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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈
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Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, crocheter of doilies, and partisan of the Oxford comma. My photos here:
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This looks so familiar! Turns out, I was there exactly a month ago. I decided to bring the bull home.
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I am waiting to hear an announcement from the White House that Trump is cooperating fully with DOJ prosecutors on the Epstein case in exchange for immunity.
A low-angle view of the White House, in bright sunlight.
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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#Evening just closing in on the streets of downtown #Toronto [CA]. Sunlight was obscured by the valley of buildings, but warmly lighting the #BellTower of the #OldCityHall at the end of the valley. I was standing in a busy intersection of traffic, but it was worth it! 20221027

#BlueSkyArtShow
A valley of tall city buildings are in shadow, but an older bell tower is visible at the end, lit with golden light from the setting sun. Streams of shadowy pedestrians croos the intersection in the foreground.
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#Evening --now night has set in--in Rome: a flower merchant's stand somewhere not far from the Spanish Steps. 20171024

#BlueSkyArtShow #Rome #Flowers
In the center is a bountiful flower stand under a large umbrella, brilliantly lit against the encroaching dark. A few shadowy pedestrians pass by in front. The cobblestone pavement looks damp.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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#Evening on the National Mall, Washington, DC [USA], where a large stage was being set up for an event. We were walking to our parked car after a visit to the National Gallery, so: near the Capitol [East] end of the Mall, looking West. 20141109

#BlueSkyArtShow
The sky is a gradient of blue down to pale red from the sun that's recently set. Below are bright lights and a metal-trussed arch for a stage being set up. At left is the turret of the Smithsonian Castle; beyond the stage is the Washington Monument.
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This is probably the oldest #Evening photo I ever took. It was during the winter of my first year in college (Cornell College, Mt Vernon, IA), probably January 1975. It could get really, really cold there on the Hilltop!

#BlueSkyArtShow #CornellCollege #Winter
A winter landscape, icy snow in foreground, several bare trees behind, lit in shades of pastel pink and purble by the last light of the visible, setting sun.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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For #FoodOnFriday, my photo of this "Sushi Triptych", by Washington DC [USA] area artist Lily DiBenigno (16 years old at the time), at "Artomatic 2017" (Crystal City, VA). 15 April 2017

#SushiTriptych #Art #Sushi #Painting #Artomatic
This is a photograph of a set of three small, square acrylic paintings, each depicting an example of sushi, displayed on a white wall, with title and artist information printed below.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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During our week in Dublin we heard many stories of oppressive history, and a great deal of contemporary, fierce pride in culture and independence--and Guinness and Fish & Chips, of course!
Here's the informative kiosk near The Spire (which was a very useful landmark when we walked back from Trinity)
An informative street kiosk about the square nearby, it's former statue of Nelson, and it's replacement by The Spire. An informative street kiosk about the square nearby, it's former statue of Nelson, and it's replacement by The Spire.
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Here in Dublin, two blocks from our hotel, is the art-work/memorial known as "The Spire", 400-feet high (the tip has a light), erected as a millennium project (replacing the previous monument to Lord Nelson), here shown in two parts because it IS very #Vertical.

#BlueskyArtShow
In the background is a large, official building in a Greek revival style with columns and pediment. In the fire ground is the lower half of the sculpture called "The Spire", a tall, needle-shaped object. The upper view of the sculpture called "The Spire", a very pointy, needle-shaped object, here against a background of light-blue sky with thin clouds. At right is a utility pole with a security/surveillance camera at its top.
October 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Did I mention that the lobby of our hotel in Dublin has an art installation in the ceiling? This is it. 18 Oct 2025
The old man with silver hair and red glasses, wearing a purple-checked shirt and red suspenders, is seen surrounded by an installation of variously colored blown-glass blossoms.
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Today we're on the coach tour (that lost our reservation yesterday).
Our first stop: Kilkenny. This is its castle.
17 Oct 2025
A young man in blue jacket and cap, another older with silver beard, and a similarly old one with silver beard and beautiful red glasses, stand in front of part of a castle built of grey stone, with many windows and crennelations.
October 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Today, I sat for a spell in the "Grand Gallery" of the National Gallery of Ireland (Gailearaí Náisiúntana héireann), Dublin, Ireland. 15 Oct 2025
A light-skinned man with white hair (rather little of it) and white beard, wearing red glasses and a hint of red suspenders, sits in front of a green art-gallery wall displaying 3 gold-framed paintings.
October 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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We're visiting Dublin this week. For no evident reason our hotel has this horse-lamp in the lobby.

It may just be a fun sculpture here for the selfies/photo-ops, so here you go.
This black, roughly full-size sculpture of a stallion has a black lampshade over its head.
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Final example (3/3) of still water = #Relax. This is a dock in Chestertown, Maryland [USA], on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

10 November 2012

#BlueskyArtShow #Photo
A small boat with two empty masts is moored at a dock; the boat and cloud above, and the pier at left are all beautifully reflected in the very still water of this inlet of the Chesapeake Bay.
October 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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More in the still water = #Relax for me (example 2/3): this pond is the source for the C&O Canal, in Cumberland, Maryland [USA], in the western mountains of the state.

#BlueskyArtShow #photo
A very still pond in the foreground reflects a small brick building on a very green, grassy rise, with a small, trussed foot-bridge at left.
October 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I guess there's something about smooth-water reflections that says #Relax to me (example 1/3). This is Loy's Station Bridge, in Thurmont, Maryland [USA] (one of 5 covered bridges in Frederick County, MD). 16 July 2017

#BlueskyArtShow
In a wooded area, this is a covered bridge, painted red, reflected in a lightly rippled stream.
October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Here's a double portrait of Isaac (L) & our friend Chris (R) in a "Group of Seven" gallery at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. 29 Oct 2022

#Portrait #AGO #Photo
In an art gallery, white wall hung with smallish paintings and hardwood flooring, two men sit with their backs to us at mid distance, on a bench. One at left has a bald spot and brown hair, one at right has silver hair.
October 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Of all the food I've ever photographed, this #Paella surely had the largest taste-to-attractiveness ratio I've ever enjoyed.

Prepared at #Botafumeiro, #Barcelona, in the traditional manner for which they are justly famous, the flavor and texture were magnificent. 5 Nov 2024

#FoodOnFriday #Photo
A large plate with white center and blue-dotted edge, holds a pile of ugly but delicious paella: rice with seafood (that's an open clam shell upper right) and seasonings, with an overall dark brown look.
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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So, anyway, in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts building, there were these floors and openings and columns that all lined up in nice ways, so here.

29 December 2022

#RVA #Richmond #USA #VMFA #Photo
In this building, most visible surfaces are covered in honey-colored marble; from this POV, two floors are visible through various arches that line up. There's also a reflection of the floor from windows in the rear, and an abstract sculpture visible in the arch on the second floor ahead.
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I am in a good mood this afternoon? Here's the very uninteresting reason.

My fav lap-device is an iPad, which has a lightning connector. The cable I'd been using had a defect: the grounding cap that curves around the free end of the connector broke off near the indents that hold the connector in,
This is a close-up view of an Apple "lightning" connector, as used in my iPad. It is rectangular, flat, and has 8 little contacts on each face; the entire rectangle is surrounded by a thin strip of metal.
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Don't make me go to the chalk board to draw an example.
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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What a sense of *almost* deja vu! I saw this related work, Glenn Ligon's "Double America" (2012) at the National Gallery of Art (Wash DC) in a show called "The Double: Identify and Difference in Art since 1900", in October 2022. It was at the entrance to the exhibition.
An art work created from electrified neon tubes, spelling "America", with "ERIC" letters individually reversed, above a not-quite mirror image below (in which the upright, reversed letters, appear as mirror images of *unreversed* letters). Wires hand down from the neon tubes to power supplies--black boxes--on the floor. It's mounted on a white, gallery wall. To the left is a partical view of the entrance to the exhibition gallery, with part of a person and art work visible.
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This lovely sculpture of "Shorthorn Bull: Bridgebank Paymaster" (1930), by Herbert Haseltine, of Red Acajou marble, is in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA [USA].

What's not evident here is the scale: the bull is about 16" long, and very heavy looking.

29 Dec 2022
Seen from the side: a sculpture of a bull in red-orange marble. The bull is very hefty, with short legs, short horns, and an expressive face half turned toward the camera. This is a detail of the sculpted foot, of the bull seen in the first photo. This is a detail of the head of the sculpted bull seen in the first photo; lighting on the short hon casts a shadow diagonally from the right.
September 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Speaking of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Richmond, VA), I just liked this picture I took of Isaac & Pat in another equestrian gallery. 29 December 2022

#SJB #PLS #VMFA
In an art gallery, several gold-framed equestrian paintings hang on mint-green walls--with an antique sideboard in the middle center of the wall. Just off center in the front is a man in a dark jacket and trousers; in the back right corner, a tall man with long red hair, wearing a cap, a red T-shirt and jeans.
September 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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The last time we were at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA, USA) we found a chaise longue in this gallery, sat down, and a very nice fellow Friend of Dorothy offered to take this photo of us: ta da!
Isaac on right, me on left.
Two men sitting in an art gallery, smiling. On left: white hair & beard, glasses, suspenders, green plaid shirt, jeans. On left: white hair & beard, red plaid shirt, dark trousers. The walls are a nice light blue, with a number of gold-framed equestrian paintings hung on them.
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM