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MangledMe
@mangled.me
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Software developer, amateur musician, author, and photographer. Passionate about ecological sustainability, equitable wealth distribution, and fostering independence and freedom for Scotland as part of a fairer, freer world. https://www.mangled.me
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Ceiling 1 #MinimalMonday #Monochrome #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
Black and white photograph looking up through a rectangular ceiling opening to the underside of the floor structure above.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Headland #stunday #landscape #photography
Dramatic coastal landscape with a towering cliff headland rising from a rocky beach, waves crashing against the shore under an overcast sky
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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End of the #Evening #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #peergroupweekly #Edinburgh #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
A deserted tram stop in the evening, with rows of ticket machines standing sentinel under stark street lights, their screens glowing against the darkened sky and wet pavement.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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#Evening Ritual #BlueSkyArtShow #Edinburgh #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
A glowing red Tennent's lager sign beneath the Beechwood Bowling Club sign (in Murrayfield) in the evening darkness, with distant lights dotting the black sky below.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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3 AM #peergroupweekly #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
Nighttime photograph of a black building facade with brown sliding doors, lit by a single light in an otherwise pitch-black parking lot. White parking space markings stretch across the empty asphalt in the foreground. The scene suggests stories about late-night workers, empty cities, or the quiet moments between human activity.
November 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Under #Autumn Light #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Photography
A street lamp illuminates autumn foliage at night, its bright light catching the orange, yellow, and rust-colored leaves of a tree against the darkness. The bare branches interweave with the remaining foliage, creating a glowing crown around the lamp in the deep black of night, evoking the quiet solitude of autumn evenings.
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Concrete Canvas #WallsOnWednesday #ClassicMono #Graffiti #Streetart #Photography
A black and white nighttime photograph of street art on a deteriorating concrete wall. Multiple overlapping graffiti tags are illuminated against darkness, creating stark contrast between light and shadow. The aged wall shows texture, staining, and cracks. Rocky rubble and wild plants frame the base of the wall. The dramatic lighting emphasizes the textural quality of both the concrete surface and the layered spray paint.
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Spotlit #Stunday #Edinburgh #ArtYear #peergroupweekly #Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
A nighttime photograph of an empty sports field (Murrayfield) illuminated by a single tall floodlight tower. The light creates a bright circular pool of green-yellow illumination on the grass, sharply contrasting with the surrounding darkness. The sky shows deep teal-blue tones with dark clouds. Distant buildings with scattered lights are barely visible on the left horizon. The vast majority of the frame is consumed by darkness, with only the isolated lit circle providing detail.
October 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Uninvited #Inside #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #ClassicMono #Minimalist #Photography
A view through a doorway into an illuminated interior, photographed from complete darkness. The vertical opening reveals the inside of a room where light illuminates the upper walls and a large exercise mat rests on the floor. The narrow doorway frames this glimpse of the interior as a stark vertical rectangle of light suspended in an otherwise pure black void.
October 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Occupied #Inside #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography
A narrow multi-story brick building photographed at night, surrounded by complete darkness. Four levels of windows glow with warm yellow light from inside, arranged vertically up the red-brown brick facade. A single streetlamp illuminates the lower left corner. The building appears isolated and suspended in a black void, with only a fragment of tree foliage barely visible in the upper right catching ambient light.
October 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Last Light #Vertical #BlueSkyArtShow #peergroupweekly #ArtYear #Edinburgh #ClassicMono #Photography
A stark black and white night photograph featuring a single tall street lamp rising vertically through the center of the frame. The lamp's bright light creates a pronounced glow against the deep black sky. Below, an empty paved area and metal fencing are barely visible in the darkness, with distant house lights dotting the far background. The composition is dominated by negative space, emphasizing the solitary vertical element.
October 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Rising #Vertical #BlueSkyArtShow #ClassicMono #Photography
A dramatic black and white upward view of a curved modern building facade with a repetitive grid of windows. The illuminated curved structure rises vertically through the center of the frame, flanked by darker building masses on either side. At the bottom, geometric bright shapes provide contrast, while the composition emphasizes the towering vertical ascent of the architecture.
October 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Graduated Geometry #MinimalMonday #Monochrome #Photography
A minimalist architectural photograph showing six square recessed windows arranged in a horizontal line across a pale wall. The windows graduate in size from small on the left to large on the right, creating a rhythmic progression. Each opening reveals a dark interior that contrasts sharply with the light-colored wall, while subtle gradients of shadow transition from the bright frames into the black depths.
October 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Urban #Glow #BlueSkyArtShow #peergroupweekly #ArtYear #Edinburgh #Photography
A black and white photograph captured at twilight showing an urban landscape dominated by artificial glow. The foreground is a large, dark open field with a solitary silhouetted figure standing in the vast empty space. Across the middle distance, a row of mature trees creates a dark barrier, behind which multiple street lamps and sports lights create brilliant star-burst effects - the urban glow piercing through the dusk. A construction crane rises on the right, and low buildings line the horizon beneath dramatic clouds where natural light is fading. The image captures that threshold moment when the city's artificial illumination overtakes the last natural light, creating a complex interplay between darkness and urban radiance.
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Borrowed Light #Glow #BlueSkyArtShow #skygazing #Photography
A black and white photograph with stark, minimal composition. A nearly full moon occupies the upper-center portion of the frame, glowing with reflected sunlight against the deep black sky. The moon appears luminous and textured with visible surface details - a borrowed radiance rather than its own light source. The moon is small in the frame, emphasizing its isolation in the vast darkness. In the lower third of the image, silhouetted tree branches or foliage create an organic, irregular dark mass, their details rendered as pure black shapes against the slightly lighter sky. The overall effect is one of quiet solitude and dramatic tonal contrast between the moon's reflected glow and the surrounding darkness.
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Inhale #Relax #BlueSkyArtShow #Composite #Photography
This photograph is taken from ground level (a field in France), looking out across a wild meadow on a peaceful summer day. The foreground is filled with lush green grasses, wildflowers including delicate white Queen Anne's lace, and tall stems reaching upward. Beyond this intimate tangle of vegetation, an expansive green field stretches to the distant horizon where a line of trees marks the edge. Above, soft white clouds drift across a gentle blue sky. The low perspective invites you to lie back in the grass and simply be present in this quiet, unhurried moment.
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Exhale #Relax #Sky #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography
This photograph captures an expansive evening sky filled with soft, billowing clouds in soothing layers of coral, peach, and orange, contrasted against calming blues and greys. The warmest light glows through the center of the composition, creating a sense of gentle release as day transitions to evening. The vast openness invites a deep breath and a moment of pause.
October 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Intervals of Light #WindowsOnWednesday #Abstract #Minimalist #Photography
A high-contrast black and white photograph capturing window light casting geometric shadows across a surface. Brilliant white rectangular shapes—light streaming through window panes—cut diagonally across a deep black background, creating a dynamic composition of sharp angles. The light forms appear slightly soft at their edges, with subtle texture and gradation visible within the illuminated areas. The diagonal orientation creates strong visual movement from lower right to upper left. The interplay between the stark black shadows and bright white light creates a bold, graphic pattern that transforms the ordinary phenomenon of window light into pure geometric abstraction.
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Aperture #MinimalMonday #Monochrome #Abstract #Photography
A stark, minimalist composition in monochromatic tones featuring a perfect circular void or opening centered in the frame. The circle appears as deep black, creating a strong focal point against textured surfaces. The upper portion shows a darker, rough-textured surface, while the lower section reveals lighter, more granular terrain with grass-like textures emerging from the bottom edge. The image has a dramatic, almost abstract quality with strong contrast between the void and its surrounding materials.
September 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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A Tree #Monochrome #Stunday #Photography
This black and white photograph captures a majestic, mature tree as the central subject, with its thick trunk and expansive canopy of dense foliage dominating the frame. The tree stands in a park, with other smaller trees visible in the background on both sides. The sky shows dramatic cloud formations with streaking patterns. The lighting creates strong contrast between the dark silhouette of the tree's foliage and the bright, textured sky above. The composition emphasizes the tree's impressive size and stately presence against the dynamic sky, creating a sense of permanence and natural grandeur in the landscape.
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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#Constellations #ArtYear #peergroupweekly #SleepySep #abstract #Photography
This photograph shows an intricate network of intersecting metal rods or wires creating a complex three-dimensional geometric pattern against a light background, resembling an abstract constellation map. The linear elements cross and connect at various angles like celestial pathways linking stars, forming an irregular lattice structure that fills the entire frame. Some lines appear closer to the viewer while others recede into the background, creating the sense of looking up into a three-dimensional star field. The metal framework forms triangular and polygonal shapes of varying sizes, with multiple connection points where the rods meet, mimicking how we might imagine invisible lines connecting stars into constellation patterns. The overall effect suggests a skeletal map of the heavens, with the dark linear elements creating stark contrast against the pale sky background, as if viewing constellation diagrams projected into space itself.
September 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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#TheRoad to Recovery? #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography
This black and white photograph shows empty medicine blister packs scattered across a dark background. The metallic strips, which once held pills or tablets, are now hollow with their contents removed, creating patterns of oval and circular voids. The strips overlap and curl naturally, some catching dramatic lighting that creates strong shadows and highlights against the deep black surface. The arrangement appears organic and unplanned, as if the empty packets have accumulated over time. The clinical, silvery appearance of the medical packaging contrasts starkly with the darkness surrounding them, while the empty spaces where medication once sat tell a story of treatment completed and progress made along a road to healing, may-be...
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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#TheRoad to Enlightenment #Abstract #Composition #ArtYear #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography
This composite of images shows a dramatic cracked surface stretching toward the horizon, with a central fissure that forms a road-like path leading directly into a towering, storm-filled sky. The fractured terrain creates scattered pools that reflect the turbulent clouds above, while golden sunlight breaks through the grey and blue formations. The central crack acts as a pathway drawing the eye from the foreground straight toward the luminous, clouds on the horizon, creating the impression of a road that leads from earth directly into the heavens.
September 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Sky and Steel #Edinburgh #skygazing #clouds #Stunday #Photography
A landscape photograph capturing a sunset sky dominated by intense magenta and deep red clouds streaking across a dark purple-blue sky. The clouds create sweeping horizontal bands of color that fill most of the frame. In the foreground, silhouetted against this vibrant sky, are dark tree lines on either side creating a valley or clearing in the middle. A tall construction crane stands prominently in the center of the composition, its angular form creating a stark vertical line against the colorful sky. The entire foreground landscape appears as dark silhouettes, emphasizing the brilliant contrast with the dramatic sky above. The image has a very cinematic quality with the intense color saturation and the lone crane creating an almost industrial sublime against the natural drama of the sky.
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Convergence #Angles #BlueSkyArtShow #peergroupweekly #ArtYear #Photography
This color photograph captures a view through a modern steel and glass walkway. The composition is dominated by bold diagonal steel beams creating strong angular patterns across the frame, with large triangular glass panels filling the spaces between the structural elements. Through the transparent surfaces, you can see concrete infrastructure and trees in the background, creating multiple layers of geometric relationships. The blue-tinted atmosphere and the interplay of the steel framework with the glass creates a complex web of intersecting angles and sight lines.
September 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM