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scratchedelement.bsky.social
Scratched Element
@scratchedelement.bsky.social
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🏚️So, you've come back.
🫂I'm so glad you could join me,
🚦That little voice in your head.
👁️Replace your eyes with mine and
🏭I'll show you how things really are.

Original photography daily 📍 Grand Rapids, MI
https://www.instagram.com/scratchedelement
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Scratched Element @scratchedelement.bsky.social · May 23
Now I'm not just in your walls, I'm on them too. You can now buy prints of my work.
scratchedelement.darkroom.com
High quality museum grade 100% cotton paper, as well as high contrast metal and framed shots, shipped straight to you. 🫵
Prices are low now, but act fast because nothing lasts forever. 👁️
A selection of varied and beautiful art for your loyal consumption
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ersatz.bsky.social
Flurry
December 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Between classes I would come outside and I would see you here, relaxing, reading, seeing something that made you smile. Just seeing you happy was enough to make me smile too. I wish you hadn't run away. #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
A covered walkway, lined with brick pillars and uncomfortable looking benches. There are signs of past traffic. It's too late to hang around for too long.
December 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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gambolloch.bsky.social
snow squall
Hillsboro, Kansas
#photography
A lane road entrance to dirt road surrounded by fields. Some snow is falling
December 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 We've got a long, long way to go. In fact, I'm not even sure is this path ever ends. But look how far we've come. Don't falter now. Swallow your homesickness. #photography #nightphotography #liminalspace #art
A double set of train tracks that seems to go in forever.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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ersatz.bsky.social
Monochromatic memories
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Just because the plans are laid out doesn't mean that it'll be easy street. We've opened the door for you but that's it. Now it's your responsibility to make a new, better reality. It's time to get moving, there's work to be done. #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
A hazy alley late at night. The weeds are starting to get overgrown. A dumpster sits loyally and blissfully unaware of everything around it.
December 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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bildolak.bsky.social
Will the last one to leave please turn off the lights?

Maple Hill Mall parking lot, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Was filled with cars shopping for Christmas - thirty years ago.

#photography #nightphotography #night #parkinglot #winter #snow #kalamazoo #michigan
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 I am on a hair trigger
Ready to bolt like lightning at the slightest provocation
But you wouldn't do that to me, would you
You are aware of the power that you carry
A responsible idol
Ten thousand volts curve up and around me, into you
You take it all just for me without complaints
Thank you
A hazy street at night. There is nobody. Looking up at the utility pole decked out with its gadgets and transformers.
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 I am so incredibly happy for you
Seeing you belong lights me on fire inside
Seeing you tame the beast that I've never been able to make peace with
I can imagine how satisfying it is
And I will
Because imagination is all I have left
#photography #art #surrealism #poetry
A utility pole in daylight. One of many on the grid. The colors are wrong. I will stand with you but I will not cheer for you I am willing to smile for you
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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pmccombe.bsky.social
Always loved this painting from a few years back now. Our disabled dachshund Pickle!

#oilpaint #petportrait #artwork #painting
Oilpainting of Pickle, our disabled dachshund.
November 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 One man's trash is another man's treasure, but why are men so obsessed with garbage? #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography #streetphotography
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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sicksyn.bsky.social
@modeladventurer.bsky.social | $1©K §¥N M∆GAZ!N€ #art #photography #SickSynMagazine
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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gewilli.bsky.social
Summer Double Exposure

2024

📷 Pentax 17
🎞️ @ilfordphoto.com Delta 100
⚗️ D-76 undiluted 7'

#believeinfilm #hff
A photo of a man cycling across the india point park pedestrian bridge with the large pylon as the second exposure overlayed perfectly on top of him
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Slapping a new coat of paint on an old shed?
All the old wood is still there.
The rot continues under the lipstick you put on this old pig. #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
An American suburban home in a low income neighborhood. The lights are out.
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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atlasboscrispa.bsky.social
Zilwaukee Bridge (b.~1980's)
Zilwaukee, Saginaw County Michigan.

I75's crossing over the Saginaw River.
8000ft long and 125ft tall.

I hate driving over high-ass bridges like this...

#photography #nightphotography #night #infrastructure #bridges #snow #snowing #zilwaukee #saginaw #michigan
A long concrete bridge stretching over a snow covered road in a snow storm.
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Let's go treasure hunting, what do you say? Everyone knows that they keep the good stuff behind the gate. #photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #rustbelt #michigan #midwest
A misty street at night under the warm glow of artificial light. It's very quiet. An empty road bordered by trees and single level structures. A sign indicates that a stop sign is ahead. Two orange flags are affixed to it in an attempt to steal your attention. An industrial building with a large brick smoke stack. It's after hours so there's no one here.
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Schuylkill Mall planter from my visit in August of 2017 with a great sense of impending doom lurking just beyond the concourse. This Crown American legend was demolished shortly after my visit. Full video and Epilogue amidst the demolition here:
youtube.com/sal

#deadmall #abandoned #liminalspace
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 It took too many years for you to find me. Someone should be ashamed but I'm not sure who. Maybe you can help me figure that out. This blame is burning a hole in my pocket and it deserves to be kicked over to someone else. #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
An empty semi-rural two lane road at night. A light mist hangs in the air.
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 I used to make fun of all the people who got lost in here. Now I'm lost too. Jokes on me, I guess. No one would ever get lost again if they just cut all of this down, blended it to bits and burned it. Well, if you want a job done right... #photography #art #abstract #longexposure
A flash photo of leaves. The background twists until it's not recognizable anymore. A flash photo of the underside of a tree canopy. It's impossible to know your bearings. A flash photo of a branch. No one will find us here. A photo of two trees. Reality spins.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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my-liquid-head.bsky.social
Expect more power lines and barbed wire shots from me as we head into winter.

#BlueSkyMonday #infrared #photography #cloud
Power lines and a pole standing above the trees. The sky is deep blue with some white clouds.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 The well on their side has run dry
Envious eyes peer over the divide
A hand reaches out, asking for charity
But we both know what will happen if we extend our generosity
Kiss your arm goodbye
#photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace
A young tree peers over a set of fences. It's dark except for the light illuminating their side.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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emperorwilson.bsky.social
Tower at Elitch Gardens, Denver. Multiple-exposure negative scan.
#filmphotography #abstract #surreal #film #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #analog #photography
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 When we locked eyes while we were out
I averted my gaze but you did not
My attention drawn to losing your attention
But you made a bee line for me
I had fallen for the oldest trick in the book
Here comes the shark's fin
#photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #rustbelt #michigan
A three way intersection at night. The faint glow of a distant city. A locked gate. There's no reason to go beyond it anyway.
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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huefey.bsky.social
Blue #photo
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 When heaven sent you everything changed
A fixation formed, inescapable
You replaced my core, my every thought
Every room upstairs taken up by your clutter
It's too bad that only now I realize
After all of the destruction
Where you were really sent from
#photography #art #nightphotography #poetry
A hazy suburban back alley at night. There's no reason to be here right now.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM