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Scratched Element
@scratchedelement.bsky.social
🏚️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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📷📸 What happened to that roaring inferno that was alight in you all this time? Did the fuel run out? Was there a catastrophic malfunction? Or did its operator simply choke the air supply seeing as its service was no longer required? #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
February 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Members of HMCS MARGARET BROOKE operate the ship's searchlights while sailing off the coast of Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, during Operation PROJECTION 25-01 on 15 March 2025. #RCN #Photos #History
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
📷📸 Some day you will close this book for the last time. Slammed shut, dust erupts into the air. No more words written or read, the contents left there to figure it out themselves. A quiet eternity passes until some curious soul stumbles upon it and wonders what these lines meant to you. #photography
February 12, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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St John Hospital (b.1952)
Detroit, Wayne County Michigan.

In the Cornerstone Village neighborhood.

📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro

#photography #nightphotography #architecture #oldbuildings #hospitals #winter #lightroom #urban #urbangaze #detroit #wayne #michigan
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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Power Lines Drawing #142 (Plymouth, MI)

marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
📷📸 This empire has such potential. Its lords haven't got a clue what happens down here in the gutters and alleys, wouldn't know true soul if it bit them in the ass. I will own all of this some day, and when I do, my, how you will be spoiled. #photography #art #nightphotography
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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📸 Olympus Point & Shoot (can't remember which)
🎞️ Svema 400
📅 July 2025
📍Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

📽️ https://www.youtube.com/@JoshFromGR

#grandrapids #michigan #filmphotography #photography #believeinfilm #35mm #blackandwhite #bw #olympus #svema
February 8, 2026 at 7:05 AM
📷📸 The machine is stuck on a single speed. Things go by too quickly to understand, but as the video feed fast-forwards you can just barely make out a frame or two where things make sense. Flashes of clarity amongst the snow caused by generation loss. #photography #art #liminalspace #michigan
February 7, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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The rolling lands used for grazing near Mills, New Mexico

#mills #newmexico #newmexicos #undefined #photography #dorothealange
February 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM
📷📸 Can you feel the warmth and welcoming of the midnight sun
Generations of labor and seas of blood went into its construction
Our minds photosynthesize its beams into ideas
Food for thought
A new kind of jungle
Our very own Darien Gap
We won't be escaping any time soon
#photography #liminalspace
February 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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" Sunday walk "
acrylic, ink on paper #drawings #sketches
January 25, 2026 at 11:19 PM
📷📸 All of the fuel has been spent, I'm completely exhausted. So what are we running on? Is someone pulling us along, or is our will just that strong? Whatever it is, best not take it for granted. Let's concentrate on getting out of this storm first. #photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace
January 30, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Warped Reality

Little more cityscape/street photography for you.

#photography #reflections #cityscape #streetphotography #architecture #minneapolis
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
📷📸 We can feel your radiance, after all this time, despite that tremendous distance. Such a presence is difficult to ignore, impossible to forget. In exchange we'll try our best to feel what you can't. Best wishes. #photography #art #liminalspace #monochrome
January 28, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic #10MinutesFromHome thanks for the reminder @paulaflucas.bsky.social that this will fit the WeekD challenge👍😎
January 28, 2026 at 6:51 PM
📷📸 You are the greatest gift I've ever received. Before you get ripped away from me like everything else, let's make this time count and make up for every moment before we were complete. #photography #art #surrealism #monochrome #forest
January 26, 2026 at 9:22 PM
📷📸 Oh, did you find that a little piece of you was missing? We were hoping you wouldn't notice, apologies. It's being used as an ingredient for something wonderful. A delicious wholesome home cooked meal made with love and care. #photography #art #industry #nightphotography #liminalspace
January 21, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Tapetum lucidum
January 21, 2026 at 7:21 PM
📷📸 Threading nerve through the eye of the needle, pulling it taught as to feel the steel intimately. Weave a cloak to conceal us both, covered, hidden from the prying eyes who would guard this place and many like it. They do not know the value of this place and do not respect it. #photography #art
January 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Not my photo because I wasn't in Berlin last week.
Evie was though.
#photography
January 19, 2026 at 10:38 PM
📷📸 When you look up at your god do you ever wonder if he's lonely? To be asked for so much, without equal, no peers or confidants? What insanity that must stir in somebody. What kind of world would they create after being driven into such madness? #photography #art
January 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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📷📸 What will you do, now that the doors have closed, locked and forced you outside? The congregation chatters and sings their gospel, each word indistinguishable from any other, but the roar of their brotherhood breaks through the walls and hits you, knocks you over. #photography #art
January 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 1:50 AM
📷📸 Keep your blade sharp. Mind your senses. The time to use the skills I've taught you may soon be upon us. #photography #art #liminalspace
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM