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Jude 📷
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I love looking at the world through a lens, both at home and away.
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The Clearing

A sunny day in early autumn at
#ClumberPark

#NationalTrust
#ForestFriday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A landscape oriented image taken across a lake, the bottom third of scene is filled with the lake. The top two thirds are filled with wonderful deciduous trees just starting to get their autumn colour (sadly most of the leaves are gone now and with the stormy weekend we have forecast they’ll no doubt all be gone in a few days 🍁) towards the right hand side just above the lake is a clearing and in it stands a colonnaded folly / summer house.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Forest Reflected

#BWFri
#ColourADay
#ForestFriday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

#PeakDistrict
#HowdenReservoir
A black and white landscape oriented image, which is almost split in two as it’s a scene with its reflection. The top half is a heavily tree lined foreshore, the trees are mainly conifers. Coming on from left and right in two sweeps that meet on the upper right third. The sky above them is dramatic with clouds. All of this then flipped on the bottom half as it’s reflected in the reservoir below, blurred slightly by ripping on the water.
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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I don’t have many images of fish in my catalog but here’s one from the aquarium in #BotanicalGardens on #Madeira taken during our holiday there back in January.

#FishyFriday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A landscape oriented image taken in the wonderful botanical gardens in Funchal on the island of Madeira. It’s taken looking through the aquarium glass with a group of fish swimming more or less towards me. The majority of them are in the bottom half of the image with on larger one in the top left corner. Balancing the image is light coming in down the right side that is devoid of fish, the interest here is the ripples and light patterns.
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Artichoke in Bloom

Stately artichoke in a stately home garden.

Expiation in ALT.

#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#BotanicalWonders
#PalacesAndGardens
#ChatsworthHouse
A portrait image. The foreground is a bed of artichokes with a number in bloom and more following on. They lead us up to a hedge and trees, two trees one on either side of the image. There is a gap in the centre of the hedge and through it we see the tower of the stately house. The image is topped with a lovely sky, colourful clouds as it’s not long after sunrise and an early morning glow on the distant hills. The house is Chatsworth. This photo is from a wonderful year I spent recording the gardens there. It was a totally unique experience.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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The Rose Garden

#WindowsOnWednesday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
Across the bottom of the image are a large number of shrub roses happily blooming away. Above them coming in from the right is a beautiful old stone building with wonderful arched windows across its front facade and lovely stone detailing across the top. Off to the left we can just see the ornate roof of another building. It’s high summer and the sun is shining.
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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All That Glitters…..

#wackywednesdayart
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A close up encounter of decoration on Brighton Pier. It’s made up of rows of, what I can only describe as dog tag. They caught my eye as they were glinting beautifully in the sun and creating patterns with the various reflections within them.
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Rainbow Rocks

#RockinTuesday
#TidesOutTuesday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

#StBees
#Cumbria
#Beach
A landscape image of the beautiful beach at St Bees on the Cumbrian coast. Looming large in the foreground from the right side and running on into the image are large boulders all worn smooth by the sea. They are all sorts of colours red, yellow, blue, cream…… Above them are cliffs, they run on through the image and round into the headland.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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The Alliance

The evergreens stand on one side of the path, the deciduous on the other, but they happily unite across it.

#sharemondays2025
#ChatsworthHouse
#Autumn
#Woodland
#Path
A landscape image of an autumn scene. Taken in Chatsworth gardens, a favourite haunt of mine, on a woodland path. The path runs into the photo almost in the centre either side of it are trees. Three conifers on the left and three deciduous on the right bedecked in orange and gold leaves. The floor is heavily scattered with leaves as autumn is fast coming to a close. I’ve titled the image The Alliance as the two types of trees are coming together across the path.
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Reeds and Mist

#BlueHour
#LakeDistrict
#Tarn
#Fog
#Mist
#BlueSkyMonday
#MinimalMonday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A very stripped back minimal image. A foggy morning with little visibility and I have focused in on a bed of reeds growing out of the edge of the tarn. They come in from the right hand side and work their way across the image reducing in number as they do so. Beyond them we can just make out the shape of shrubs on the far bank but no detail. Above the shrubs is nothing but fog. A perfect morning for me 😁
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Skeletal Hydrangea Flower

#MacroMonday
#MinimalMonday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#Macro
#Hydrangea
#BlackAndWhite
#Mono
I love the details of flowers at all stages of their lives. This is a black and white photograph of a simple hydrangea as it turns to its skeletal form. All we see is the flower head on a white background making all the details pop.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Autumn Garden

Happy Sunday 🌞

#ColourADay
#OrangeSunday
#Stunday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn
Landscape oriented image. Down the entire left hand side of the image are the branches of a Japanese maple with vivid yellow and orange leaves as it displays its autumn colours. Along the bottom is a moss covered rock, there are more moss covered rocks central in the image. They are large rocks and feature mature trees that seem to be growing out of them. Other than the rocks the image is filled with trees. The acer and the two on the rocks are the subjects of the image.
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Durham

Taken on a visit back in February. It’s such a great little history absolutely packed full of history.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Evening
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#Nightscape
#Durham
#RiverWear
#Cityscape
A late evening landscape oriented image of Durham City taken in February, so it is completely dark, from the vantage point of a bridge over the River Wear. Running from left to right is a weir, that works as a lead in line. There is a bridge crossing the river at the furthest point of it we see. Again coming in from the left are shops and houses with lights on in most of the windows. Almost central up in the night sky are the towers of the cathedral.
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The Stairway

#BlackRockWoods
#Autumn
#Scape
#WoodScape
#mist
#ForestFriday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A landscape oriented image of a mist autumnal woodland. From the right going access the image is a sweeping branch of a beech tree adorned with orange and yellow leaves. The floor of the wood is coated with fallen leaves. Up the left of the image is a tree trunk, going up and out of the image. In the distance and fairly central are steps built into a bank. They are made of logs, very fitting given the environment. We need to duck under the branch, walk across and climb them to see what lays beyond…..
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Switchback

#ColorADay
#BWFri
#ForestFriday
#MonoPhotography
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
A landscape oriented black and white image. It’s taken in dense woodland that has a track running up through it. The track doubles back on itself as it rises through the wood my position is standing on the extreme outside of the bend so across the bottom third of the image the track looms large and retreats back into the scene on both sides. In the middle of the bend is a large redwood growing up and out of the image, as do the trees on the each side of the image.
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Doge's Palace

#PalacesAndGardens
#WeatherAndMood
#Venice
#Doge’sPalace
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
Taken in the courtyard/cloister area of the Doge’s Palace in Venice on a wet and rainy day. The bottom half of the image is the wet tiles that form the floor of the courtyard, there is a large ornate water feature in the middle. The top of the image of os made up of arches that form the two tiers of the cloisters. Two arches in from the right hand side stands an elegantly dressed lady with an umbrella. She has her back to us as she is posing for whoever she is with, they are not visible.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Cloister

Beautiful old windows in #CanterburyCathedral

#WindowsOnWednesday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A landscape oriented image. I’m standing in the cloisters right up in a corner, in front of me sunlight is streaming in through the glassless cloister windows, Canterbury cathedral they are wonderful old stone windows. The light cast lovely shadows on the paved stone floor.
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Railings

The cobbled surface of the terrace seemed to add an extra dimension to the shadow.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSForShadow
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A portrait orientated image. An ornate railing comes into the image on the left hand side and curves across it. The railing edges a terrace. The terrace is lined with small cobblestones. The strong shadow of the railing falls across the cobbles. Access the top of the image, way in the distance is the sea and just before the city of Funchal in Madeira. The image was taken in the Botanical Gardens.
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Shadow Dancers

#ShareMondays2025
#SilverBirch
#Autumn
#WeekSForShadow
#BlueSkyMonday
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The Blue Bottle

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#BlueSkyMonday
#MacroMonday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A square image of a tiny blue bottle. In the bottle and hanging down over it are four blue and white flowers. The flowers are drooping because they are dying. They are doing so very gracefully. I love dead and dying flowers as much as the live ones. They do not decline they evolve.
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Tree Canopy Shadow

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#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSForShadow
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#iPhonePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#Shadow
Landscape oriented image. A tree, growing out of the pavement goes up the left side of the image, just its trunk. A dusky pink wall is behind and on it is cast the shadow of the top of the tree. Meaning we see almost all of the tree but in two parts.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Autumn Blooms

#Stunday
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#BloomScrolling
#Dahlia
#iPhonePhotography
Landscape oriented image. Two jugs and one vase all containing dahlias from the garden. Standing in a row on a polished granite surface so we have their reflection.
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Mist in the Valley

Just as the sun was rising, it’s a magical time to be out 🌞

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Autumn
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Derbyshire
#EastCoastKin
#MatlockBath
#DerbyshireDales
#fog
A landscape oriented image. Taken from the top (120 metres) of High Tor in Matlock looking down towards Matlock Bath. The A6, looking tiny, runs right to left diagonally through the image, dotted along it are a few houses, mist hangs along its length. Two thirds in it turns a bend a disappears. Spreading beyond it are the wooded sides of the valley beyond. A mist laden plateau is in the top left corner tinted orange by the rising sun.
November 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Four for #FSPrintMondays

I hope I’m within time. I haven’t entered for a while and I’m aware the rules have changed.

@fotospeed.bsky.social

#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
Framing the View A landscape oriented image. The frame is filled with a variety of trees, all moving into their autumn colours. A deciduous tree holds us in on the left and a tall redwood on the right. Across the bottom is a small strip of grass and above some lovely red leaves shrubs. Central in the image and the main focal point is an old stone arch. It’s one of the arches that leads into the maze in Chatsworth gardens. The Great Conservatory A landscape oriented image. Three large trees in their autumn splendour virtually fill the frame. Two on the left and one on the right, their shadows starch away from us diagonally left to right on the ground. The composition is taken from low down in order to see below their canopys. Between the trees in the distance is the Great Conservatory. A wonderful building in Chatsworth gardens. Secret Garden A landscape oriented image. The main focus of the image is a Japanese Maple, its vibrant red in colour. The trunk runs up left side of the frame and the branches arch across the image until they reach another acer on the right. A path runs into the image down the centre of the image, working as a lead in line. Rose Garden A stitches panoramic image. There is quite fence fog which isolates the subject of the image. The rose garden at Chatsworth. It sits centrally boarded by two tightly clipped yew hedges. Stone columns run across the front and topiary yews within it. A beautiful old stone building sits at the back. To the far side of the rose garden, just outside of it, is a splendid holm oak vibrant orange even in the fog. A couple of other trees can be made out in the background but nothing else because of the fog.
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Tangled

A slighty spooky woodland mono for #Halloween 👻

#ForestFriday
#Haunted
#Spooky
#HauntedForest
#ClassicMono
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A landscape oriented black and white image. It’s in a fairly dense woodland and the frame is filled with trees other than a small strip of bracken and grass along the bottom. On the left third is a multi stem tree. It’s quite young and very tangled in its growth, there are branches in all directions. It’s a deciduous tree of some sort, we’re in winter so there are no leaves. The background trees are predominately pine. We can’t see the tops of any of the trees. It’s a little misty and quite atmospheric.
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Autumn Lane

#ColourADay
#YellowThur
#Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
#Autumn
A landscape oriented image with a road coming diagonally in from the left side it’s flanked on both sides by stone walls covered in moss. Beyond the wall on the far side are a row of large mature beech trees with their leaves shining yellow in the bright autumn sunshine.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM