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Ed Buziak / Photographer
@buzzed44.bsky.social
Abstract artist, stock photographer, occasional writer… plant-based… fixie rider… ‘60s art student (if you can remember the ‘60s).

My page for contemporary and modern art @artbuzz.bsky.social
Plus a new page for Postal History @postalhistory.bsky.social
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I've added another 49 photographers using alt.text to my original list. Why 49? Because one is an artist - eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social - who writes possibly the best alt.text on Bluesky, and I want people to see what he does and take a big hint, because visually impaired Blueskyers need it!!
I'm in Europe but feel that this visual message needs spreading... so just ordered a bunch of these buttons and stickers for passing around. Take a look at their website for more positive thoughts to wear and share!

dzynwrldbuttons.bigcartel.com
The late great civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis once said "Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America".

#buttons #pinbackbuttons #buttonart #buttonpower #badges #graphicdesign #activism #civilrights #resist #getingoodtrouble
March 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Spotted this super-condition Renault 4 GTL "Clan" in Le Blanc. The 4L had a 33-year production run from 1961 to 1994 with more than 8 million manufactured. The 1978 GTL had a 1.1 litre engine providing 34hp (DIN), allowing for a top speed of about 120kph.

#BlueSkyMonday #Motoring #Renault #France
February 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
One of my several complicated collages composed of overlapping zig-zag angled shapes of blue cartridge papers. The original idea for the angled shapes is based on the fortified walls of the 17th century French military engineer General Vauban.

#BlueSkyMonday #Art #Artwork #Collage #ZigZag
February 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Just read the 386-page dystopian novel "VOX" by Christina Dalcher in four evenings, which is fast for me; at times I couldn't put it down. Very disturbing and not a million miles from how some in the current US Repugnant administration would think and act.

#BlueskyBooks #Book #VOX #ChristinaDalcher
February 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Between rendezvous in Tours during the week I again heard a familiar "honk-honk" and managed to grab a few shots of this well-known couple who whiz around the city center most days causing people to pause and smile and offer a wave... sounds a happy scenario to me!

#Cycling #Tandem #Tours #France
February 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yesterday I spotted a 1927 Austin 7 driving through the central French town of Le Blanc, in the Indre department; the Sussex owners having a spin in the French countryside. This particular car was manufactured 98 years ago so will soon celebrate its 100-year anniversary.

#Austin7 #Motoring #France
February 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I've worked for newspapers so a hero is Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, the German-born founder of the news agency which bears his name. In 1851 he opened a telegraph office near the London Stock Exchange where in 1980 I took a photo of this memorial.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #Reuter #Nikon
February 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"The Fall of the Rebel Angels" is an oil painting by Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder made in 1562. This 1000-piece jig-saw completed last evening shows a different take to my 'gold' post three days ago of the Angel slaying Lucifer statue on a church in Vienna.

#Jigsaw #Artwork #Bruegel
February 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I've never ridden a motorbike, but Barry Sheene was my hero racing on two-wheels. Here, at the TransAtlantic Easter meeting at Oulton Park in 1974, I caught him popping the victory champagne... as he caught me with the spray.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #Motorcycling #BarrySheene #Nikon
February 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Not on this occasion, but this particular team of pompiers, the aircrew, medical staff and helicopter got me into surgery in 45 minutes, in CHU Tours 70 km distant, and so my life was saved after a shock heart attack in 2014.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes #Helicopter #Airbus #France #Nikon
February 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Since I've bought almost one hundred fiction books in the past couple of years, but have read only a third, I've created a listing on StoryGraph to keep track of everything; bought, read, reading, to read, etc. It's a neat site with your trends listed and recommendations proffered.

#Books #Fiction
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A double-header from a 'golden hour' visit. MAS, The "Museum aan de Stroom" (Dutch for 'Museum by the Stream'), located along the river Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in May 2011 and is the largest museum in Antwerp.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Antwerp #Nikon
February 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A golden winged angel figure holding two lightning bolts seen high on top of a corner of the recently renovated INNO department store building on the corner of Meir and Leysstraat in Antwerp, Belgium.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Antwerp #Belgium #Nikon
February 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The richly gold decorated Anker astronomical clock, constructed between 1911 and 1917 on a bridge joining two buildings owned by the Anker (now Helvetia) Insurance Company.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Vienna #Nikon
February 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Above the entrance to the Church of St. Michael on the Michaelerplatz in Vienna, Austria, a group of winged angels and St. Michael with a golden sword and shield slaying Lucifer; figures executed by the Italian sculptor Lorenzo Mattielli in 1725.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Vienna #Nikon
February 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Some 10 km away from Golden, Colorado, is the Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, famous for concerts. Here in the park the warning road-sign and natural rock formation compete for the 'gold' tag... perhaps one is too yellow, the other too red?

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #RedRocks #Colorado #USA
February 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The distinctive gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver is covered with real gold leaf; first added in 1908 to commemorate the Colorado Gold Rush.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Denver #Colorado #Nikon
February 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Can't post much this week... busy on another project!

But, cycling back from the shops last evening the golden setting sun, low in the sky, cast my shadow on the edge of the shrubbery woodland at the side of the road... click, click, click...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGold #Cycling
February 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Didn't realise one could do this, but I've muted any and all posts with "Trump" and "Musk" in their content for the next 30 days by adding those two names in the "muted words and tags" setting. I simply detest both men and don't want even their names in front of my eyes... it's enough in newspapers!
February 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A very good article about blind photographer Peter Eckert worth reading and thinking about...
I constantly think about losing my sight. And how that would effect me. It would be profound but I'd find ways to make the best of it. Blind photographer, Pete Eckert, is an inspiration to me. One of a few blind photographers who do amazing work.

peteeckert.com
Pete Eckert: Home
Blind photographer Pete Eckert is at the forefront of an emerging art form. His groundbreaking work includes VW, Playboy, Swarovski and NCIS.
peteeckert.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I've added another 49 photographers using alt.text to my original list. Why 49? Because one is an artist - eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social - who writes possibly the best alt.text on Bluesky, and I want people to see what he does and take a big hint, because visually impaired Blueskyers need it!!
February 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The "Red Curtain Trilogy" is the title given to the first three films directed by Baz Luhrmann... "Strictly Ballroom" (1992), William Shakespeare's "Romeo + Juliet" (1996) and "Moulin Rouge!" (2001). These three were included in a "Red Curtain Trilogy" DVD box set.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms
February 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"The Last Post" - a 1929 British silent drama film (now sadly lost) directed by Dinah Shurey, the only British female director and producer at that time. It told the story of a British army unit quashing a Yemeni fight for independence in the Middle East.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Mail
February 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“Pennies from Heaven” - a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, so Chicago replaced London as a location.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #Money
February 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
“The Numbers Game” - a 1987 Italian movie written, directed and acted in by Giancarlo Giannini with Victoria Abril when, on a hot summer night the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled! Guess his number was up!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms #RuralFrance #Numbers
February 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM