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Michael Larkin
@cloudmaker.bsky.social
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Australian landscape photographer
www.cloudmaker.com
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cloudmaker.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #evening
Now in the west the colours change,
the blue with crimson blending;
Behind the far Dividing Range,
the sun is fast descending.
- Henry Lawson

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #sunset #bluemountains #sydney #nsw #australia
Ridges layered in dark blue silhouette as the sun has dipped below the horizon. The last of the light illuminates high, wispy clouds in pink, salmon and orange.
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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The flower gem
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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tomato mouse
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Fairy light
A favorite image of mine from
Ffos Noddun / Fairy Glen in Eryri, North Wales
Capturing the light rays is such a pleasure to witness
November 24, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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fravery.bsky.social
"I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of ocean shores;
I change, but I cannot die."
― Percy Bysshe Shelly, The Cloud

Art by Rachael Mia Allen
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Cherry blossom - spring has arrived.
April 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Peaks of the Dolomites shrouded in clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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fravery.bsky.social
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more

Lord Byron

Painting: solitude by David Lorenz
October 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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when u walk confidently into the interview room and then see who the interviewer is
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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weratedogs.com
My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)
ahh! a small fluffy ghost sits on a hardwood floor staring directly at us. but actually... the longer we take it in, the more cute the ghost becomes. one could even mistake this little guy for a golden retriever puppy wearing a sheet with eye, ear, and mouth holes cut out of it. even though he gave us a fright, we would still pet this ghost puppy.
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Inge Schuster
A Man and his Dog
October 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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This is Poet. He would have really crushed it as a barista in the early to mid-2010s. Born in the wrong decade smh. 12/10
a light blond golden retriever puppy wearing an olive green beanie sits on a picnic table in a park. the trees in the background are green and orange with fall foliage. his floppy green beanie is pulled down on his noggin, pressing a line of his fluffy forehead fur forward, and gluing his ears to the sides of his face. he looks ever so slightly downcast that no one understands him. photo credit wat.ki on instagram
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Walking With Izzy.
Ben Young
October 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
cloudmaker.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical ... one from the archive ... a #waterfall in a very steep sided valley in the #BlueMountains #NationalPark in #NSW. It was quite late in the day and I was using ISO25 Kodachrome, hence the long exposure ...

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #nature #australia
A waterfall cascades over several rock platforms from the upper left of the image to the bottom right. It is late in the day, so the shadows are deep and the water has blurred like angel hair due to the long exposure. The rock faces are covered in moss and the steep sided gully is filled with ferns and glistening dark emerald vegetation
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Across Buttermere
October 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Lake Kawaguchi and Mt. Fuji
Koitsu Tsuchiya
water colour of a landscape, with a large snow capped mountain, a clump of trees on an island in a lake, and on that lake a boat
October 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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I really liked how this pine tree looked like it was reaching for the light.

#photography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
A black and white image of a pine tree with long branches that look like they are reaching out towards the light. © Damian Ward 2025.
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
cloudmaker.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #relax ... a weddell #seal, dead to the world, despite the ruckus of passing chinstrap #penguins near Baily Head on Deception Island in the South Shetland #Islands

#photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #antarctica
A weddell seal lies on its back on the volcanic sand beach near Baily Head on Deception Island in the South Shetlands, sound asleep despite the ruckus from chinstrap penguins passing back and forth along the beach
October 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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HANG UP YOUR WAR HAMMER, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Light explosion from Norway….
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Susan Kane, Dance, watercolour on paper, 2024
September 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Beech leaves.
September 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Sea of orange 🍁
September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
cloudmaker.bsky.social
Posting something a little different ... for International Red Panda Day, supporting conservation work by the Red Panda Network (redpandanetwork.org)

#redpanda #conservation #wildlife

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-fk...
Habre - Curled in the Canopy
YouTube video by Red Panda Network
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
cloudmaker.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #angles ... cheating a little bit, but another one from me, this time from nature ... this makes me think of the confluence of two rivers. Image made in Hillsdale Meadows, #BanffNationalPark #Canada

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #closeup #snow
Closeup of dried grass and snow, the dried grass forming a y-shape like two rivers joining. The dried grass is a warm golden brown colour and contrasts with the austere whiteness of the snow.
September 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM