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Benjamin Simpson
@hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social
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I don’t know.

What was the question again?

Also, I built a time machine out of rubber bands and hope.
Some of the photos are taken from my rental spaceship as I travel the exoplanets. The journeys help keep me vaguely sane.

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Brr

#frost #winter #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
It’s winter and the morning is frosty. This is a close view of what was once a flower with petals. All the petals have fallen off and it is the stem with the fifty or so brown stamen in the middle and the five triangular leaves that once surrounded the petals. There is a layering of light frost on the top of this dying flower. Soft and quiet and beautiful.
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Quietly subtle.

#mushroom #fungi #nature #photography #forest #fallentree
A photo of a mushroom. A tiny mushroom. Thin brown stalk with a brown cap perfectly round and umbrella. The mushroom is growing out of a fallen tree. The wet dark brown gnarled wood is littered with green moss and the tree expertly describes how tiny the mushroom is.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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A sparkling diamond necklace magically appears overnight on a normally quiet leaf.

#leaf #frost #brick #nature #photography #winter
A photo of a leaf with red brickwork and leaves behind. It is a green ivy leaf. Strong green leaf shaped slightly like a fleur-de-lis. There was a frost overnight so just the outside edges are frosty, like a flourish around the leaf.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Now is the winter of our…

#rosehip #frost #winter #nature #photography #ice
Photograph on a frosty morning. A rose hip, like a red rugby ball, on a green stem with a black circular end. It is lightly frosted in white.
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I’ll just be quietly daydreaming under my umbrella.

#mushroom #fungi #quiet #hidingfromtheworld #nature #photography
A photo of a mushroom surrounded by moss. It is a wall of green moss, with a mushroom growing out of the side. It has a medium thick stem, brown at the bottom fading to yellow white. The cap is shaped like a rounded top umbrella. Brown at the top fading to white. The ribs under the cap are visible and symmetrical and white. I want to disappear and live here for a while.
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Drip

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#forest #water #drip #nature #photography
In a forest there is a winter branch without leaves. There is a drop of water on the end just about to fall. There is a hard light coming from the right so the edge of the water is visible and just one edge of the red branch is visible. There is a thin and tenuous single spider silk slightly glowing.
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Happily without shoulder space.

#mushrooms #fungi #nature #photography #forest
A photo of a whole bunch of mushrooms. The view is from the side, so it’s a walk of stems and caps and the ribbing underneath the caps. Like a family with everyone stuffed into one room. The stems are orange and the caps are brown. Maybe one of them wants to live alone and free from the suffocating family?
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Yesterday I found the fossilised head of a dragon.

#dragon #moss #forest #fossil #nature #photography
In a dark wet forest a tree fell. A large branch slowly rotted away and half collapsed. The piece that is left is covered in moss and the jagged pieces look like an eye and a jaw. It could be a fossil of a dragon. It could be.
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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View from an imaginary slug preparing for dinner.

#fungi #mushrooms #nature #photography #forest
Photo view from the forest up at a forest of tiny mushrooms. There is some wet green moss and then ten or so mushrooms growing out and twisting up toward the sun. They a look like white button mushrooms. With short thick stalks and brown and white caps ranging in size from small to large coins.
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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No words today.

#flower #nature #photography
Photo of a flower with a black background. It is a purple flower. The petals are just opening. The petals are shaped like a vase with a tiny opening, but two of the petals on one side are just opening. There are green leaves around the bottom of the flower. It’s just waking up, the flower, that is.
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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No words today.

#mushrooms #fungi #nature #photography #forest
Photo of mushrooms. Two mushrooms on the forest floor from the point of view of an imaginary ant in the earth of the forest floor. The mushrooms have mostly white, with a little brown, stems. Under the cap is white and there is some sort of sheath surrounding the underside of the cap. The top of the cap is brown.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Slightly different today:
me at work, photographing 200-year-old documents.
with,
um,
helper.

#cat #blackcat #photography #feline
Photo looking down at a white sheet on a brown carpet. The legs of a camera tripod are just visible. As well as the feet of a light stand. My feet in black socks are also just visible. Laying, licking herself, is a black, nonchalantly helping me with the shoot.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Blooming again soon.

#flower #autumn #nature #photography #bloomscrolling
A photo of a flower. Green stalk with green fringe. The center is brown and filled with stuff like a wheat field. The petals are yellow. This flower is dying. Half the petals have fallen off and the ones that are left are dropping sadly, withered and starting to brown. Everything dies, but it will come back.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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No words today.

#stream #nature #photography #autumn #calm
A photo of a river in a forest. There are green leaves on a tree in the foreground. There is a stone in the river covered in moss and that is covered with fallen brown leaves. The water is smoothed and softened by long exposure. Peaceful calm.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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busy busy busy
quiet little moment

#moss #stream #nature #photography #forest #peaceful #dartmoor
A photo of a stream in a forest. A small stream, almost able to jump across. But all the stones are covered in green moss and slippery fallen brown leaves. A fallen tree sits across the water covered in moss. Long exposure so the water is smoothed. Calm and relaxing.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Let them eat cake!

(Don’t think too much about any of that [!angry!angry!angry!!] look at pretty forest lichen instead)

#lichen #photography #nature #forest #moss #tree
A photo of a small tree branch. The branch is brown with specks of green moss. There is lichen on top that look like miniature leaves of lettuce. Hanging from the bottom is white lichen that looks like a tiny skeletal bush. White and dry and dead but still there.
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Stop and smell the flo….
What are those little things in the middle?
Why are they there?
How many millions of years to transform, evolve?
Too many questions.
Or not enough questions.

#flower #nature #photography #macro
Detail photo of a flower. Just the round center bit with the bright yellow orange petals around the side cut off by the edge of the photo. The center is filled by 40? 50? Tiny tiny little bid like things. It looks like really really coarse sandpaper. So wonderfully complex.
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Flowers are so wonderfully weird and stupidly complex and simply beautiful and just a flower and an alien life and to tiny to notice and so big they dominate our sight.

#flower #nature #photography #macro #peaceful
A photo of a flower against a black background. It’s amazingly complex. The are eight thin green leaves at the back. There are eight purple petals surrounding the center like a cupped hand. In the center are many many many little stalks sticking right to the edge of the petals. Almost looks like it is looking at the sun. Which is what it is doing.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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So smooth and simple.
But so craggy and complex.

#nature #photography #flower #field #macro
How to describe this? It’s a photo of something that looks like a long thick stem of wheat. Single long stem with green shoots and purple edges. The end is bumpy but smooth like a torpedo. I’ve got to get better at this.
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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No words today.

#photography #nature #flower #macro #petal #stamen
A purple flower. But not the traditional flower, more like an elongated clam shell. One top and one bottom petal. Out of the top shell hangs the stamen, w willowy thin line forking at the end. Almost alien.
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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…with a bow in her hair.

or

My emotional support arachnid travels everywhere with me.

#spider #arachnid #statue #cemetery #grave #photography #31daysofhalloween
A statue in a cemetery. A white marble statue of a young girl with curly hair a bow at her neck and her hands held in prayer. She is looking down in sorrow. There is a tiny spider with extraordinary long legs on top of her hair where a bow would be. The spider on the statue on her head. Tiny body with extra extra long legs. Detail view of just the body of the spider. Brown and gray. Two antennae or claws. It looks like the spider is looking at you with huge eyes. Alien and creepy and beautiful.
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Quietly purple.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest #moss #quiet
A mushroom. A tiny mushroom. On the side of a tree there is a solid wall of green moss. The tiny mushroom is growing out of this. The mushroom is tall and slender with a perfectly formed cap. It is a soft subtle purple with soft hairs around the base.
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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No words today.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest #macro
Three mushrooms from the point of view of a beetle on the forest floor. Three mottled gray stems and three light brown umbrella like tops with white ribs underneath.
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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No words today.

#cemetery #graveyard #sorrow #statue #photography #goth
A statue in a cemetery. The face of maybe an angel. She is looking down in sorrow with her hand on the side of her face. The stone is lightly mottled with green and yellow lichen.
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Quietly softly gently.

#statue #cemetery #angel #goth #31daysofhalloween #photography
A statue in a cemetery. A statue of a cherub angel. The gray stone face is looking down. There is one stone wing visible. The photo is dark and moody. There is flecks of green and white lichen on the stone.
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM