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Blurred_Lens
@lensblurred.bsky.social
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Dan, in real life. Hobby photographer. Mostly urban decay, and birds on telegraph poles*. Often black & white. Posts usually accompanied with a flippant attempt at comedy.

*Not strictly limited on this

Kent, UK
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Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social · Oct 9
The Settling

#Photography
Photograph using a fairly long focal length of a brick built chimney or kiln (or something else?!). Pigeons have settled on the top, with one circling for a space. A dull yellow wooden door a few feet beneath the top, a metal platform and railing underneath (no external stairs). A buddleia grows from the brickwork off one side. The tops of a few other buildings visible at the bottom and some cables travel across. Large grey sky above.
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The bus stops here
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Monochrome photograph. The side of a concrete block of a bus stop, resembling a pillbox. A bin is stood waiting. A grass verge leads towards it. Behind are some leafless trees, and beyond them, fields disappearing into a mist.
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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The bus stops here
#Photography
Monochrome photograph. Looking across a road to a bus stop. Sunlight makes the perspex softly glow, the bench sparkles. The frame of the bus stop and accompanying trees create long shadows on the road.
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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sarahcoomer.bsky.social
Seasonal marketing post! Print stocks replenished, creepy Christmas cards now available individually (though not THAT many, so don't hang about if you really want a horrible Marley card) and Advent calendars still available (inc free Borley Xmas card!) sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
Six spooky Christmas cards arranged clumsily on distressed black wooden floorboards Four prints of illustrations based on supernatural stories arranged haphazardly on a wooden floor A spooky Advent calendar based on a vintage postcard of Borley Rectory, placed for the purposes of poorly lit marketing photography on wooden floorboards.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Heavens above 🙏
#Photography
Monochrome photograph. Wilson Street Chapel in London is tucked between two buildings. Above, several tower blocks loom from behind, two of them under construction.
November 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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I was looking at this, and how it looks like someone has taken scissors to it and cut ⅔ down. And then two eyes appeared in those bushes and now I can only see a face. And it's late.
Monochrome photograph of the lower half post of a football goal. The painted lines stop a few inches short at each side, a logistical problem. Cut tie-wraps from previously bulging nets are scattered on the grass.
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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A gentle erosion
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Photograph of an urban wall supporting a bridge above. The wall is covered in colourful graffiti. A patch in the centre has been work away by a steady stream of water, leaving a rusty coloured patch of brick. On the pavement the water channels across the pavement, down into the gutter.
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Mondays
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Monochrome photograph. Barren heathland damaged by fire. Mounds of earth in the foreground, shadows on the edges of little 'craters'. A leafless tree beyond. In the background are trees and shrubs.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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gambolloch.bsky.social
rainy day thread
A tall free standing walk up apartment building
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Sundays
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Monochrome photograph of an inner city football/basketball cage. A street cabinet this side of the tall fence is covered in graffiti. 3 footballs wait on the concrete pitch in anticipation. A block of flats behind.
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It's going to be OK
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All 4 images are monochrome photographs. Half of the vertical of this image is taken up by a concrete post. The letters O & K are backlit with a gap between them. The other half, a lorry cab and bin bags strewn on the pavement in front of a building. The 'OK post' again but looking the other way. Behind and to the side are the lines of high rise buildings. In the distance a man is walking towards the back of a lorry The 'ok post' but central with a gap each side. A man walks away, obscured slightly by a potted shrub. A battered keep left sign on a traffic island on a London road. It has obviously been hit several times in it's duty. Scuff marks and pieces hanging off. Behind is an urban scene of high rise tower blocks.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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nicktankard.bsky.social
My illustrations for The Woman in Black are now available as signed giclee prints. You can view them on my website nicktankard.co.uk I’ll also be making the original illustrations available here on Bluesky, watch this space…The illustrations are in the hardback edition published by Vintage Classics.
A black and white printing ink and black pen illustration of a man driving a pony & trap towards a large dark house, the only source of illumination being a light by the doorway of the house and stars in the night sky. Spooky & atmospheric.
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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lolansell.bsky.social
Hull
‘SAUSAGE MEAT SUPPLIES’ A modest flat roof building with a red barred doorway
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Space Invaders
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Photograph looking up at an unusual 'pylon'. It's comprised of two vertical parallel poles which support 3 horizontal bars, these have uprights at each end supporting 3 cables either side. It resembles a Space Invaders ship, I think anyway!
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Volatile urban things
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Monochrome photograph. Looking above the baskets and handlebars of a gang of Lime bikes, up to the end of a terrace of Georgian(?!) townhouses. The apparent scars of a chimney breast and fireplaces seem to indicate the terrace would once have continued on. The bottom two floors have been rendered, curiously continuing up to cover the cavity of (I guess) a former fireplace on the next floor up.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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These corners
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Monochrome photograph of a street corner on London. An old fashioned looking bicycle is chained to a lamppost. Behind it, the brick wall and building of a post war electrical substation. Industrial equipment and original signs looming over the pavement below. Rubbish bags piled against the wall. A curved pavement is followed by double yellow lines. Further behind a modern tower block replaces the sky.
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Abandon ye vehicles
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Monochrome photograph. A sign leaning against a whitewashed wall reads, 'Road ahead closed access only'. A Lime bike leans against the wall next to it.
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Oh well, back to it
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Monochrome photograph of a triangular 'men' at work warning sign. The white space has been drawn on. Slightly out of focus behind are people going about their lives in the city
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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notquitelight.bsky.social
Manchester & Salford,
October 30th 2025

First Light: 05.46
Sunrise: 07.04
Sunset: 16.39
Nightfall: 17.57
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Street Party 🥳
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Photograph of a black cable emerging from a white pipe in the pavement. The cable has been stripped back, an explosion of different coloured smaller cables are exposed and tangled together. Like the remnants of a party popper. A grubby brick wall with no mortar between the bricks provides the backdrop.
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The Curtain Raiser
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Monochrome photograph of a white painted brick wall. Tagged on the wall in black is 'Show', either side are two large square flowers beds with twiggy climbing shrubs - these are only just in the frame. On the paving in front are scattered leaves.
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Multiple Storys
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Photograph of a concrete multi-storey car park covered in graffiti. The main shaft at the front is central, flanked either side by the strips of concrete that make the walls of each floor. Those walls are tagged on most floors with block style lettering.
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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andycropperart.bsky.social
I feel incredibly grateful to everyone who came along on Friday to mark the opening of my show at @cupolacontemporaryart. Sharing the work with such generous company, and seeing it so warmly received, made the night unforgettable.

Thank you,
Ax

📸 Graham Shapley
📸 @johnlau_fineart
📸 @andycropperart
A photograph looking into a gallery space with paintings on the walls and a sign on the window which says - Paintings Andy Cropper 11 October - 15 November looking inside a white gallery space, paintings on the walls, and several people talking looking inside a white gallery space, paintings on the walls, and several people talking
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Mushroom hunting in the woods, and now on the verge of a Sunday roast. October Sundays 🤤
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Macro photograph looking down at a cluster of tiny soft light grey mushrooms Photograph of a Magpie Inkcap mushroom Macro photograph centred on 3 small yellowy mushrooms, the middle one in focus. Macro photograph of the top of a white mushroom. The edges are lifted and a pattern on the top makes it look like a flower
October 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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They're in town, people
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Monochrome photograph of a circus Big Tent behind three lorry trailers with the name 'Zippos' along the side
October 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Top Bins
#urbangoals #urbangaze
Photograph of the brick wall at the back of an industrial building. A football goal is painted in white, bordered on each side by shrubs. The grass Infront worn.
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM