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David J. Clarke
@jazzphreak.bsky.social
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Seeking work as a Peer Bridger or 988 Support Agent. Jazz fanatic & amateur photographer. Former philosopher & logician. Disciple of Richard Rorty. Francophile. 💙🏳️‍🌈📸🎷 🇫🇷
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A variant on the selfie
#coffeehouse #spectacles #thomaspynchon #journey #selfdiscovery
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Barista stirring Italian soda

#colorphotography #vivid #saturation #bokeh #variable #motion #hands #composition #lens #distortion #underexposed
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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'Beethoven's Birth Room' — Alfred Eisenstadt

#blackandwhite #shadow #line #light #classical #romantic #bridge #dedication #homage #mementomori #artendures
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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'Carving with a Camera'

#photographer #filmmaker #blackandwhite #monochrome #exposure #light #tonalshift #narrative #underrated #master #abstract #HiroshiSugimoto #line #form #negativespace #composition
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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'Generations and Time', by Shōmei Tōmatsu

#photographer #filmmaker #blackandwhite #monochrome #exposure #light #tonalshift #narrative #underrated #master #streetphotography #ShōmeiTōmatsu
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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'Lightning Fields', by Hiroshi Sugimoto

#photographer #filmmaker #blackandwhite #monochrome #exposure #light #tonalshift #narrative #underrated #master #abstract #HiroshiSugimoto
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Fan Ho, street photography with a nod to Willy Ronis

#photographer #filmmaker #influence #tradition #WilkyRonis #blackandwhite #monochrome #exposure #light #tonalshift #narrative #underrated #master #streetphotography #FanHo
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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'Obsession', (1964) by Fan Ho

#photographer #filmmaker #blackandwhite #monochrome #exposure #light #tonalshift #narrative #underrated #master #streetphotography #FanHo
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Robert Adams: from 'The Place We Live' collection. No words except to note photography is a medium concerned with light. Also, seeing digital versions or even books in no way prepares you for what you encounter in person.
#RobertAdams #Light #Beauty #Essays
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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This is immoral, egregious and outrageous! Sadly, it is legal. Using its attack on DEI, the Trump administration has regressed Civil Rights 60 years. Couple that with gerrymandering & changing election practices and the result is de facto Jim Crow.
#JimCrow #Racism
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Necks don't get much longer than this...

#BirdofTheDay #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #flamingo
Two flamingos leaning in for a chat. Taken at the zoo.
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Blue Court & apartments on a rainy day

#streetphotography #underexposed #cityphotography #eastcoastkin #graduated #light #vignette #blur #hoopdreams #pattern #repetion
#reflection #rain
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Three cheers for this trio!!!
helenmccarthy51.bsky.social Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 22d
Highschool activists working to secure freedom of choice in their school. What amazing young women!
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 22d
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
October 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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My only note to the subject was 'show your true colors.'

#flora #pop #saturation #bokeh #orange #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Can't do any better than than quoting his compatriot in the film 'Round Midnight,':

'you play like a god'

#BeBop #DexterGordon #NightinTunisia #DizzyGillespie
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Dexter Gordon - Night in Tunisia (Holland, 1964) [1/3]
YouTube video by Julio Cortázar
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October 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Life flourishes everywhere! In Namibia's beautiful Sossusvlei region, two lone trees live on the edge of a giant red dune which rises sharply above. In fact, one of the trees is buried in the dune's sand!

#photography #nature #bluesky #naturephotography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Moderate mountain view Monday in Yakima as seen from the 5th floor of the Larson building.

#mountains #blueskies #eastcoastkin #puffyclouds #alliteration #skyline #horizon #landscape #blueskyphotography
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by David J. Clarke
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Plague Days - Basketball - afternoon - Bagong Silang, Caloocan City, Manila, The Philippines
October 20, 2020
#plaguedays #Manila #photography #urban #Philippines #covid19 #boys #streetphotography #street #b&w #blackandwhite #hot #afternoon #humid #alley #basketball
October 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Like illuminated pearls the lamps shown from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm gray evening air an unchanging unceasing murmur.
—'Two Gallants' (Dubliners)
—James Joyce

#shortstory #light #synechdoche
October 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Farewell to a great gato named Omar. 17 years he spent on this earth and he leaves behind a shadow of memories that will endure in all those that knew him.

His only regret in life was that he did not take more naps.
A cat must have a code.
#catphotography #whiskers #TheWire
#gato
October 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Kudos to the bird's barber!
aintright.bsky.social Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 25d
When you accidentally go out with your slippers on. #ukbirds #birds #wildlife #Robins
October 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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#flowers and #insects for #StunDay 🦋🐝🌺🌸🪻🐞🐛

Have a good day and week! 🌞

#FlowersOnSunday
#bloomscrolling
#gardening
#FlowersOnBluesky
#nature
#photography
#nature
#naturephotography
#summer
#photography
#sensoryart
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#blossoms
#pollinators
Fluffy bumble bee on a blue thistle blossom. Ladybird nest yo the centre of a Pink-orange Dahlia. Pink Dahlia blossom with yellow-green bud next to it. Tortoiseshell butterfly sitting on small pink blossoms with wings open.
August 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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'Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet.'
—James Joyce
—'The Dead', 'Dubliners'

ChatGPT note: 'The author is confused by the term 'literally'. Proper usage would be 'figuratively'.

ChatGPT can be an idiot, but this reply makes it a special kind of idiot.

#Irony #Echos
More than nifty graphic design celebrating the centennial edition of Joyce's Dubliners. Double exposure of a local coffee house and of the person that provides their weekly flowers, it seemed especially appropriate here as she is not only named Mary. She is actually from county Cork in Ireland.
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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My favorite ethnically ambiguous actor, I'm looking forward to seeing this half Guatemalan half Cuban thespian in del Toro's Frankenstein!
youtube.com/shorts/QUY6m...
Oscar Isaac is a savage 🤣🤣🤣
YouTube video by Celeb_geek
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October 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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William, street musician, riffing on his six string while visiting the Jimi Hendrix sculpture on Capital Hill.

#streetphotography #musician #guitarplayer #blues #homage #jimihendrix #eastcoastkin #memorial #redhouse #purplehaze #sculpture #publicart
October 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM