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Rob Ralley
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Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.
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Houses, autumn afternoon.
📷 #photography
A row of three three-storey houses, so identical with small first-floor balconies. The middle house has a solar panel on the roof. In front are low hedges and grass, and blue sky is partly concealed by a dark cloud. Although the blue is bright, the scenery is gloomy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Passing shower.
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An autumn view of a field (brown with a thin covering of new grass after the harvesting of the crop), lines across it and a pole in the middle, a tree on the right and more along the hedgerow in the distance. The horizon is visible beyond that. Above and far off, a curtain of rain is falling from the raincloud overhead.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Under the trees.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography
A view along a pavement between an old brown-brick building (two-storeys with a low roof) on the left and a line of trees (bare-branched) on the right. Sun from behind the trees is casting a series of shadows across the pavement.
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Signpost shadow.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography
A stretch of yellow-brick wall with a band of moss near the top and paving in front of it; across the wall are the shadows of a lamppost and a signpost.
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Autumn #evening in the park.
#BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
View across grass to layers of cloud above the horizon bathed from below in gold light. On either side of the picture are trees and shrubs with bare branches and autumnal leaves, and there is a scattering of bright leaves across the dark grass.
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Ely view: a bus shelter, the end wall of Oliver Cromwell's House (with tree shadow), and the steeple of St Mary's church.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows and #scape 📷 #photography
The end of an old half-timbered house, with yellow bricks on its end wall and lower storey, and a tree beside it casting a shadow across the end wall. Next to it is a wall and in front of that a bus shelter. Someone is about to walk past. In the background is the steeple of a church whose stonework matches in colour the bricks. It is sunlit from one side.
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Thursday 2 November 1620, 9:38 AM, and Napier is having child-wrangling problems: 'my boyes would not goe to schoole'. #earlymodern
Manuscript image of the quoted text (NOTE7139 on the Casebooks site).
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Railway bridge.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography
A view across the road running under Ely's railway bridge, which has a gap down the centre through which sunlight is casting shadows of railings onto the pavement and wall.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Urban tree.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows and #WallsOnWednesday 📷 #photography
An expanse of modern red brick wall, with several columns of aligned brick-edges suggesting a walled-up opening of some kind, and a broad white stripe painted across near the top; above that, at the very top left of the frame, is the bottom of a multi-coloured sign. In the top right corner is a branch of a tree growing in front of the wall, and the shadow of the whole tree is clearly delineated across the wall.
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Moonrise this evening over the railway line and Cathedral Marina, Ely.
📷 #photography
A view across a marina with boats, cars and trees all visible; above and beyond them a train is running past, and above that, gentle sunset colours in the sky and a bright moon.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Picture frames.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows 📷 #photography
The edges of two picture frames side by side against a white wall, with sunlight shining at a low angle on their lower halves - casting a wide shadow at the outer edge of one frame, a narrow shadow at the inner edge of the other, and a diagonal shadow across the top half of the image where the top of the window has obscured the sunlight.
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Chimney.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows #BlueSkyMonday 📷 #photography
Two house roofs, the more distant one with a television aerial mounted at the far gable end, the closer with a television aerial mounted on a chimney. The (brown-brick) chimney has three pots and the shadow of an identically shaped chimney and pots on its side. The sky behind is clear and blue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Sea and rock.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock 📷 #photography
Grey sea under a grey sky, but sparkling with rejected sunlight. One spit of jagged rock intrudes into the picture from the left, then further off another thinner one intrudes from the right.
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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#Autumn among the pines.
#BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
A view between rows of trees in a pine plantation, with orange-brown bracken across the ground and loose piles of tree branches.
November 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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For #halloween a view of St Kentigern's, Caldbeck.
#ClassicMono 📷 #photography
A view of the east end of a church with a five-light east window. In the foreground is a bare tree, arching across the top of the picture; the churchyard is at a higher level than the camera and gravestones and daffodils are scattered about in front of the church.
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Rocks and sea.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #scape 📷 #photography
A view out to sea on a grey day. In the foreground grass gives way to a rocky shore, then a few metres away there are white trails of foam broken around two rocks standing up out of the water.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Ship Lane, Ely.
#UrbanGaze 📷 #photography
View along a short street with old yellow-brick domestic buildings on the right and grass and a tree on the left. The road has double yellow lines and runs up to bollards, just visible, and newer houses. There is dark grey cloud overhead and soft light catching the houses and the tree. A cyclist is heading away from the camera.
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Castlerigg stone circle.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock 📷 #photography
A partial view of a stone circle late on a spring day, with a blue sky above and golden light across the landscape. The grass around the stones is mown short and there are Lake District fells in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The Cairn, Isle of Whithorn.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock 📷 #photography
A small whitewashed square tower with a crenellated top and an aerial sticking out, atop a grassy mound with a handful of substantial rocks lying on and in front of the grass. There are glimpses of blue sky between grey clouds.
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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#histmed #astrology #histsci #earlymodern
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Rocky shore at evening, Arran.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock 📷 #photography
An evening view of golden sunlight on rocks with sea beyond and grey clouds drifting overhead.
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Aldeburgh churchyard, autumn.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet 📷 #photography
A graveyard with rows of old gravestones, most leaning forwards or backwards. There are two trees in full autumn colour in amongst the graves (with a bug hotel at the foot of the nearer one), and the ground is covered in a carpet of orange leaves. In the distance there are more graves, surrounded by grass with no leaves on top.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Late light and raincloud this afternoon.
📷 #photography
A modern yellow-brick suburban house (partly covered in a cream-coloured render) with others beside and behind it, caught in rich low-angle sunlight, which is also reflecting off a window onto the road in front. Behind everything is a dark blue raincloud.
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Cafe interior: Sunday morning, before the rush.
#BlueskyArtShow #inside and #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet 📷 #photography
A corner of a cafe inside an old stable block on the Wimpole estate. Under a tall window is a wooden table with four brown chairs around it, a cabinet of shelves holding teapots and jugs, and low lighting producing an orangey glow on the wall.
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM