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Tony Patrickson
@anpatric.bsky.social
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Originally art, nowadays lecturing in moving images. Part cirrus cloud. Functional introvert. West of Ireland. That's enough excitement for now.
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Sunrise and cloud lanes, East Galway, Ireland. Autumn arrives and a lower, smokier, set of shadows begin to appear in the mornings.
#autumn #sunlight #shadow #ireland
An autumn sunrise seen from East Galway, Ireland.
October 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The ghost in the floral scarf. How can something glimpsed through a shop window in Ireland also be a glimpse of a woman 40 years ago at Dolwyddelan castle who told me about the sun dancing?
Image of a floral scarf draped around a shop window dummy.
August 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Just received @ianarchie.bsky.social 's book in the post and what a radiant thing it is. Magica luminaria....
Photo showing a copy of Ian Archie Beck's recent book.
August 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Urban triptych, Kilkenny city centre, July 2025.
Black and white photo of a lone pedestrian waiting to cross the street in Kilkenny city centre.
August 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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They look like they should sound like whispers. Northwestern sky full of cirrus over Ireland: a diagram of the sun's energies.
#cirrus #sunlight #summer
A colour photograph looking up into the north Western sky over Ireland, a blue filled with cirrus tails..
August 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Brother and sister cats sleep in pale hues on a duvet on a stormy afternoon in August.
#cats #August #pale #hues
Image of a brother and sister cat sleeping on a duvet on a stormy afternoon. Image of a brother and sister cat sleeping on a duvet on a stormy afternoon.
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Eric regards the Universe from my knee on an August evening. #cat #gato #chat #gata #qita #kat #mačka
Picture of a cat sitting on its human furniture in the garden on an August evening. Picture of a cat sleeping on its human furniture in the garden on an August evening.
August 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Flora Carnivora of the raised bog. Sundew and Butterworth plants on Carrownagappul bog SAC, Ireland. #sundew #butterwort #bog #ireland #plants #flora
Sundew carnivorous plant on a raised bog in Ireland Butterwort carnivorous plant on a raised bog in Ireland
July 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Marsh-fragrant Orchid on a hot summer's day, the most intense of natural perfumes. Carrownagappul raised bog, Co.Galway. #perfume #orchid
July 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Wild Angelica, Carrownagappul Bog SAC, Ireland. #angelica #raisedbog
Photograph showing Wild Angelica plant growing on a raised bog in the West of Ireland
July 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Aerodrama. The sudden heat of the summer sun pouring down as the clouds part makes the sky feel instantly tactile. Feel...alive..... #sky #synaesthesia
Image shows a human hand held up against the midday sun.
July 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Midday uncanny today. (Hogweed unfurling on the margin of a raised bog). Co. Galway Ireland. #hogweed #plantphotography #raisedbog
Black and white phot showing a Hogweed plant out on the bog in the West of Ireland on a summer's day.
July 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Atlantic skyscape, Co.Clare coast in a stiff southwesterly wind. 25.06.25.
#clouds #skyphotography #winds #coast #nuages #nubes #scamaill #alghuyum #sahil #cósta #costa #côte #atlantique #atlántica
June 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Leaning to the wind. #Chestnut and #hawthorn in a stiff southwesterly, Co Clare, Ireland. 26.06.25.
Image shows Chestnut and Hawthorn trees blowing in a stiff SW wind on the Co.Clare coast in Ireland.
June 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Silence of lights: crescent Moon and Venus through the mists at dusk in the West of #Ireland.
A colour photographing showing the crescent moon and Venus shining in a misty dusk sky above the West of Ireland.
June 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Night sun: Co. Galway, Ireland.
Black and white photograph showing the light of the setting sun behind the clouds in the West of Ireland Black and white photograph showing the last light of the setting sun behind the clouds in the West of Ireland
June 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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One of the most succinct summaries of modernism I can recall reading, here in relation to #wagnerism Alex Ross writes with such grace.
Image shows a quote from Alex Ross' book 'Wagnerism', summarizing modernism in relation to wagnerian themes.
May 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Duckwise by gardenlight: Co. Galway, 9th May 2025.
#ducks #sunlight #birds
Image shows three ducks by the backdoor of a house in Ireland. Image shows three ducks by the backdoor of a house in Ireland in the early evening sunlight.
May 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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'When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,' (John Keats 1848) Moon, Mars, Leo & Cancer. 04.05.25.
#moon #zodiac #nightsky #keats
Colour photograph of moonlight on clouds in West of Ireland, with the moon positioned between the constellations of Leo and Cancer with the planet Mars to the right of the moon. Colour photograph of moonlight on clouds in West of Ireland, with the moon positioned between the constellations of Leo and Cancer with the planet Mars to the right of the moon.
May 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Blackbird and pear blossom. May in Ireland: the garden haunted by birdsong just after the sun has gone down.
#birds #song #blossom #tranquility
Smartphone image taken through binoculars of a blackbird singing amidst the pear blossom.
May 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Feline nirvana.
#cats #sunlight #may #evening #gata #neko #قط #gatta #chat
Colour photograph showing a rather large cat holding onto a person's leg and basking in the evening sun.
May 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Figure in landscapes. May 2nd, 2025.
#landscape #vr #may
May 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Rainbow in the East at sunset, the trees full of song from some starlings. E.Galway, 25.04.25
#rainbow #sunset #arcobaleno #niji #قوسقزح #arcduciel #arco-íris
Image shows a rainbow in the Eastern sky at sunset, framed by trees from which the song of starlings was coming. Image shows a rainbow in the Eastern sky at sunset, framed by trees from which the song of starlings was coming.
April 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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White cat and cherry blossoms. Easter Monday 2025.
#cat #easter #cherryblossom
#gata #chat #قط #猫 #猫 #桜 #sakura
Colour photograph showing a white cat sitting in the sun next to a vase containing cherry blossoms.
April 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Literature can seldom have seen such brutal opening lines as these from Arnold Shircliffe, written in 1930.
#sandwiches #cuisine #brutality
Image shows a quotation from Arnold Shircliffe's 1930 book on sandwich making emphasizing the need for the correct materials. Colour photo showing the cover of Arnold Shircliffe's volume 'The Edgewater Sandwich and Hors d'Oeuvres Book', first published in 1930.
April 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM