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@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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📱 | Afton, Minnesota (2023)
Still life with pottery #photography
A dark still life photograph. In the center is a small, cylindrical ceramic vase with a metallic brown and copper glaze, holding a bouquet of dried, light-colored flowers. The vase is placed on a surface of dark, textured bamboo slats, with the curved rims of other ceramic bowls stacked to the right, and more pottery plates and forms stacked in the background.
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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📱 | Minnesota History Center, St. Paul (2025)
Roadside Relic #neon #photography
A tightly cropped photo of a neon sign with a reddish background. The sign reads "ST. PAUL TOURIST CABINS" in block letters. "TOURIST" glows in red-orange neon, contrasting with "ST. PAUL" and "CABINS," which glow in white.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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📱 | Northern Minnesota (2024)
#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth
A glowing fireplace insert set into a rustic stone wall, surrounded by candles and keepsakes on the mantle and hearth.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Espresso #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
A close-up of a white restaurant-grade porcelain cup containing a quad shot of espresso with visible crema, sitting on a reflective, matching saucer with the stem of a stainless steel spoon on the right.
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Opalescent #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
A wall installation of thin, dried branches forming an angular, almost geometric tangle. A luminous, narrow beam of opalescent light streams in from the right, creating a warm, shimmering pattern of texture and shadow across the wall. A small, framed sketch of a thistle hangs on the far wall.
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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You’ve just died.
6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.

I toggled the All-Inclusive Dirt Nap by the 6th floor elevators of the First National Bank Building in St. Paul—on my way to the dreaded Social Security Administration waiting room. But, no wait!! Apparently I had the last laugh.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Plowable #cityscape
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Still searching for a reason to exercise beyond the typical arcane mathematical reason...
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Evocative #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
A close-up photograph of a small potted plant showing two striking reddish-pink leaves, hanging in a macrame planter holder. The plant and holder are silhouetted and bathed in warm afternoon light streaming through a window from the right. A large, intricate macrame curtain/wall-hanging forms the background, creating a woven texture that contrasts with the bright, slightly blue light coming from outside the window, visible through the curtain's gaps. The golden light evokes a mood of warmth and textured tranquility.
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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📱 | Northern Minnesota (2024)
Ethereal #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
A view of soft, light blue morning fog obscuring an island in the middle of above a mirror-like lake, framed on the top and bottom by the dark, spiky silhouettes of red pine needles.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2020)
Author #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
Close-up photograph of the title page of the memoir Waiting for the Revolution: A Montana Memoir by Jo Anne Salisbury Troxel. The author's name is printed below the title, and the page is signed in blue ink by the author.
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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📱 | Birch Lake, City of White Bear Lake, Minnesota (2023)
Orphic #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
A motion-blurred, nighttime photograph taken from a moving car, showing a dark, turbulent sky and a reflection on the smooth surface of a city lake. A brightly lit water tower and other industrial lights are visible in the distance, casting reflections.
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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📱 | Grand Marais, Minnesota (2017)
Rock pool #meditation
A high-angle close-up of a small, shallow rock pool. The water's surface is disturbed, creating warped, shimmering reflections of sunlight that illuminate the dark stones and decaying leaves beneath. The reflections are warm, golden-orange, and contrast sharply with the dark blue-black water and rocks, giving it a painterly, meditative quality.
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
November Sunlight
A close-up, side-lit photograph of a Monstera deliciosa houseplant in a large, glossy, dark green and brown ceramic pot. Late afternoon sunlight from the left casts a dramatic glow, highlighting the pot's reflective surface and the iconic, split leaves of the plant hanging down on the right. The background is a soft neutral wall.
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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📱 | Mountain Manor Resort, Marshalls Creek, PA (2016)
#WeekUforUnloved #AlphabetChallenge
An abandoned indoor swimming pool filled with murky water and debris, including wood, plastic noodles, and trash. A light-colored wooden bench sits on the brick and dirt-covered edge of the pool in the foreground. Reflections of windows and bare tree branches are visible on the still water's surface.
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
November Light
A photography of almost bare, tangled tree branches in bright morning light, with scattered golden and red leaves still clinging. Behind the branches is the dark roof and upper windows of a house, and a wrought-iron lantern.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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📱 | Duluth, Minnesota (2017)

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. – Minor White
A shallow-focus photo looking through a rusty, curved metal frame in the foreground, with fine spider silk stretched across the opening. Beyond the frame, the calm, gray expanse of Lake Superior meets a horizon lit by soft pink and blue twilight. Rocky shore and blurred railings are visible to the left.
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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📱 | Duluth, Minnesota (2018)
Modern Grotto
Three rectangular windows or openings in a thick, white, slightly curved concrete structure, looking out onto the blue-gray expanse of Lake Superior and the horizon under an overcast sky. A bench painted with thick yellow and red diagonal stripes, and a concrete base, runs along the bottom of the openings.
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2025)
Painted Window Brook Trout
Two stylized fish are painted directly onto the four panes of an old, blue-framed window. The window has a wooden grid dividing the panes. The fish have dark green backs speckled with yellow dots, fading into a prominent red and yellow stripe along the lower body. The background visible through the glass is black-and-white wallpaper of birch trees.
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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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Done!
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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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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