Curtis Burns
@thatturtle.bsky.social
Do you see what I see.
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"... tell me you have dreamed / of lifting your left foot closer / to flight, that you, too, would die happiest / by music..." Ocean Vuong 'In Defence of Dancing'
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"... tell me you have dreamed / of lifting your left foot closer / to flight, that you, too, would die happiest / by music..." Ocean Vuong 'In Defence of Dancing'
Pinned
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Fire escape and icicles
#filmphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #urbanphotography #filmisnotdead #photography #mediumformat
📷 Lubitel 166 Universal
🎞️ Kentmere 200
🧪 Ilfosol 3 (1:14) 7m23s @20.5C
#filmphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #urbanphotography #filmisnotdead #photography #mediumformat
📷 Lubitel 166 Universal
🎞️ Kentmere 200
🧪 Ilfosol 3 (1:14) 7m23s @20.5C
February 15, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Fire escape and icicles
#filmphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #urbanphotography #filmisnotdead #photography #mediumformat
📷 Lubitel 166 Universal
🎞️ Kentmere 200
🧪 Ilfosol 3 (1:14) 7m23s @20.5C
#filmphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #urbanphotography #filmisnotdead #photography #mediumformat
📷 Lubitel 166 Universal
🎞️ Kentmere 200
🧪 Ilfosol 3 (1:14) 7m23s @20.5C
Kitchen Abstracts #photography #SilentSunday #blackandwhitephotography #abstractphotography #EastCoastKin
February 15, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Kitchen Abstracts #photography #SilentSunday #blackandwhitephotography #abstractphotography #EastCoastKin
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In this sonnet Heaney is in conversation with the Billie Holiday song, connecting killings of the past to contemporary ones
In a provocative last line, unlike Diodorus who documents ritual killing to explain the past, Heaney uses it to trouble the present
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
In a provocative last line, unlike Diodorus who documents ritual killing to explain the past, Heaney uses it to trouble the present
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
February 15, 2026 at 11:38 AM
In this sonnet Heaney is in conversation with the Billie Holiday song, connecting killings of the past to contemporary ones
In a provocative last line, unlike Diodorus who documents ritual killing to explain the past, Heaney uses it to trouble the present
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
In a provocative last line, unlike Diodorus who documents ritual killing to explain the past, Heaney uses it to trouble the present
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
Icicle Works #photography #abstractphotography #minimalistphotography #SilentSunday #EastCoastKin #Stunday
February 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Kitchen Abstracts #photography #SilentSunday #blackandwhitephotography #abstractphotography #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed
February 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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Time to go through my mutuals' work of the week for the #SundayShout-Out on #Stunday to find and present and praise the most stunning, innovative, moving, beautiful, thought-provoking and personal photography of the week that was. Time to be amazed.
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1/x
February 15, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Time to go through my mutuals' work of the week for the #SundayShout-Out on #Stunday to find and present and praise the most stunning, innovative, moving, beautiful, thought-provoking and personal photography of the week that was. Time to be amazed.
1/x
1/x
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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i held in the breath of the mountains
swirling of regret, irony, knowledge
now in the thin air
clarity has been a bearer of gifts
just be
just be
swirling of regret, irony, knowledge
now in the thin air
clarity has been a bearer of gifts
just be
just be
February 15, 2026 at 1:24 AM
i held in the breath of the mountains
swirling of regret, irony, knowledge
now in the thin air
clarity has been a bearer of gifts
just be
just be
swirling of regret, irony, knowledge
now in the thin air
clarity has been a bearer of gifts
just be
just be
Mind how you go - A Mix
1. Marching with Honor - Muhal Richard Abrams
2. Mr. Brown (Cold Sweat) - Art Turk Burton and Congo Square with Ari Brown
3. Rahsaan in the Serengeti - Mike Reed, Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas, & Marvin Tate
4. The Inflated Tear - Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins, & Jim Black
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1. Marching with Honor - Muhal Richard Abrams
2. Mr. Brown (Cold Sweat) - Art Turk Burton and Congo Square with Ari Brown
3. Rahsaan in the Serengeti - Mike Reed, Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas, & Marvin Tate
4. The Inflated Tear - Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins, & Jim Black
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February 14, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Mind how you go - A Mix
1. Marching with Honor - Muhal Richard Abrams
2. Mr. Brown (Cold Sweat) - Art Turk Burton and Congo Square with Ari Brown
3. Rahsaan in the Serengeti - Mike Reed, Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas, & Marvin Tate
4. The Inflated Tear - Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins, & Jim Black
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1. Marching with Honor - Muhal Richard Abrams
2. Mr. Brown (Cold Sweat) - Art Turk Burton and Congo Square with Ari Brown
3. Rahsaan in the Serengeti - Mike Reed, Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas, & Marvin Tate
4. The Inflated Tear - Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins, & Jim Black
…
February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
February 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Weatherworn #RandomHeart #HappyValentinesDay 📷©vivibene1
February 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Weatherworn #RandomHeart #HappyValentinesDay 📷©vivibene1
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February 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Kitchen Abstracts #photography #blackandwhitephotography #abstractphotography #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
February 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Kitchen Abstracts #photography #blackandwhitephotography #abstractphotography #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
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For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time, and there is another city which you leave never to return.
Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
February 13, 2026 at 11:08 PM
For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time, and there is another city which you leave never to return.
Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #birds #birdphotography #gulls #EastCoastKin #Scape #landscape #FlyDay #ClassicMono
February 14, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Blooming between us - A Mix
1. Nightclouds Variation - Ellen Arkbro
2. And by and by a Cloud Takes All Away - The Soft Pink Truth
3. Cloud Land - Stereolab
4. Puffy - Constant Mongrel
5. Ababa hôtel - Angine de Poitrine
6. Cloudland - Lars Danielson
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1. Nightclouds Variation - Ellen Arkbro
2. And by and by a Cloud Takes All Away - The Soft Pink Truth
3. Cloud Land - Stereolab
4. Puffy - Constant Mongrel
5. Ababa hôtel - Angine de Poitrine
6. Cloudland - Lars Danielson
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February 14, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Blooming between us - A Mix
1. Nightclouds Variation - Ellen Arkbro
2. And by and by a Cloud Takes All Away - The Soft Pink Truth
3. Cloud Land - Stereolab
4. Puffy - Constant Mongrel
5. Ababa hôtel - Angine de Poitrine
6. Cloudland - Lars Danielson
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1. Nightclouds Variation - Ellen Arkbro
2. And by and by a Cloud Takes All Away - The Soft Pink Truth
3. Cloud Land - Stereolab
4. Puffy - Constant Mongrel
5. Ababa hôtel - Angine de Poitrine
6. Cloudland - Lars Danielson
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