Jim Foley
@jimfoley.bsky.social
Psychotherapist, mental health trainer, amateur photographer and digital artist. Interested in patterns, in all of these fields.
Conveying words and images that might bring people some understanding, appreciation, connection, empowerment, or a smile.
Conveying words and images that might bring people some understanding, appreciation, connection, empowerment, or a smile.
Here is what could be called a floral arrangement.
I used the fourth photo to make all of the others.
I used the fourth photo to make all of the others.
July 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Here is what could be called a floral arrangement.
I used the fourth photo to make all of the others.
I used the fourth photo to make all of the others.
I liked the curves of this leaf with two beetles on it, and turned the whole thing into a kind of pinwheel shamrock.
June 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I liked the curves of this leaf with two beetles on it, and turned the whole thing into a kind of pinwheel shamrock.
This is one of several ways I played with a photo of an old-school card catalog; see the first image full size to see the little drawers.
June 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This is one of several ways I played with a photo of an old-school card catalog; see the first image full size to see the little drawers.
Post-storm sunset experienced by a dog and their human.
[I was lucky to capture this moment as they were on a hilltop and I ran back and found a location way behind the hill, far enough way to get both of them in focus along with the clouds despite the low light].
[I was lucky to capture this moment as they were on a hilltop and I ran back and found a location way behind the hill, far enough way to get both of them in focus along with the clouds despite the low light].
May 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Post-storm sunset experienced by a dog and their human.
[I was lucky to capture this moment as they were on a hilltop and I ran back and found a location way behind the hill, far enough way to get both of them in focus along with the clouds despite the low light].
[I was lucky to capture this moment as they were on a hilltop and I ran back and found a location way behind the hill, far enough way to get both of them in focus along with the clouds despite the low light].
Four more patterns/mosaics I made with blades of grass.
May 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Four more patterns/mosaics I made with blades of grass.
Some blades of grass with droplets, which I folded and reflected and rotated into patterns.
Four more in a comment.
Four more in a comment.
May 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Some blades of grass with droplets, which I folded and reflected and rotated into patterns.
Four more in a comment.
Four more in a comment.
The last bit of sunset light, refracted and reflected on the Saint Mary’s River by Neebish Island on the border between Ontario and Michigan.
May 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The last bit of sunset light, refracted and reflected on the Saint Mary’s River by Neebish Island on the border between Ontario and Michigan.
Sunset reaching my eyes through 8-foot-tall rushes/grass while the sound of redwing blackbirds was trilling in my ears,
Oak Hill Park in Wooster Ohio
Oak Hill Park in Wooster Ohio
May 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Sunset reaching my eyes through 8-foot-tall rushes/grass while the sound of redwing blackbirds was trilling in my ears,
Oak Hill Park in Wooster Ohio
Oak Hill Park in Wooster Ohio
Here is a pinwheel bouquet assembled from your mock orange… hope you like it.
May 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Here is a pinwheel bouquet assembled from your mock orange… hope you like it.
A few more variations on a portrait on an unopened flower.
May 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A few more variations on a portrait on an unopened flower.
Someone challenged me to make some digital art out of the first photo, even though it didn’t have any big shapes and a lot of the photo was blurry.
Here’s a sample of how I responded; a few more images in a comment.
Here’s a sample of how I responded; a few more images in a comment.
May 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Someone challenged me to make some digital art out of the first photo, even though it didn’t have any big shapes and a lot of the photo was blurry.
Here’s a sample of how I responded; a few more images in a comment.
Here’s a sample of how I responded; a few more images in a comment.
Love it!
I hope you don’t mind, the beautiful curving fanning shape gave me the idea for a couple of patterns:
I hope you don’t mind, the beautiful curving fanning shape gave me the idea for a couple of patterns:
May 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Love it!
I hope you don’t mind, the beautiful curving fanning shape gave me the idea for a couple of patterns:
I hope you don’t mind, the beautiful curving fanning shape gave me the idea for a couple of patterns:
This one racquetball-sized flower appears like a miniature bouquet of flowers when you use a camera to get more detail than the casual eye willl resolve.
May 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This one racquetball-sized flower appears like a miniature bouquet of flowers when you use a camera to get more detail than the casual eye willl resolve.
This weekend amidst practical and mental tasks and social and athletic activities I took a moment to take a close look at the flower of the well-named “Ornamental” Onion.
May 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This weekend amidst practical and mental tasks and social and athletic activities I took a moment to take a close look at the flower of the well-named “Ornamental” Onion.
Someone suggested that I make some of my “mosaic” art with a photo I took of a rocky beach at sunset.
April 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Someone suggested that I make some of my “mosaic” art with a photo I took of a rocky beach at sunset.
Here I play around with a photo I took of seatback video screens on an airplane.
April 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Here I play around with a photo I took of seatback video screens on an airplane.
In this turbulent time, l turned my attention away from crashing waves and undertow to focus on a little translucent shell amidst pebble-shaped sand… and then Imade patterns.
April 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
In this turbulent time, l turned my attention away from crashing waves and undertow to focus on a little translucent shell amidst pebble-shaped sand… and then Imade patterns.
My wife is in Paris; remembering my last time there with her, I am pulling up this standard photo I took, and doing some non-standard stuff with it.
March 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My wife is in Paris; remembering my last time there with her, I am pulling up this standard photo I took, and doing some non-standard stuff with it.
I selected this among many of my more vivid Northern Lights photos because we can see
the way the aurora collaborated with some street lights
to create some Blue Sky out of the darkness.
#Refraction #Prism #Bluesky #StormBauer #Photo #SciArt #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
the way the aurora collaborated with some street lights
to create some Blue Sky out of the darkness.
#Refraction #Prism #Bluesky #StormBauer #Photo #SciArt #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
March 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I selected this among many of my more vivid Northern Lights photos because we can see
the way the aurora collaborated with some street lights
to create some Blue Sky out of the darkness.
#Refraction #Prism #Bluesky #StormBauer #Photo #SciArt #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
the way the aurora collaborated with some street lights
to create some Blue Sky out of the darkness.
#Refraction #Prism #Bluesky #StormBauer #Photo #SciArt #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
Evening #bluesky
over some silhouetted trees behind my house,
turned into a picture frame.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #Frame #PhotoArt
over some silhouetted trees behind my house,
turned into a picture frame.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #Frame #PhotoArt
March 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Evening #bluesky
over some silhouetted trees behind my house,
turned into a picture frame.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #Frame #PhotoArt
over some silhouetted trees behind my house,
turned into a picture frame.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #Frame #PhotoArt
Sometimes a subtle progression of #Bluesky hues
plays a role in some digital art I make, in this case a pinwheel I made from a photo of a tree branch full of flowers.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #DigitalArt
plays a role in some digital art I make, in this case a pinwheel I made from a photo of a tree branch full of flowers.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #DigitalArt
March 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sometimes a subtle progression of #Bluesky hues
plays a role in some digital art I make, in this case a pinwheel I made from a photo of a tree branch full of flowers.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #DigitalArt
plays a role in some digital art I make, in this case a pinwheel I made from a photo of a tree branch full of flowers.
#StormHour #PhotoHour #DigitalArt
A few variations from the same original photo
March 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A few variations from the same original photo