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Bob
@actualbob.art
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Egalitarian, feminist, seasonal paddler, photographer, reader, maker and independent software developer. Most posts are square framed iPhone photographs.
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Bob @actualbob.art · Sep 2
Paddling into an August sunrise in northern #Minnesota. #photography
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Conical turret with a narrow band of windows #cityscape
A conical, shingled turret with a narrow band of white dormer windows is framed by dark, leafless tree branches and evergreen trees, bathed in the warm, morning sun. Architectural details includes a glimpse of a chimney and the sharp roofline of an adjacent Victorian-style house. A close-up view of the upper part of a dark, shingled conical turret. The structure has a white, square cupola section with three bright, sunlit rectangular windows on all four sides, casting a warm interior glow and highlighting the texture of the roof shingles. Leafless branches hang in the foreground.
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2020)

The Magpie Aesthetic

If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up whatever is around.
– Sally Mann
A close-up photograph of a person wearing a silver bee pendant necklace over an orange t-shirt and partially open plaid shirt. The person is also wearing a blue quilted jacket and a gold wedding band on their left hand.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus (1923 – 1971)
richardmortimer.bsky.social richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 3d
The Ghost of James Joyce, Dublin
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
monotyping.bsky.social robin richmond @monotyping.bsky.social · 1d
Car park life. Munchen
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
A first-person point of view looking down at a pair of hiking boots propped up against a scenic backdrop. The boots—acting as the photographer's 'getaway vehicle'—point toward a calm lake, a distant line of green island trees, and a vast blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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📱 | Deserted Village, Watchung Reservation, NJ (2016)
#WeekUforUnloved #AlphabetChallenge
Monochrome photograph showing the skeletal wood frame remains of a dilapidated house in the Deserted Village. Strong shafts of sunlight stream through the open roof rafters and exposed wall studs, casting long shadows across the rotting floorboards and scattered debris. Through the missing walls is a dense forest of leafless trees.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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📱 | Mountain Manor Resort, Marshalls Creek, PA (2016)
#WindowsOnWednesday #WeekUforUnloved #AlphabetChallenge
Interior of an abandoned indoor swimming pool at a resort in Marshalls Creek, PA. A large section of the roof has collapsed, exposing the room to the sky and allowing sunlight to stream in. The room has peeling pink and red walls, large grid windows, and an empty, stained pool basin with blue tile coping. Debris and small ferns cover the floor where the ceiling has caved in.
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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📱 | Mountain Manor Resort, Marshalls Creek, PA (2016)
No. 65
#WeekUforUnloved #AlphabetChallenge
The exterior of an abandoned resort room, number 65, in a state of decay. The white cinder-block wall is stained and the ground is covered in dead leaves, dry weeds, and debris. The large front window is shattered, with torn, dirty white curtains hanging inside. The door to room 65 is open, revealing a dark interior. A peeling red support pole stands in front of the broken window.
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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📱 | Mountain Manor Resort, Marshalls Creek, PA (2016)
#WeekUforUnloved #AlphabetChallenge
A photograph looking over the stainless steel rails of an abandoned indoor swimming pool. The pool is empty except for a dark, mirrored puddle in the foreground. The basin is filled with rubble, shattered concrete, broken tiles, and plant growth, contrasting with the faded pink and green walls of the defunct resort building.
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
A looking glass
A close-up view of two framed objects on a white wall. On the left is a tall, black-framed print by CB Sherlock with a textured monochrome rendering of a Montana landscape. To the right is a small, rectangular mirror within a dark wood frame, reflecting the artwork and a bright, abstract splash of yellow and orange sunlight from an adjacent window.
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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This 👇
monotyping.bsky.social robin richmond @monotyping.bsky.social · 3d
Olympia-Einkaufszentrum, Munich
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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this is where I post from if you even care
A vintage-style, sepia-toned photograph taken by the author circa 1973 in a junk shop somewhere near the Great Swamp in New Jersey. It shwos a tightly-cropped view of a taxidermied dog head, snarling with bared teeth above a docile taxidermined deer. Both are positioned behind a small, multi-spoked metal wheel and a rusted frame that suggests an old infant stroller. The image is haunting.
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Remnants from a 19th century mid-continent prairie life (work, resilience, nature, and memory) #bright #blueskyartshow
A themed table centerpiece set against a red tablecloth. The centerpiece is a narrow, weathered wooden plank holding three items that evoke 19th-century prairie life. On the far left, a small, rustic ceramic pot holds a cluster of dried, yellow and green dried Black-Eyed Susan. In the center, a clear glass rectangular vase holds a sparse, tall arrangement of dried, dark seed heads on thin stems resembling coneflowers or thistle. On the far right is a heavy, dark cast iron sad iron, suggesting the labor on the homestead. Two brightly colored, folk-art-style paintings featuring abstracted dining scenes hang on the white wall behind the table. A deep red tablecloth and dark wood chairs provide a setting for a book club meeting.
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Roy’s magnify glass resembles the bottomless portafilter on my #espresso rig.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Be nice or leave. Kindness is the entry fee for interaction. This asserts the moral right to self-preservation, ethically excluding anyone who refuses the social contract of reciprocal altruism.
A photograph of a dark gray wall, featuring an illuminated red EXIT sign near the top center. Below the exit sign are two framed quotes. The sign on the left is a light brown felt board that says, in white letters, "LIFE HAPPENS COFFEE HELPS." The sign on the right is a framed black-and-white print that says, "BE NICE OR LEAVE -THANK YOU." Above the exit sign is a blue curved frosted window.
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
#blueskyartshow #bright
A vibrant orange restroom stall door, viewed from inside, with a white wall and a white tiled floor below.
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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#FollowFriday
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
More room for sunlight
A low-angle, interior photograph focusing on a chaotic, angular sculpture made of intertwined dried branches and bamboo in the foreground. Strong, fragmented shafts of golden afternoon sunlight cut across the white corner walls, casting geometric patterns. Windows with macrame curtains let in sunlight contributing to the ethereal interior lighting.
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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#FollowFriday
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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#FollowFriday
debwing.bsky.social Deb Wing - print artist @debwing.bsky.social · 7d
‘nocturn - Benmore’. Reduction Linocut in 7 layers. 32x50cm, Caligo Safewash ink on 300gsm Somerset Satin.
#printmaking #linocut #scotland #landscape #royalbotanicalgardens
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Making room for sunlight
A room in warm afternoon light. Fragmented light create bright streaks on a cream-colored wall directly above a nature-themed oil painting leaning on the floor. A fragment of stick sculpture hangs from the upper left corner, and an intricate macrame curtain hangs in front of the window, catching bright sunlight.
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I really like Rainer's photographs. On top of that, 2 is one of my favorite numbers (it's the smallest prime number that's also a Fibonacci number).
kraikrasni.bsky.social Rainer @kraikrasni.bsky.social · 6d
Everyday beauty (Numbers edition)
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Shaded afternoon sunlight #UrbanGaze
Urban view from a window showing the dome of the Cathedral of St. Paul framed by leafless trees. Strong afternoon sunlight casts distinct, diagonal shadows onto the pleated white cellular shade covering the bottom two thirds of the window.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Interwoven light
A low-angle shot of a small plant in a patterned grey pot, suspended in a handmade macrame hanger. The plant is set against a window covered by a woven macrame curtain, with the sun's warm, low-angled afternoon light streaming in from the right, creating long shadows and backlighting the scene. One of the plant's leaves is a striking sunlit red.
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM