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Peter Barnes
@infinite8horizon.com
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Eclectic curmudgeon, bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d

On Turrbal land, he/him/ally.
Photos etc. here.
Politics at @infinite8horizon2.bsky.social
∃ @infinite8horizon alter-egos on mastodon & others.
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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · Mar 27
Hi, and welcome!
I have two BlueSky accounts.
This one is for my photos (and others') and other nice things.

The other account, @infinite8horizon2.bsky.social, is for politics and not-so-nice things. Choose wisely, and check the auto-complete.

Bio is the same (it's me!), link in profile.
Enjoy.
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Blue hour in Nightcliff

#scape
#photography #landscape #cloudscape #BlueHour #gift #EastCoastKin
The last glow of sunset reflected in low cumulus over land and the bay The sun has set but a few higher clouds are still glowing pink over the sea as the sky's blue darkens Enough light is left after sunset to show pearly white cumulus against a darkening blue sky A palm tree is silhouetted against a chaotic mix of colour and texture in the post-sunset sky, with blue sky, pink cloud and low grey cloud all forming a complex backdrop.
December 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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More sulphur-crested hijinks

#FlyDay
#photography #birds #cockatoos #humour #gift #EastCoastKin
One sulphur-crested cockatoo on the wing playing chicken with one perched on the tip of a branch, threatening to fly right into it. ...the threat works, the aggressor weaves slightly to avoid the collision, but the perched bird is frightened into an inelegant takeoff.
December 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Good Morning!
More Nightcliff bay moods

#scape
#photography #landscape #seascape #cloudscape #Darwin #gift #EastCoastKin
Reflected sunrise light on cumulus over the sea. In the foreground a protective groyne curves out to sea. A lone figure stands on a rocky promontory looking out to sea and marching, growing white cumulus strung along little distance out over the water. Ragged, growing cumulus over the bay not long before sunset, grey against a clouded grey sky. In the foreground a rock groyne, and a point juts out at the far left. Bright late afternoon sun lights up high pervasive cloud, while streams of low cumulus are drifting out into the bay which shines bright and calm in the low sun. A grassed foreshore and sandy beach fill the foreground
December 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Palace on the Lake
Rare portrait...

Since I lack a high-quality Alhambra shot
#PalacesAndGardens #PalacePick
#photography #interior #palace #EastCoastKin
The sumptuous interior of a summer palace on the lake in Warsaw, with a rare shot of the person usually behind the lens, apparently lost in thought, or possibly just lost.
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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A festive dragonfly
Painted grasshawk, Neurothemis stigmatizans

#photography #macro #insects #Odonata #dragonfly #gift #EastCoastKin
A rich red-brown winged dragonfly, with bright red flashes on both front and back wings, perched on a dead twig.
December 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Good Morning, and Merry Christmas to those celebrating!

#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
The sky is filled with clouds all ablaze with the pinks and oranges of a sunrise over sea. In the foreground the silhouettes of eucalypts also include two kookaburras perched, because we don't have turtle-doves.
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Sunset storm, Nightcliff bay

#photography #landscape #cloudscape #Darwin #gift #EastCoastKin
Large, low, looming cumulus clouds are drifting across the almost dark ocean at sunset. There is still some light in the sky, but it's mostly obscured by the towering ragged cumulus, all greys and deep blues. There is an apricot tinge on the horizon where the sun is just managing to sift through more distant cloud there, and even that is partially obscured by bands of rain from the most distant cloud.
December 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The storm arrives...

#photography #landscape #cloudscape #Darwin #storm #gift #EastCoastKin
A small casuarina is tossed by strong winds as a storm front passes over in advance of heavy rain
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Storm front over Nightcliff bay

#photography #landscape #seascape #cloudscape #storm #gift #EastCostKin
A storm front rolls in from the sea, heavy rain apparent at its most turbulent clouds.
December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Overloaded?

#WackyWednesdayArt
#candid #iphonephotography #streetphotography #humour #EastCoastKin
A small open tray truck is pulled over by the side of the road. The tray is full of pink and red balloons, and the driver is adjusting the load, although why and how is unclear, as is the purpose of the load, which is uncovered.
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Good Morning!
Bald Knob 063431

May you fly free today...

#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A golden sun blazes through multiple cloud layers over the ocean horizon, backlighting some and illuminating others. A bird wheels higher in the sky against still-grey cloud, and a eucalypt frames the right of the image in silhouette.
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Good evening
Blue hour, Nightcliff bay

#photography #landscape #cloudscape #sunset #BlueHour #gift #EastCoastKin
A complex interplay of light and growing shadow just after sunset. Some low cumulus are lit pale yellow by the last rays of the setting sun, while even lower clouds, and much higher clouds are various shades of grey and blue. Below, on the ground, a frieze of tree silhouettes, and cars in a beachside carpark.
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
marjanknippenberg.bsky.social
One photo per day from my archive. Completely random in subject, time, location. Photos that make me happy. And hopefully you too 😊

Marjans photo #375

#photography #sunset #nature #landscape #EastCoastKin #ColoraDay #BlueTue #TidesOutTuesday #seascape
A stone cobbled steep seaside with some silhouetted dried out papaver like plants against a sky where the sun is setting. The sea in the background is gray. There are some cloud banks and the sea is turning the sky soft orange/yellow in between. Some white airplane stripes crossing each other.
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Seaside...
Gull ✔️ Rocks ✔️ Tide ✔️ Graffiti ✔️ ☺️

#AnimalArtTuesday #RockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday
#photography #birds #gull #humour #gift #EastCoastKin
A seagull in sharp focus soars over rocks and rock pools at low tide. Behind it a sea wall is completely covered in tagged graffiti.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Good Morning!
Yes, Virginia, it rains at sunrise ☺️ but it's still beautiful
Bald Knob 071241

#photography #landscape #rainscape #rain #sunrise #gift #EastCoastKin
Morning showers drifting over the Mooloolah valley are clearly highlighted by diffuse early-morning light, shining across the valley under a very low, heavy cloud cover. The trees and ridges are dimly visible.
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #Grounded birds on the ground.
I'm beginning to suspect he chooses a theme that always fits something I posted *yesterday* 🤣
Cockatoo 1, Cockatoo too, Parrot + lorikeets, Silvereye
#photography #birds #EastCoastKin
A sulphur-crested cockatoo perched in an unlikely fashion on seashore rocks, featuring that rakish, windswept look so popular nowadays Pair of red-tailed black cockatoos A king parrot on the ground, keeping its distance from a gang of marauding lorikeets A silvereye taking a break on the deck.
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Unstill life with lorikeet

#BlueSkyMonday #smArtist #ArtYear #SensoryArt
#photography #birds #lorikeets #casuarina #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
A flock of lorikeets in a shoreline casuarina tree, a wonderful contrast of shapes, colours and textures.
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
marjanknippenberg.bsky.social
One photo per day from my archive. Completely random in subject, time, location. Photos that make me happy. And hopefully you too 😊

Marjans photo #373

#photography #sunset #wijchen #nature #landscape #EastCoastKin #ColoraDay #PinkMon #BlueSkyMonday
A lake at sunset with some ducks swimming to the right ribbeling the still water in their tracks. Leafless trees and the soft pink, yellow, gray and blue sky reflected in the water.
December 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Good evening!
Blue hour, Nightcliff bay

#photography #landscape #BlueHour #sunset #gift #EastCoastKin
The last shades of pink are fading from billowy cumulus over the sea, and the sky and clouds are starting to take on evening blue
December 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Damselfly, Fogg Dam

#MacroMonday
#photography #insects #Odonata #damselfly #EastCoastKin
An unidentified damselfly perched on a twig at Fogg Dam, NT
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Blue skimmer dragonfly

#MacroMonday
#photography #insects #Odonata #dragonfly #macro #EastCoastKin
A blue skimmer dragonfly with bright aqua-blue eyes, unusually perched on a dead leaf on the forest floor, not a twig over water.
December 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Good Morning!
Mooloolah Valley mist 064630

#photography #landscape #mist #Mooloolah #sunrise #gift #EastCoastKin
Golden light from the just risen sun streams almost horizontally across successive ridges and a mist-filled valley, lighting up the mist and casting long shadows across the temporary inland sea.
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Good Evening!
A sunset for a change 🧡
Nightcliff bay, a little earlier this evening

#StunDay
#photography #sunset #landscape #cloudscape #gift #EastCoastKin
Towering cumulus clouds are backlit and transilluminated by the nearly set sun, itself obscured by cloud on the ocean horizon. The sea below is already dark, and land is in silhouette.
December 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
mlknippenberg.bsky.social
I have so many lovely pictures from this sunset at the lake. I can feel truly spoiled by nature 🧡

#photography #nature #landscape #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #Stunday #EastCoastKin #sunset #wijchen
An explosive sunset behind a fairly stil lake. The flaky clouds are turned bright orange and reflected in the water. Near the horizon some sharp bright yellows appears, left by the sun that has set. Leafless trees in the background.
December 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
mlknippenberg.bsky.social
You have to love that duck 🧡

#photography #nature #landscape #stunday #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #sunset #Wijchen
A very bright orange and yellow sunset behind a lake. The colourful sky is reflected in the still water mostly on the right side of the picture. On the left a duck just ran over the water, leaving its stepped trail behind. Some leafless trees and houses in the background. Lights leaving long reflections in the water.
December 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM