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Uncle Rickie
@richardgatley.bsky.social
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Professional pilot, Gulfstream G600 and amateur photographer,
Fuji X-T2, X-E3, Canon EOS 5D mk II with vintage Soviet and other lenses, Ricoh GR III and iPhone 16
(All images are by me unless stated otherwise) the.fotoapp.co/rgatley
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Uncle Rickie @richardgatley.bsky.social · Dec 15
Hello from the flight deck!
Green flight data symbology projecting on the combiner glass in the cockpit window as dawn light breaks on the horizon
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Street art in a pedestrian underpass in Almaty, Kazakhstan
#TagTuesday #EastCoastKin
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Low tide on the Isle of Wight with Portsmouth in the distance under a dawn sky.
Vintage Soviet Jupiter 37A 135mm f/3.5 on Canon EOS 5D mk II
#TidesOutTuesday #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #IsleOfWight
A couple walking on an isolated sand spit at low tide on a calm sea with a distant city skyline under a salmon and purple dawn sky
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Monochrome macro for Monday
Vintage Soviet Industar 61L/Z 50mm f/2.8 with extension rings on a Canon EOS 5D mk II
#EastCoastKin #Macro #Photography
A close up of a daisy sprinkled with dew
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A hover fly in November
Vintage Soviet Industar 61L/V 50mm f/2.8 with extension tube on a Canon EOS 5D Mk II

#MacroMonday #MacroPhotography #EastCoastKin #IsleOfWight
A hover fly on a yellow bloom A close up of a lens with a star shaped aperture and Cyrillic script
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Seaview Yacht Club in early morning light. Isle of Wight
Vintage SMC Takumar 24mm f/3.5 on a Canon EOS 5D mk II
#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #IsleofWight #Photography #colour
A colourful collection of small boats and bouys on dark wooden decking by the sea under a blue sky
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Low tide at dawn, Seaview on the Isle of Wight.
Vintage Soviet Jupiter 11A 135mm f/4, Canon EOS 5D mk II
#Seascape #EastCoastKin #PanoPhotos #PhotoHour
A misty wooded coastline with a small seaside village and an anchored vessel in the distance beyond sand flats in golden light at low tide
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Sea scape on a grey day.
Canon EOS 5D mk II with a vintage Soviet Jupiter 11A 135mm f/4 lens. Old school.
#scape #EastCoastKin #IsleOfWight #Photography
A sea marker in the foreground stands in calm water at high tide with an island vehicle ferry in the distance under a lowering sky
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is all about #Fighting
#EastCoastKin #Birds
A buzzard and a raven I think
Two birds fighting in the air, one inverted
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Sam hearing his sister upstairs…

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekSForShadows #EastCoastKin #Cat
A black cat on a blue staircase with shadows on the wall
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Big Almaty Peak
Vintage Jupiter 37A 135mm f/3.5
#MountainMonday #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Kazakhstan #PanoPhotos
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Infrared image of Ryde Cemetery.
Vintage SMC Takumar 28mm F/3.5 with 850nm infrared filter
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Stunday #NightmareNov #PhotoHour #IsleOfWight
An overgrown graveyard with leaning gravestones in white grass under a black sky
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Infrared image of Ryde Cemetery.
Vintage SMC Takumar 28mm F/3.5 with 850nm infrared filter
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Stunday #NightmareNov #PhotoHour #IsleOfWight
Gravestones and a distant church spire under a black sky with puffy white clouds
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Seaview Yacht Club
Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 (one of the radioactive ones)
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Orange #PhotoHour #IsleOfWight
A building with a wide patio on a sea wall in soft focus backlit with an orange sky
November 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Desert Dawn
#EastCoastKin #landscape #PhotoHour #PanoPhotos
Highway 374 from Beatty, Nevada runs straight through the desert scrub towards a line of distant hills on the horizon painted orange by the rising sun. Beyond the hills lies Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley.
November 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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By Chichester Canal
#BirdOfTheDay #Heron #birds #photography #Heron #EastCoastKin
A grumpy looking heron in breeding plumage raising his crest in displeasure
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Esentai River, Almaty
#Scape #EastCoastKin #PanoPhotos #RicohGRIII #PhotoHour
A dry concrete lined channel with autumn trees on the banks at night
October 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Monster storms up to 60,000 feet, Gulf of Thailand
#StormHour #EastCoastKin #PanoPhotos #weather
A line of thunderstorm with anvil tops by a hazy sea in this aerial shot from the cockpit
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A red kite over King’s Walden
#BirdOfTheDay #raptor #EastCoastKin
A large reddish bird of prey with golden eyes and outspread wings banks to the left in a pale blue sky
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Rainy night
#EastCoastKin #StormHour #Weather
A high angle long exposure of red traffic lights and car brake lights on a wet street at night with people hurrying under falling rain that’s highlighted by white streetlights
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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High above the traffic
#CockpitViews #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour
Cockpit view of contrails below over a layer of cloud under a deep blue sky
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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A male Moluccan eclectus in Singapore
#BirdOfTheDay #Green #EastCoastKin
A green parrot amongst green leaves looks at the camera
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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An oriental pied hornbill in Singapore
#BirdOfTheDay #urban #Character #EastCoastKin
A large black and white bird with a huge beak and prominent eyelashes clings to a slim palm trunk and looks directly at the camera A large black and white bird with a huge beak and prominent eyelashes clings to a slim palm trunk under a cluster of orange fruit and gives the camera a side-eye
October 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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By the Marmara Sea
7Artisans 7.5mm f/2.8 fisheye lens
#ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PanoPhotos #PhotoHour
Tall residential buildings backlit by a low sun
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Pareidolia
#pareidolia #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #ClassicMono
Wall socket looks like a face Wall socket looks like a face
October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Monitoring everything continuously. When necessary I’ll tell the aircraft to make a change via the autopilot…it’s not flying, I am. Maintaining assigned course, altitude, vertical profiles and power settings is what it does. Until I alter instructions or disconnect it and take over.
Two pilots in a cockpit with illuminated displays at night
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM