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Mark Finney 🇦🇺📷🇸🇪
@claustral.bsky.social
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Communicator, coach and reality-challenged optimist. Grew up in Australia. Grew some more in Sweden. Grew even more at the buffet. Likes unpopular music and dislikes nostalgia. Has been known to take a photo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/claustral/).
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Robber's Hollow (or Rövarekulan in the original Swedish) is a spectacular scene in autumn colours. #eastcoastkin #sweden #skåne #fallcolor #autumn #scandinavia #landscapephotography #scape
A vertical photo of an autumn scene at a nature reserve in southern Sweden. A creek flows towards the camera, and reflected in the water are the yellows of the leaves on the trees overhanging the creek. Some moss-covered rocks sit in the foreground. The ground, where visible, is entirely covered by fallen yellow leaves.
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Sunrise at Stykkishólmur.
I shot this as an HDR sequence in 2012, but recently, I've been reprocessing my HDRs from single exposures. The D800 clearly has dynamic range that obviates the need for HDR processing, and the results are significantly improved. #iceland #lighthouse #scape #landscape
A small red lighthouse stands on a headland outside the harbour of Stykkishólmur in Iceland. The metal lighthouse, with its red lamp illuminated, is situated on a weathered, painted yellow concrete circle. In the distance, heavy cloud meets the ocean with a ribbon of yellow sky at the horizon. The sunrise casts glints of warm colour on the sea and headland. Nikon D800 | 27mm | f 10 | 1/13s [-2.3 stops] | ISO 100 | shot August 2012
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Time for new fungi! #fungifriday #sweden #forest #fungus #skåne #trollskogen
A larger orange fungus grows out of leaf litter on a forest floor. A smaller version of the same species is growing beneath it. To the left is the glistening, hairy, seedpod of a beech tree. The background is in soft hues of brown and green. Nikon Z8 | 105 mm | f 14 | 0.77 s | ISO 800 | Shot September 2025 in Trollskogen, Skåne, Sweden
September 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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There was a lot of crawling around on a very dank forest floor to shoot this. It had stopped raining just an hour before, and as I lay on the wet leaves, I saw spiders, an earthworm, a flatworm, countless tiny flying insects and more I couldn't name.
Two wet, beige-coloured fungi grow out of the leaf litter on a forest floor. The fungi have skinny, dark brown stems and a faint spoked pattern on their wet caps. In the background are leaves in various states of decay and the hairy seed pod of a beech tree. Nikon Z8 | 105 mm macro | f16 | 1s | ISO 500 | no artificial lighting
September 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I usually shoot landscapes, but thought I'd try a challenge with the Z8 and a 105mm lens. After changing what seemed like almost every camera setting to its opposite, I managed to get one shot worth saving. #macromonday #dragonfly #sweden #eastcoastkin #nikon #insect #insectinflight
A large blue and black dragonfly shot mid-flight over a khaki coloured out-of-focus pond. Nikon Z8 | 105 mm (cropped) | f4.5 | 1/2000s | ISO 1250
September 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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"Addresses the site nicely"
#stunday #eastcoastkin #sydney #operahouse #Australia #NSW #architecture
A panorama photo the Sydney Opera House, shot from a ferry sailing past. The sky is filled with ominous dark clouds and the cream-coloured tiles of the building light up the centre of the frame. Shot in May 2025. Nikon Z8 | 30 mm | f 10 | ISO 500
July 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Bondi Icebergs. An ocean pool at the southern end of Sydney's Bondi Beach.
#stunday #pool #Sydney #Australia #swimming #blue #pacificocean #Bondi #bondibeach #eastcoastkin #bondiicebergs #baths
Ocean baths at Bondi, Australia, on a sunny winter's day. At the top of frame is turbulent coastal water. Most of the frame is the two pools at the location. Bathers are standing, sitting and swimming. The water is blue-green.
July 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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A couple of Small Copper butterflies for #insectThursday.
#sweden #eastcoastkin #insects #summer #scania #skåne #butterflies #lepidoptera
Two "small copper" butterflies in a field of out-of-focus purple flowers. These small butterflies have beige underwings and are bright orange with black spots on top. Shot in July 2025. Nikon Z8 | 105 mm | f 7.1 | 1/1250 s | ISO 500
July 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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There's a storm somewhere.
#blueskymonday #clouds #sweden #evening #skåne #eastcoastkin
A vast panorama of heavy clouds over the plains of Scania, in southern Sweden. Just sky, clouds, and a thin band of ground across the bottom of the photo. Shot in June 2025. Nikon Z8 | 6 x 70mm | f8.0 | 1/125s | ISO 64 | Merged with PTGui
July 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Green Forester moths (Adscita statices).
#stunday #eastcoastkin #moths #lepidoptera #insect #sweden #skåne #flower
Two Green Forester moths on a purple flower. In the background are soft green and yellow hues of an out-of-focus field, speckled with other white flowers. Shot in July 2025. Nikon Z8 | 105mm | f5.6 | 1/3200s | ISO 500
July 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A Tibetan monk looks over the city of Shigatse.
#tibet #china #monk #tashilhumpo #red #stunday #eastcoastkin
A Tibetan Buddhist monk, wearing red robes and red shoes, looks out from a verandah over the city of Shigatse. In the distance, a long line of high Himalayan peaks is visible. Shot in September 2005. Canon EOS 100 film camera.
July 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Superman's Receptionist
#cityscape #urban #Sydney #Australia #streetphotography #eastcoastkin ##scape #photography
Photograph of a brick building with an old-fashioned red telephone booth outside (on the right) and a young tree (on the left). A woman is visible in an archway in the building, directly above the phone booth. Shot in May 2025. Nikon Z8 | 70mm | f7.1 | 1/80s | ISO200
June 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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A protester at the Ockupationfestival in Lund, 2009.
#stunday #Lund #sweden #eastcoastkin #woman #protest #streetphotography #red #mask
Photo of a young woman wearing a black hoodie, a red scarf and a red & black mask. She is staring straight at the camera. She is surrounded by people, mostly wearing white, disposable coats. Shot in May 2009. Nikon D200 | 80mm | f4.0 | 1/500s | ISO 200
June 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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March Past of the Bin Chickens. Under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
#Sydney #ibis #birds #Australia #urban #photography #NSW
A photograph taken under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In the foreground, five ibises are walking across a grass lawn. Shot in May 2025. Nikon Z8 | 46mm | f8.0 | 1/160s | ISO 500
June 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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I missed the flowering rape fields in Sweden this year by being in the wrong hemisphere. Here they are, with the classic Scanian pollarded willows, from a few years back.
#landscape #scape #eastcoastkin #rapeseed #canola #crop #farming #sweden #skåne #willows #pilträd #panorama
A panoramic photo of a large field of flowering rape seed plants. Across the middle is an avenue of pollarded willow trees just getting their spring leaves. Shot in May 2016. Nikon D800 | 6 x 200mm | f16 | 1/100s | ISO 400
June 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The mill at Revinge. With birds.
#stunday #monochrome #windmill #Sweden #skåne #eastcoastkin #birds #evening #fog #nikon #evening #B&W
A warm-toned, black and white photo of a windmill at dusk. There is a light fog, so the contrast is lowered and the background is unclear. Some birds are sitting on the sail frames, and others are flying away. Shot in 2014. Nikon D800 | 116 mm | f 4.0 | 1/20s | ISO 800
June 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Bi-AMPed.
The recently refreshed original AMP building (1962) on the left, and the new AMP Centre (2022) to the right. Sydney CBD.
And if it needs saying, the people were added with AI.
#photography #sydney #buildings #australia #contast #cityscape #eastcoastkin #scape #NSW #Nikon #architecture
Photograph of two skyscrapers in central Sydney. The building to the left is covered in large monochrome tiles, while the building to the right is much more modern and complex in design. Between the buildings is a cloudy sky. Two people have been added to a terrace on the building to the right using AI. Shot in May 2025. Nikon Z8 | 70 mm | f 8.0 | 1/400s | ISO 80
June 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Noisy Miner vs Blue-Eyed Honeyeater - A battle for domination of the local pandanus tree.
#Australia #Queensland #birds #eastcoastkin #stunday #goldcoast #BIF
Photo of a noisy minor bird chasing a honeyeater. Both birds are flying against a featureless blue sky. Shot in May 2025. Nikon Z8 | 105mm | f8.0 | 1/500s
June 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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The Sydney Opera House is reflected in the windows of the Park Hyatt hotel.
#blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #sydney #operahouse #reflection #urban #Australia #NSW #architecture #modern
A photo of the Sydney Opera House reflected in windows. The image is split 50:50, with the real building on the right and the reflection on the left. People are standing on a wooden jetty between the camera and the Opera House. Shot in May 2025. Nikon Z8 | 65mm | f13 | 1/160s | ISO500
June 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This #landscape is so Australian, I rate it a gold kangaroo over Emu resplendent.
#scape #eastcoastkin #nsw #australia #nikon
Gently rolling, grass-covered hills fill the background of this photograph. A couple of gum trees are in the foreground, along with a small number of granite boulders. The sky is pale blue, almost without clouds. Shot in May 2025 on a back road between Bathurst and Orange, in the Western Slopes of NSW, Australia.
June 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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As you cross the mountains along the east coast of Australia and head inland, the country opens up, the hills undulate rather than crash, and the trees find space from each other.
#NSW #landscape #B&W #Australia #farmland #peckatoe #westernslopes #eastcoastkin #photography #nikon
Black and white photo of a cattle farm between Bathurst and Orange, on the Western Slopes of NSW, Australia. The sky contains one small cloud, and most of the ground is covered in grass. Scattered across the photo are a few dozen gum trees, each spaced from one another. Shot in May 2025.
June 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Dubai reflections
#UAE #airport #photography #dxb
May 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Arieh Warshel - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013.
#urbangaze #nobelprize #eastcoastkin #peopleofbluesky #sweden #blackandwhite #photography #Lund #mediconvillage #chemistry
Black and white photo of an older man wearing a suit and tie, and glasses. Shot in 2013. Nikon D800 | 60mm | f3.3 | 1/350s | ISO 2200
May 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Walpurgis conductor.
Sweden celebrates spring by lighting large bonfires across the country on Walpurgis Eve. In my village, the lighting of the bonfire is accompanied by music provided by a brass band.
#sweden #walpurgis #valborg #music #peopleofbluesky #photography
Some people are standing in front of the flames of a bonfire in Sweden for Walpurgis Eve. A man is raising his hand, conducting the brass band in front of him. A tuba fills most of the right side of the frame. Shot in April 2025. Nikon Z8 | 185mm | f2.8 | 1/1000s | ISO 1000
April 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Lift off!
#macromonday #ladybeetle #ladybug #insect #macro #Sweden #spring #photography #eastcoastkin #nikon
A macro photo of a lady beetle (aka ladybug) spreading its wings and is about to take off from a white flower. The background is out-of-focus green leaves. Shot in 2007. Nikon D200 | 50mm | f4.0 | 1/1000s | ISO100
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM