measures. By 2020 I had been working on the Hybrid projects, which is a weaving & welding of both traditional & digital art starts. In these three years being sequestered where I knew almost no one, I battened my work down to starting as many paintings & some drawings alongside many, many more digital works, from photographs & scans to digital composite builds using Photoshop as a platform for creation. As I worked in both modes of works, the weaving began, & many digital composite images (DCIs or builds; I use both terms interchangeably to a degree) began to emerge as both subject & theme. By the time this original photo was made (which is the root base of this image) I had already in mind three different uses for it. The first was as a promo photo as I’ve shot my own image in reflection now for years. That is the original photo itself. This is however the first Digital Hybrid work based on my departure from the town as a themed remembrance of time spent there. It’s fairly straightforward as a composition, as the fractured windows in the 1930’s era steel casement windows, the sandstone aggregate sill, coupled with skewed reflections needed no alteration or distortion. What is radically altered is taking the angle planes, in realistic color through 60+ stacks of planes. It allowed me to play with the image elements almost as the early cubists were doing in Spain & France of 1903. I’m loving this ALT text space as a way to archive visual works.
November 24, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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🦉 Ditto That—The intro part

#theparkwaysprojects #ChestnutTrees #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #TheSixties #TheGreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark #EastCoasKin

"Progress however, like art, is in the eye of the beholders. Concert stems from such vision, and vision stirs the mind and heart." 🌙 🪔
January 9, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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“Mordred & Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.”
≈ T.H. White

🦉117 Days After Winter's Fall Show and Sale
“Lofting the pale”

"Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens."
≈ George R. R. Martin
"Lofting the pale," from the Digital Hybrids, a digital composite image (DCI) which will eventually end up crossing back into the analog world of traditional painting as a larger work, which in my notes to my future self I've jotted in 60x40 inches as the first one. I know this raven very well, as we first met in June of 2014, when I moved back to Santa Fe from a two year break to experience Jerome, Arizona. I've posted on him earlier, and I miss seeing his great bird. Some of you have figured out through the years I have this thing for Ravens and Owls. Owls and Ravens, I guess, as the Owls came first in my life, and still figure so prominently to this day. This work has been waiting in the wings now for seven years. A curing of sorts. One might say it is now done and ready to take wing. He is both ghost and shadow, fading in and out of sky and desert scrub. He would visit nearly every morning, raucous a times but always inquiring. At times he'd light in the old dead tree limbs just two and a half miles down the Tesuque River, or wash, depending on the season. He would be perched above my turning point to head back to the casita for my five mile walks each day. Hey folks, still a work in La-La Land...I'll be back soon!
January 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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"A Slow Craze" from'The Parkways Projects' on Substack ⛰️
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🌙 "Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time." #TheodoreRoosevelt 🦉

#Landscapes #Photography #GoodnightBluesky🦋
#BlueRidgeParkway #Nature #RESIST
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
parkwaysprojects.bsky.social The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Mar 20
A Slow Craze #TomOgburn #photography #landscape #ArtYear #landscapephotography #mobilephotography #EastCoastKin 🦋 #NationalParks #USForestService #shotoniphone

The Parkways Projects—A multi-tiered photo essay in 3 media arenas: A Substack, Patreon & Bluesky trio 💙 Please click below to follow ⬇️
Something new from a border region, of something very old. I'm at Walters Dam here, in Tennessee, one of the original TVA Dam Projects. The scene is an old road sign "SLOW," in the immediate foreground. It's probably one of the very first aluminum ready-made signs, possibly from the 1960's. The chrome yellow paint has faded to a very pale butter yellow. The paint has crazed mightily, separating in places a quarter of an inch apart. The old WPA built Walters Power House is in the background. A main electrical array, made of steel trussworks, recedes on the right. Above it all looms the lush green mountainside of the Great Smoky Mountains State Park.
June 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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"The Sidh mists" ≈ 'The Parkways Projects' on Substack ⛰️
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🌙 "Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time." #TheodoreRoosevelt 🦉

#Landscapes #Photography #JuneSea #dream
#BlueRidgeParkway #Nature #RESIST
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
June 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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"Silver Plume" ≈'The Parkways Projects' on Substack ⛰️
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🌙 "Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time." #TheodoreRoosevelt 🦉

#Landscapes #Photography #JuneSea #dream
#BlueRidgeParkway #Nature #RESIST
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear
June 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Low cloud ceiling at Clear Creek Canyon this morning 🚲
Clear Creek Canyon west of Golden, Colorado Green grass meadow, pine and fir conifer forest on left side of canyon, rolling foothills, low gray clouds above
June 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Branches in the Fog

#ClassicMono #BlueSky #treescape #landscape #fog #EastCoastKin
A black and white image of aspen limbs leaning over a pond in early morning fog.
June 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Woman by the shore, Giants causeway
Archive
#rockintuesday
#eastcoastkin
Giants causeway in black and white A woman in distance by shore
July 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I never had a tree, but I had a room where I was never to be interrupted. I read ceaselessly.

Thanks for doing such a good job to promote this event from the get-go. You are always so true of heart, and it shines through in whatever you set your mind to doing or promoting. 🤍
July 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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#JuliArty = #Maple #SensoryArt #Journey week

C for Canada - 2020

#Phonetography
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #onlybeautifulthings #autumnappreciationroadtrip #bcuzitsCanadaDay #iCitdoyouCit #leafy
The crook between two branches of a maple tree with lots of orange-red leaves. Some of the leaves are arranged in such a way inside the crook that end up looking like the letter C. The sky is grey.
July 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Cassandra Wilson - Crazy He Calls (Audio)
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July 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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This woodland creek was photographed in Rabun County Georgia. It is Moccasin Creek. Such a beautiful hike through the woods. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #creeks #Georgia
July 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"The concrete slabs began to serve as post-modern abstract portraits of not just a single individual, but the multitudes who had knelt, squatted, cooked or just stared into the dancing flames."

'The Parkways Projects' who we once were, and still are.
July 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It?" Every One a Portrait of Thousands.

"Entropy has its own kind of beauty; it oh-so-very-slowly exudes an invisible flame stoked by the vacuum of abandonment and the passage of others."
"Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It?" Every One a Portrait of Thousands.
Crabtree Meadows relic
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July 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"Rocky Knob Agos" A doppelgänger of sorts.

I'm honestly not sure where this may lead, but it is a path worth unveiling. After all, we are nothing if not for the sum of our parts. At least it is a high path among the clouds.

I've launched "The Parkways Projects." A labor of love, Please join me 🦉🪔
Rocky Knob Agos
A Doppelganger Emerges from the Mists of Time and Memory
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July 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Once I get some sense of how many long, short and sidebar posts to do in a week's workflow, I'll be popping back up over here again. Trying to figure out paid subscriptions now, but I'll always be happy for anyone interested to just stay in a free subscription status! To me, the more the merrier! 🎍
July 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I'm finally beginning to get a groove going on #Substack with #TheParkwaysProjects — if any of you are there too, please drop by for a read and visit ✨

I've been writing up a storm, many of them expanded, and a times contracted from 1st and 2nd Drafts of ideas I've been squirreling away.
July 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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🌙🦉 Here's a short story with a rather painful middle, then an oddly granted little illumination. It's a bit of a happy ending, but would be happier still if on my return to the #Virginia end of the #BlueRidgeParkway with a box full of iPhones.

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Landscape #Nature #RockyKnob
Rocky Knob Agos
A Doppelganger Emerges from the Mists of Time and Memory
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July 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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#TheCampfire
First Tuesday
August 5, 2025
Names ~ legacy
Hitchhiker ~ hood surfer
Dunes ~ trees
Fires ~ fireflies
Mother ~ daughter
Crime ~ redemption
Sword ~ camera
Peanut the squirrel
Be open ~ history
Paths ~ premonition
Babies ~ home
Strength ~ love
Susan pt 3
Pete’s music
Our ears are open
A blazing good fire
July 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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It's only July and I need a vacation. Badly. I made the mistake of looking through last year's trip to Glacier National Park.

This is looking through the water at Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.

#EastCoastKin #Montana #GNP #photography
A close-up of a colorful assortment of smooth pebbles in various shapes and sizes covering a ground surface below water.
July 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I’m going to push this one more time. 😊

If you are a fan of trees, and of #ThickTrunkTuesday, then you really must read the Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, in which one of the key characters is a fig tree.

I loved it and think it should be part of any tree lover’s library.

#BookSky
Book Cover for The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. Illustration on the cover is of a fig branch, butterflies, and a parrot.
July 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Are we seeing too many bees?

#EastCoastKin #photography #BloomScrolling #flowers
Bee on an orange plant.
July 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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🌙 The starting point of words & images🪔

#TheParkwaysProjects #Change #Landscape #Photography
#VintagePhotographs #NationalParks #AltNationalParks
#Nature #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #ArtYear
#GreatSmokyMountains #ShenandoahNationalPark

"99% of Wisdom is Being Wise in Time"🦉 #TRoosevelt
The Parkways Projects | Tom Ogburn | Substack
A multi-stacked sequence of visual essays recounting the ideas, birth, formulation and construction of the Blue Ridge Parkways, The Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah National Parks, forward into th...
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July 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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🌙 A Bridge Too Far ≈ Between the Conjunction of South Carolina & North Carolina Swamps

#TheParkwaysProjects #Change #Landscape #Photography
#NationalParks #Nature #ArtYear #CarolinaBays #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina #Swamps

"Ninety-nine percent of Wisdom is Being Wise in Time"🦉 #TheodoreRoosevelt
A Bridge Too Far
Between the conjunction of South Carolina and North Carolina Swamps
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July 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM