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Mostly harmless. Humanist. Fabian. Lawyer. Insolvency practitioner. Photographer. Was a citizen of Europe. @Dutch_Newchurch@mastodon.world
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Stonehenge Winter Solstice. Soon after dawn a visitor to the ancient stone circle lays her hands on the Heel Stone.

Thousands visited to be present at the start of the shortest day (Sunday 21 December 2025).

#Stonehenge
#Solstice
#ShareMondays2025
A photograph of a young woman’s hands pressed against a rough, natural rock surface. Her fingers are outstretched, and she has long, pointed, painted and decorated fingernails. They are different colours; pink, green, red, and some have small jewel stones attached. She was one of thousands who visited the ancient stone circle at Stonehenge, to be present at the start of the day. For many, the monument has a spiritual or religious significance, particularly at sunrise and sunset, and even more so at the times of the winter and summer solstices. The stone circle at Stonehenge, about 4-5,000 years old, is aligned to sunrise on the summer solstice, and sunset on the winter solstice.
December 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Ben Frank of Battlesnake; on stage (The Forest) at 2000 Trees festival (10 July 2025).

#Battlesnake
#2000Trees
#ShareMondays2025
#LiveMusic

(Although exposed on 10 July, the image was first completed by processing within the last week before posting here.)
A photograph of a guitarist on stage. He is wearing an ornate priest’s robe (gold and white) while playing a ‘flying V’ guitar. His hand is a blur, and he is scowling over his right shoulder. The stage behind him is obscured in a swirl of stage smoke. He is Ben Frank of the Australian metal band Battlesnake.
December 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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The spectre.

#ShareMondays2025
#FSPrintMonday
#photography
A monochrome photograph. A narrow, dark path, brightly dotted by occasional fallen leaves, winds between rough stone walls. On the left the wall is too high to see over. The right wall is lower. Over it, the path's destination is visible. It ends in a fine stone wall, made of large blocks, with three carved columns decorating it. Between two of the columns is an arched entrance. What may be the shape of a mysterious, shrouded figure is visible in the entrance.
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Ziggy. (He’s had his little operation and is absolutely fine. It the one that many boy kittens have.)

It’s not that easy to photograph him. He likes to stick his head into the lens hood whenever I point my camera at him.

#Cat
#kitten
#ShareMondays2025
#fsprintmonday
A photograph of a kitten; a ginger cat a few months old. He’s sitting on the floor, looking at something slightly to his right. His feet are arranged tidily close together. His fur is ginger and white (with stripes on this head). It looks soft and fluffy. His name is Ziggy..
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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I often go for a walk that takes me near the elements in this. I thought I'd try to make an image from them.

#fsprintmonday
#photography
A dark monochrome image. There is a dark path leading through a tunnel of dark, arched undergrowth. At the end of the tunnel, there is a bright, carved stone wall into which is cut a dark arched doorway. All around is a slight blur, as if of motion, moving leaves and suggesting a strong wind.
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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This was very close to the sequoia trees near Blackwater Arboretum in the New Forest. It was a couple of weeks ago (Saturday morning, 15 Nov 2025). The sun broke through the mist shortly after 10 am, and it was burned away within about 30 minutes.

#NewForest
#photography
#sunbeams
#fsprintmonday
A photograph in mist, with sunbeams. The main subject is a single, slender beech tree. Some of its leaves are still bright green, but many are in autumn tones of brown. The backlighting from the sunshine makes the leaves bright. There are ferns around the base of the tree, also glowing in autumn colours. The edge of the tree’s trunk is green, with moss. Behind the tree, there are the shapes of tall trees, blurred and softened by the cold, damp mist.
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The Devil’s Fingers fungus (Clathrus archeri), also known as octopus stinkhorn, emerging from its pod; 1 November 2025. New Forest, Hampshire (UK).

#FungiFriends
#Devil’sFingers
#ClathrusArcheri
#OctopusStinkhorn
#NewForest
#fsprintmonday
A photograph that shows red tentacles bursting from an egg-like sac. The tentacles have a tar-like substance stuck to them (and making strands across the gap between the tentacles. The base of the sac is mottled and opaque. The upper part - torn open by the tentacles - is translucent and delicate in appearance. The main subject is a Devil’s Fingers fungus (Clathrus archeri), also known as octopus stinkhorn, When the tentacles are fully formed, there will be five of them. The fungus is resting on the earth. The dark shapes of leaves and undergrowth is barely visible behind it.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Alice Austin (vocals) and Melanie Makaiwi (bass) of Black Sabbitch performing at The Brook, Southampton, UK) on Thursday 6 November 2025.

#BlackSabbitch
#TheBrookSouthampton
#BlackSabbath
#ConcertPhotography
#WomenWhoRock
#fsprintmonday
#photography
A photograph that shows two female performers on stage. They are Alice Austin (vocals) and Melanie Makaiwi (bass player), both members of the band Black Sabbitch. Black Sabbitch is an all-female band that performs the music of Black Sabbath. The image captures them performing at The Brook (Southampton, UK) on Thursday 6 November 2025. The nearer figure is Alice Austin. She is leaning back and supporting herself with a microphone stand, suggesting she has just completed a session singing. Behind her Melanie Makaiwi is playing her bass guitar. The stage is dark and smoky, but both musicians have been captured by the lighting.
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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#ShareMondays2025
A dark monochrome image. There is a dark path leading through a tunnel of dark, arched undergrowth. At the end of the tunnel, there is a bright, carved stone wall into which is cut a dark arched doorway. All around is a slight blur, as if of motion, moving leaves and suggesting a strong wind.
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Saturday morning (15 Nov 2025), unexpectedly, was foggy. This was very close to the sequoia trees near Blackwater Arboretum in the New Forest. The sun broke through the mist shortly after 10 am, and it was burned away within about 30 minutes.

#ShareMondays2025
#NewForest
A photograph in mist, with sunbeams. The main subject is a single, slender beech tree. Some of its leaves are still bright green, but many are in autumn tones of brown. The backlighting from the sunshine makes the leaves bright. There are ferns around the base of the tree, also glowing in autumn colours. The edge of the tree’s trunk is green, with moss. Behind the tree, there are the shapes of tall trees, blurred and softened by the cold, damp mist.
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Alice Austin (vocals) and Melanie Makaiwi (bass) of Black Sabbitch performing at The Brook (Southampton, UK) on Thursday 6 November 2025.

#BlackSabbitch
#TheBrookSouthampton
#ShareMondays2025
#BlackSabbath
#ConcertPhotography
#WomenWhoRock
A photograph that shows two female performers on stage. They are Alice Austin (vocals) and Melanie Makaiwi (bass player), both members of the band Black Sabbitch. Black Sabbitch is an all-female band that performs the music of Black Sabbath. The image captures them performing at The Brook (Southampton, UK) on Thursday 6 November 2025. The nearer figure is Alice Austin. She is leaning back and supporting herself with a microphone stand, suggesting she has just completed a session singing. Behind her Melanie Makaiwi is playing her bass guitar. The stage is dark and smoky, but both musicians have been captured by the lighting. Technical note for photographers: 1/60s 34mm (≈ 70mm in old money) ISO 10,000 There really was not much light. Olympus OM-1 (m43) Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Raw processed in Lightroom. Burning and dodging by layering in Photoshop. Textured in Photoshop. f/2.8
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The Devil’s Fingers fungus (Clathrus archeri), also known as octopus stinkhorn, emerging from its pod; 1 November 2025. New Forest, Hampshire (UK).

#FungiFriends
#DevilsFingers
#ClathrusArcheri
#OctopusStinkhorn
#ShareMondays2025
A photograph that shows red tentacles bursting from an egg-like sac. The tentacles have a tar-like substance stuck to them (and making strands across the gap between the tentacles. The base of the sac is mottled and opaque. The upper part - torn open by the tentacles - is translucent and delicate in appearance. The main subject is a Devil’s Fingers fungus (Clathrus archeri), also known as octopus stinkhorn, When the tentacles are fully formed, there will be five of them. The fungus is resting on the earth. The dark shapes of leaves and undergrowth is barely visible behind it.
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Karen Dió on the main stage at 2000 Trees festival; 10 July 2025.

#KarenDió
#2000Trees
#ConcertPhotography
#ShareMondays2025
A female singer performing. She holds a microphone near her mouth, and is looking directly into, and pointing at, the photographer's lens. She has short dark hair and is wearing a black t-shirt, with a white trim to the collar and sleeves, and a white logo on the front. She has tattoos on her right arm, and a green festival wristband on her left. Behind her the stage is dark, with beams of light slanting through the stage smoke. She is Karen Dió, a Brazilian punk rock artist, performing on the main stage at 2000 Trees Festival, on 10 July 2025.
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Debbie Gough of Heriot on the Cave stage at 2000 Trees Festival on Friday 11 July 2025.

#Heriot
#2000Trees
#ShareMondays2025
#ConcertPhotography

(This image was not captured in the last week, but I processed it for the first time in the last seven days.)
A photograph made during the performance of the metalcore band Heriot as they played on the Cave stage at 2000 Trees Festival on Friday 11 July 2025. Only one figure is visible in the image, that of the band’s lead singer Debbie Gough. She is wielding a guitar. The stage is shrouded in smoke, and backlit with orange and red lights. This is a fitting reference to the name of Heriot’s album, Devoured by the Mouth of Hell. The backlighting and smoke obscures the figure of Debbie Gough, so she appears as an indistinct, shadowy presence.
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Alice Johnson of swim school headlining Night Currents Festival on Saturday 4 October 2025.

Venue; the Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth (UK).

(Yes, it's swim school, not Swim School.)

#SwimSchool
#NightCurrents
#WedgewoodRooms
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#ConcertPhotography
A photograph made during the performance of the band ‘swim school’ headlining the Night Currents Festival on Saturday 4 October 2025. The photograph shows the band’s lead singer, Alice Johnson, in a close, head-and-shoulders view. She is behind the microphone, pausing briefly to use both hands to push her long, blonde hair back, to show her face, lit by the spotlight on her, Although her red Fender Mustang guitar is not visible, its strap is. Behind her, the rest of the band, and the stage, have disappeared in a swirl of stage fog, illuminated by the stage lighting. Portsmouth’s iconic independent music venue, the Wedgewood Rooms, hosted Night Currents Festival.
October 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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This is Ziggy.
He's not yet 10 weeks old.
Despite appearances, there are few occasions when he is both awake, and not in motion.

#ShareMondays2025
A close up portrait of a ginger kitten. He has big eyes and ears, and white whiskers.
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Devra Hoff (bass player for Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory) on the main stage at End of the Road festival, 28 August 2025.

#SharonVanEttin
#EotR
#ConcertPhotography
#ShareMondays2025
A black and white photograph of a bass guitarist on stage at a festival. She is shrouded in stage smoke, and visible only as a silhouette, in front of two cones of light formed by floodlights shining across the stage. She is Devra Hoff (performing with Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory), closing the Woods stage (the main stage) on the first evening of the End of the Road festival, on 28 August 2025.
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Today is Battle of Britain Day (15 September). This Hawker Hurricane is a machine that kills fascists. It flew 49 sorties during the battle and downed 5 enemy aircraft.

Old Warden Summer Air Show; 26 July 2025.

#Shuttleworth
#BattleOfBritain
#AVGeeks
#HawkerHurricane
#ShareMondays2025
A photograph of a single-engined fighter aircraft from the early 1940s. It is a Hawker Hurricane Mk1 (R4118, with squadron markings UPW). This actual aircraft was delivered new to 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron at Drem on 17 August 1940. During the Battle of Britain it flew 49 sorties from Croydon and shot down five enemy aircraft. In the photograph it is rising above trees, having just taken off. Its undercarriage is not yet fully retracted. It is in green and brown camouflage colours. National identification roundels are visible on the side of the fuselage and under the wing. National identification stripes are visible on the tail fin. The cockpit hood is open, and the head of the pilot is visible behind the windscreen. The propellor is blurred from the motion of it spinning, and there is a dark sky overhead.
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw in the Big Top on 29 August 2025 at the End of the Road Festival.

#Man/Woman/Chainsaw
#EndOfTheRoad
#ConcertPhotography
#ShareMondays2025
Two guitarists, one female, one male, performing on stage. She is playing a bass guitar and singing. Both are in dark clothes, and illuminated by a bright light behind them, and between them, throwing beams of light out into the darkness. They are both members of the band Man/Woman/Chainsaw, playing at the End of the Road festival on Friday 29 August 2025.
September 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Daniel Young, guitarist of October Drift on stage at a festival (22 August 2025).

(I'm not going to name the festival as it silenced another band scheduled to play earlier that day.)

#OctoberDrift
#ConcertPhotography
#ShareMondays2025
A guitarist on stage at a festival. He is playing a black Fender Jaguar. He is caught in light, but wearing black, and the stage and set behind him are invisible in smokey darkness. He is Daniel Young from the band October Drift, who recently announced that, sadly, they are playing their final gigs.
August 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Avro 504k from the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden's Summer Air Show.

#Shuttleworth
#OldWarden
#WorldPhotographyDay
A photograph of a small, fragile-looking biplane flying through a dramatic sky, with dark clouds and the orange glow of sunset. The aircraft is an Avro 504k training aircraft. This particular one was built in 1918. It is owned by the Shuttleworth Collection, an aviation museum based at Old Warden, Bedfordshire, UK. It was flying at the Old Warden summer airshow, on 26 July 2025.
August 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Jess Allanic of Calva Louise; on stage (The Cave) at 2000 Trees festival (12 July 2025).

#CalvaLouise
#2000Trees
#ShareMondays2025
#ConcertPhotography
A photograph of a guitarist on stage. She is standing, playing her electric guitar, with stage lighting and smoke behind her. She is Jess Allanic of the band Calva Louise, performing in The Cave at 2000 Trees festival on 12 July 2025. The band’s drummer, Ben Parker, is also visible. She wears a long, white dress, with lacy sleeves. She has long, dark hair and dramatic eye shadow.
August 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Nikki Brumen, Blood Command's vocalist, on stage at 2000 Trees.

#BloodCommand
#2000Trees
#ConcertPhotography
A singer, on stage at 2000 Trees festival. She is holding a microphone in her right hand and yelling joyously at her audience. She is wearing a red dress, covered in shiny sequins. The band's guitarist stands behind her. She is Nikki Brumen, Blood Command's vocalist.
August 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Nikki Brumen, Blood Command's vocalist, crowdsurfing and singing in front of the Forest Stage at 2000 Trees.

#BloodCommand
#2000Trees
#ShareMondays2025
#ConcertPhotography
A female singer is lying on her front, singing into a microphone. She is held aloft by the hands of her audience. She has crowd-surfed off the stage. She is seen side-on. Behind her there are trees and foliage, showing that she is performing out of doors, in a forest. She is Nikki Brumen, lead vocalist of Norwegian punk band Blood Command. They were performing at 2000 Trees festival.
August 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Battlesnake's Ben Frank joins the crowd towards the end of their set at 2000 Trees. He is sitting on the shoulders of their bass guitarist, Elliott Hitchcock.

#Battlesnake
#2000Trees
#ConcertPhotography
#ShareMondays2025
A photograph of a guitarist, playing a Flying V guitar. He is wearing priestly robes (in white and gold). He has curly black hair and a black moustache. He is sitting on another man's shoulders. He is surrounded by members of his audience, some of whom are making the sign of the horned beast. Behind them there are trees; it is a woodland setting. The guitarist is Ben Frank, from the Australian metal band Battlesnake. He is sitting on the shoulders of the band's bass guitarist, Elliott Hitchcock. They left the stage towards the end of the band's set at 2000 Trees festival, to join their fans in the mosh pit.
August 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM