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Ronnie Thain
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Just posting my photographs (except reposts). See my #photographics at https://ronaldthain.com and blog at https://idreamedof.wordpress.com #idreamedof
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The green shed #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze
#StreetArt #HumansOfBlueSky
May 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Back to blue skies here again …and brown sheds and spring greens

#BlueSkyMonday
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin #sheds #springgreens
4 boring brown sheds lined up in front of crag covered in a birchwood glowing brilliant green in the spring sunshine. An incongruous patch of astroturf set into a carefully tended green sward in front of crag covered in a birchwood glowing brilliant green in the spring sunshine. Trucks pass by on the highway at the foot of the crag.
May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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In memoriam
Colourful image of a gravestone in a village churchyard Colourful image of a gravestone in a village churchyard Colourful image of a gravestone in a village churchyard
April 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Is it Monday already?
Quayside scenes at Gairloch harbour on the Scottish Highlands famously beautiful west coast. See alt text for description.
#westcoast
#eastcoastkin #blueskymonday
An old tyre protects the black, rusty steel hull of a fishing trawler from the blue-painted trawl door hanging over the side. A blue plastic perforated tray lying against a half-red, half-white plastic fishbox propped up by some old, rusty trawl doors on the quayside.
March 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Here’s one for #BlueSkyMonday
and
#MountainMonday

Blue skies over Cairngorm Mountain and the Lairig Ghru; a layer of altocumulus fractures the rays beaming down on Glenmore from a glaring sun, now high in the sky in early March.

This was yesterday - no blue skies here today :(
Blue skies over Cairngorm; a layer of altocumulus fractures the rays beaming down on Glenmore from a glaring sun, now high in the sky in early March. Pity about that weedy birch tree that blocks the view. I could easily have moved to the side to avoid it but I would have had to get up off my rock…
March 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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From my window one winter morning.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Windows #frommywindow #boatsinwindows #windowshelf
The view from a window, looking across a street to a distant landscape with a vivid, orange sunrise lighting up a winter morning, with snow on the ground. A model ship is displayed on the windowsill, silhouetted against the light and bracketed by seashells.
March 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Dormer window on a derelict wooden summerhouse with a rusty tin-roof, in the Highlands of Scotland.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Windows #rustytinroof #sheds #barns
Dormer window on a derelict wooden summerhouse with a rusty, orange, tin roof with out-of-focus green leaves of a larch tree in the foreground.
March 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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A photograph of a rowan tree growing beside a stream; in a simulation of wet-plate photography.

#stylized #shotoniphone #maquette
A monochromatic image of a rowan tree growing beside a stream in the style of wet-plate photography; shot on iPhone
March 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Sunrise shadow selfie with sailing ship.

#dawn #sunrise #warm #shadowselfie #window #photography #artphotography #alliteration
Sunrise shadow selfie with sailing ship. The dawn rises over the hills, casting a warm light on the wall, and the shadow of a model sailing boat which sits on the windowsill. I step into the frame and angle my iphone to capture a self portrait composition.
February 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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From another point of view,

#lenticular #cloud #power #wingedcreatures #earlyflight #streetscape #topographic #monochromatic #monochromaticphotography
#gloomyweather
February 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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A monochromatic photograph where the frame is divided into quadrants of varying tones and textures.
A monochromatic photograph where the frame is divided into quadrants of varying tones and textures. The elements: a tall aluminium pole feeds fibre optic cables to the street, below a dark and threatening mid-day sky with a fleet of lenticular clouds scudding by in the distance.
February 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I lost count at thirty, but I must admit I have a particularly bad case of pareidolia.
Seeing ‘faces’ in weathered stone near Albany, Western Australia. An effect referred to as pareidolia.
February 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Today’s #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #monochrome
Still life with fork and fish-knife.
Still life with fork and fish-knife; scan of 35mm film negative.
February 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Photomontage of the phases of the Moon and Venus (not-to-scale) taken on 6 February a few hours apart and saved for St. Valentine’s day. #moon #venus #phase #nightsky #stvalentinesday
February 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Morning sunbeams over Cairngorm, Scotland.

#crepuscularrays #cairngormsnationalpark #cairngormfunicular
February 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow. Today’s theme – #reflections
#Ucluelet #BC #Canada #VancouverIsland
A pale blue boat - matching the colour of the sky - heads out to sea from Ucluelet on Vancouver Island’s west coast, on a sunny day. It stands out against the dark green wooded hillside which is silhouetted against the sky, and all is perfectly reflected on the surface of a flat, calm sea.
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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It’s late, but still Sunday – so here’s a photo I took this morning for #stunday
#treetops
#lookup
A black and white photograph of birch trees in winter, taken looking up, directly overhead. The sky has mottled clouds.
February 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The theme of this Saturday’s #BlueSkyArtShow is #light

A streetlight shines through the bare branches of the trees, illuminating a snow-covered street in the early hours before the morning traffic breaks through the drift.

#streetscene #snowinthenight #weesmallhours #frommywindow
A streetlight shines through the bare branches of the trees, illuminating a snow-covered street in the early hours before the morning traffic breaks through the drift in this monochromatic photograph.
February 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The summit of Cairngorm is hidden as a cold misty rain drifts across the face of the northern corries in late January 2025.
A panoramic photo of the Cairngorm plateau, Highlands of Scotland. The summit of Cairngorm is hidden as a cold misty rain drifts across the face of the northern corries.
January 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The last rays of the evening light catch the pine tree tops by the path round Loch an Eilein.
#lochaneilein #rothiemurchus #lastofthelight
Evening light catches the tops of a group of pine trees which appear to be growing out of a rough stone wall at Loch an Eilein. The last shafts of the evening light graze the castle on the island on Loch an Eilein under a vast blue sky with diffuse contrails spreading left to right
January 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Lenticular clouds regularly form to the north of the Cairngorm plateau with southerly winds, and the view from my window at dawn is a great thing to wake up to. These, from a few days ago, became more defined but lost their colour as the sun rose.

#frommywindow #clouds #dawn #sunrise #stormhour
January 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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These unusual clouds, lit by a fiery dawn, formed over the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland on 17th January 2022. This was coincidentally two days after the Tonga volcano eruption sent shock waves round the globe. I like to imagine there was a connection. #StormHour #competition #photography
January 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The Academy on Schoolhill from Aberdeen Art Gallery

#photography #layers #blueskyartshow
January 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Any colour you light
Colourful but neglected-looking lamp posts on a footpath in the snow; the nearest has cracked and peeling blue paint.
January 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Moonshine
The moon shines through hazy clouds in a dark sky
January 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM