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David Patrick
@davidlpatrick.bsky.social
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NYC creative specializing in ceramic tile. Pattern seeker. Color, texture, photography + history.

Member of #EastCoastKin Bluesky arts collective.
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Another one from this rather magical late summer walk in Topanga Canyon. #EastCoastKin #Stunday
Color photo from under the tree canopy out into the light, exploiting some of the random and messy highlights. Sony RX100VA
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Eagle Rock Trail, Topanga Canyon. #EastCoastKin
Color photo taken from the shadows at another beautiful tree across a field of tall grass. Taking photos purely for pleasure, I imagine my preferred monochrome as pencil or charcoal drawings, now looking at color quite literally as paintings, and letting them be sketchy. Sony RX100VA. #Stunday
September 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Late Summer on Eagle Rock Trail, Topanga Canyon. #EastCoastKin #Stunday
Color photo of a large glorious tree taken from the shadows with warm, luminous light coming through the branches and raking across the ground. Thinking about how I want to make color photos and looking at early 19th century painters. Sony RX100VA.
September 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Walking home from work the other day, transfixed by the scaffolding currently shrouding the Flatiron Building, NYC. #EastCoastKin #dparch
Color photo looking up at the Flatiron Building surrounding by architecture from various eras in New York. Taken from 23rd street just west of 5th avenue. Sony RX100VA.
September 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Branches twined around a tree, trimmed a long time ago. Morris-Jumel Mansion grounds, NYC. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo looking up the trunk of a beautiful tree, fixing on the texture leading up to the sky, in a visual dispersion of energy. Sony RX100VA.
September 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Another view of house on West 158th Street, NYC. Late Summer. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo of an apparently uninhabited house in the dappled light with simple but interesting brickwork, leaded panels glass. Love this house, I’ve posted views of it before. Sony RX100VA.
September 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I’m such a sucker for this kind of thing. West Harlem, NYC. #EastCoastKin
#ClassicMono photo of Romanesque relief panel in an apartment building facade, framed by various styles of ironwork.
August 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Offshoot at Audubon Terrace, Washington Heights, NYC. #EastCoastKin
#ClassicMono photo of a potted plant or shrub with an offshoot framed by the classical stonework in the dappled light.
August 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Sprinklers doing their job last evening at the Convent Garden, West Harlem. #EastCoastKin
Color photo of sprinkler list in the neighborhood garden, backlit by late summer evening light.
August 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Escondido Falls trail, Malibu CA. July 2025. #EastCoastKin
#ClassicMono photo of a close-cropped view of thick, low hanging trunk and branches. The trunk underside is charred, probably from recent wildfires. Fresh growth coming from the ground. Sony RX100m3.
August 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Glorious details in West Harlem. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
Monochrome photo of a street view on West 148th street. Details abound in gates and grates, stained glass and fire cones, incised relief Hebrew lettering and a Baptist church sign. I love this city.
August 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Forest Divination II. #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday
#ClassicMono photo of a dewy web amongst the grass and sticks along the Escondido Falls trail. Sony RX 100m3. #BlueSkyArtShow
August 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Escondido Falls trail. RX100M3. #EastCoastkin #ClassicMono
Monochrome photo with highly differentiated areas of vegetation, a glorious pile of nature.
August 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Stunner of a tree on the Escondido Falls trail, Malibu CA. RX100m3. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Stunday #BlueSkyArtShow
Monochrome photo of a sprawling tree with bright hazy backlight, all blending into a tapestry of surrounding foliage and vegetation.
August 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Hollyhock House, Los Angeles. Sony RX100m3. #EastCoastKin #dparch #FrankLloydWright
Lush view of a garden area at Hollyhock House. Boulders and curvy trees in front of a row of windows.
August 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Los Angeles CA street view. Sony RX100m3. #EastCoastKin #dparch
Street view of old (this New Yorker is assuming) LA Stock Exchange. The ornate bronze doors are oxidized evoking former grandeur.
August 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Digital collage with color and #ClassicMono versions of an image #alternating as filtered through a geometric grid. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin
Woodland scene from Central Park NYC tessellated in color and #Monochrome.
July 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Heavenly Forest. Hiddenbrooke Park, Beacon NY. #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyMonday #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo looking up to and through the forest canopy with strong backlighting creating a heavenly effect. Strong grain adds to the feeling of a wet media drawing. Sony RX100m3.
July 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Forest Divination. Fishkill Gorge, Beacon NY. #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #BlueSkyMonday #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo of a mossy forest floor with twigs strewn in a mystical arrangement. Sony RX100m3.
July 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Luminous tree over a high creek. Fishkill Creek, Beacon NY. #EastCoastKin #Stunday #ClassicMono #MessyNaturePhoto
#Monochrome photo of a partially flooded creek, a tree arching over the water catching the light in a certain way. Sony RX100m3.
July 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Shiva as Mrityunjaya, the Conquerer of Death, Bangladesh or India, 12th Cen. The Met, NYC. #EastCoastKin #Stunday #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo of a detail of a carved black stone statue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For me, it represented maintaining focus in a world gone mad.
June 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Cooling off at the Met yesterday. Dancing Ganesha, India 10th cen. #EastCoastKin #Stunday #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo of a carved red sandstone statue of Dancing Ganesha at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
June 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Four geese in the Hudson River. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo of four geese taking shelter under twisted trees at the Hudson riverbank with large rocks.
June 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Morning meditation, NYC. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#Monochrome photo of rock cairns found near Geo. Washington Bridge, looking down the Hudson. Could not avoid contemplation of past and future. Keep cool today, everyone.
June 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Zumba Canyon). Sony RX100m3. #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #BlueSkyArtShow
#Monochrome photo of a rough patch of grass and branches in high contrast against a backdrop of foggy mountains.
June 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM