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James Randall
@randalljamesp.bsky.social
writer, editor - wild stories & things mostly, for adults & children, incl. illustrated folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins. PhD, Goldsmiths (literature, 2018).
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Early stroll. Those clouds look like paintings of old snow. Two leaning streetlights like cocktail sticks in a pot. A late/early Christmas tree in a window. Am I on the fringes of that passing motorbike’s dream? I break a puddle’s fragile window.
January 20, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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a foggy day in the forest.
January 20, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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"Magic in the Garden" or "Stars and Sprites" by artist Jon Carling.

@joncarling.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Here’s a selection of winter scenes I’ve shot in the past month or so. Some abstract, some trees, some landscapes from either my camera or drone. All from the Scottish Highlands, in the Cairngorms National Park.

Do you have a favourite?
January 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Tiny freshwater crustaceans commonly called water fleas (genus Cyclops, >400 species) are thought to be the only living creatures with a single eye.

Photo credit: microscopy-uk.org.uk
January 19, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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A swirl of sky

#DevonandCornwall
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
5pm: first light, last light, a flare fading into the night
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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First light
off Irish coast, 7:59
January 19, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare’s?

[…] Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it.

(Moby-Dick, Ch. 74)

#MelvilleMonday 🐳
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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African Daisy (Osteospermum)
#art
#photography
#flowers
#macro
January 18, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Sabra Field :
Even The Night Shall Be Light About Me, 1985-86

Archival pigment woodblock print
36.5 x 24.5 inches
January 18, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Fancy a brief escape into the wild world of an Irish Atlantic rainforest mini waterfall?

Both we and nature need a lot more of this, and rewilding is how we make it happen.
🌍
January 18, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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For #NationalSaveTheEaglesDay on #Woodensday:
Kiddie-car ride-on (#eagle)
S. A. Smith Mfg. Co., Brattleboro, VT. 1915-20
painted wood
Strong National Museum Of Play 75.915
artsandculture.google.com/asset/kiddie...
#birdsinart
January 11, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Zhang Jian-Jun, Chinese (1955- ), Water & Fire #16, 2016, ink, water, fire on watercolor paper, 83 x 64 cm, private collection
January 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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At City of Rocks…
New Mexico…
January 18, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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Miniature llama figurine of hammered gold, probably deposited as an offering. 6.3cm high. #Peru, c. 1500 (British Museum)
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Musique de Varèse, 1931 by Alexander Calder
January 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Mythos Odùduwà (1963)
Susanne Wenger
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
January 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
a squirrel-eye view
January 17, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Amazing fluorescence on these Namib sand geckos (Pachydactylus rangei)
💙👁💚

Photography by Alien Creatures [FB]

#geckos #nature #reptiles #blue
January 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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For the early birds..
January 16, 2026 at 9:23 AM