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HorseChandelier
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Resident in The Valleys of South Wales... Fugitive from Engerland these last 9 years. Father of 4, two grown, two not so much!
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#getoutside
A field on the top of a cliff in South Dorset 22nd June 2025. Playing with the wide angle setting on the phone - hence the slight fish-eye. Getting the hang of this...
A green hilltop in South Dorset, 4 kite fliers with 2 kites in the air. A sunny summer day with a good mixture of clouds
June 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Three cliffs Bay,
The Gower, South Wales, UK. 23rd June 2025
A sandy beach, cliffs to the left, sea to the right. The view point is at the point at which the incoming waves sink into the sand on a rising tide. Breaking waves are seen in the far right of the pucture. The sky is blue with scattered clouds.
June 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A while ago I went for a stroll in Hastings. When I say I, I mean Nathandriel The Giant. I am usually portering him but took time out to take pictures.
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A giant walks down Hastings Old Town High street. He has a gladius in his right hand and a black shield decorated with a sun figure in his left.
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I was by something wet yesterday... Took loads of snaps and a couple were good - I still get 10% "good" out of camera shots. This has its faults but I like it.
Dunraven Bay, south Wales, UK.
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#landscape
#seascape
Looking east in Dunraven Bay. There are flat, wave wetted, rocks leading off through the surf towards a dark cliff that slopes down to the sea. The sun is high, out of left of frame, giving strong shadow accounting for the dark cliff.
April 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Usnea filipendula, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
Phone camera, it's a new one and I am reasonably happy with this experiment.
Specimen picture of Usnea filipendula, a grey-green lichen with many branching fronds. This one is growing on a larch (or similar tree).
April 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Port Talbot from The Mumbles, a year or two ago.
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#mobile
Sea scape of Swansea Bay. Rocky foreground, mumbles lighthouse centre left and the plume from Port Talbot steelwork in the distance. Grey, calm, sea and and flat grey clouds.
February 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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This never gets old...
A picture of John Cleese in Monty Python's Life of Brian bemoaning the benefits of the Romans...
February 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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#pattern
#abstract
Another snap from Eindhoven...
A mesh of lit cyan triangles in front of a magenta tracery. Formed by taking a picture down the inside of an illuminated, mirrored triangular prism pointed at an illuminated, transparent, dodecahedron.
January 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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What the world needs is more 3 legged sheep...
#sheep
#photography
#wales
The sun is on the skyline, back lighting a sheep on the road. It is late afternoon, but not sunset, just after rain. The sheep is positioned so that it appears to only have 3 legs.
January 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Phone camera pic from 4th floor of the Piazza in Eindhoven

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#Eindhoven
Green ceramic tiles with strong vertical concrete inclusions. Very abstract section of a shopping centre wall in Eindhoven
January 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The Rodder-Maar. December 2024.
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#lake
#Eiffel
A landscape from the eastern Eiffel region in Germany. Looking out over the Rodder-Maar towards an ancient volcano cone. The otherwise clear blue sky has contrails radiating from the right hand side of the horizon. The foreground is cut reed beds and ice covered lake.
December 31, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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National Museum, Edinburgh. Summer 2024.
Yeh, I messed with saturation and black point. It's a phone camera.

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A picture from the highest gallery, looking down into the atrium of the national museum in Edinburgh towards the lighthouse lens on the ground floor. The is a slight vignette effect so the near parts of the photo are generally darker. If you look closely various gallery exhibits can be seen.
December 31, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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A rockpool in Scotland - South shore of the Firth of Forth. Summer 2024.
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A rock pool in front of a very blue sea, with distant view of sandy beaches. It was a sunny, if breezy, day, the sea weeds look particularly green. If I didn't say it was Scotland you might have guessed somewhere subtropical from the colours.
December 30, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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The Kelpies (or Gallopies according to my younger son) at Falkirk. Summer 2024
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The afternoon sun shines through the Kelpie statues at Falkirk. Two giant horse heads rear into the sky.
December 30, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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The tall ship Glen Lee on the Clyde. Summer 2024.
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The bow-sprit of The Glen Lee looking inland / upstream on the river Clyde. Taught chains and cables reach the bow-sprit from the top, right and bottom of the photo. The bow-sprit reaches towards the centre top of the photo from the right hand bottom edge of the picture.
December 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Back street in Köln #photography
A narrow back street in Köln, leading away from the Rhine. White walls, Granite sets, a blue victorian era street lamp on a wall bracket. The vanishing point is surrounded by a yellow topped Wheelie bin, a gas light style standard streetlight and a flight of steps leading g to infinity.
December 29, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Christmas day - the sister-in-law is hostess so I find a new best way to spend Christmas day down time; local wine, probably unavailable anywhere else, and great fiction by @harkaway.bsky.social
An opened bottle of Ahrweiler Portugieser red wine, a glass of the same and a copy of Titanium Noir by @harkaway.bsky.social arranged to illustrate the new best way to spend time on Christmas Day.
December 25, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Yup. Done many strange things with weird people...
A procession of fantastic and real creatures carrying lanterns on sticks, at dusk, in a light snowfall, walking past a megalith with the caption "sometimes happiness means doing things with weird people"
December 21, 2024 at 8:34 PM