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@linda-howes77.bsky.social

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I am a creative photographer and also love sharing history and art on my website linda-howes.pixels.com
#MovieStars #historicPhotos #macrophotography #Crystalballs #landscapes #reflections #flowers #naturephotography #vintagephotos #Space #Royalty

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I always have fun taking photos of raindrops! Check out my collection! linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/spa...

#raindrops #bokeh #water #dew #Droplets #grass #nature #naturePhotography #wallartforsale #giftideas #Beauty #sparkle #reflections #magical #sunlight

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Check out my Movie and TV star collection linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/leo...

#LeonardNimoy #WilliamShatner #StarTrek #TvShow #Spock #CaptainKirk #television #actors #Space #TheFinalFrontier #WallartForSale #giftideas

December 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM

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@richardlaeton.bsky.social

#annashummingbird #hummingbird #drawing #art #design
The hummingbird possesses a unique and enchanting set of qualities that make it a symbol of beauty, agility, and joy.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM

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Melissa D Jones

@rouxroamer.bsky.social

I've loved seeing the northern lights more in the last year than ever before. #sky

#blueskyartshow #landscape #nature #photography #stunday #landscapephotography #art #photographersunited #eastcoastkin

A band of green aurora below a thick band of vibrant pink at Vista House in Oregon.

December 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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richardlaeton.bsky.social

@richardlaeton.bsky.social

#blackphoebe #bird #drawing #art #artist

A Black Phoebe symbolize wisdom and hidden knowledge.

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December 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM

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Jim Musil Painter

@jimmusilpainter.bsky.social

My painting OWL’S CLOVER

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December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty)

@raggamog.bsky.social

The association between robins and the Oak King is rooted in Celtic mythology and Pagan lore. The robin is the bird representation of the Oak King, who battles the Holly King (represented by a wren) for dominance at the turning of the year.

#ArtAdventCalendar #CelticFolklore #Robin #Folklore

An original artwork of a robin redbreast perched on a branch, created using watercolour paints on paper.

December 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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James Marvin Phelps

@jamesmarvinphelps.bsky.social

There’s nothing quite like watching a desert sunset through the North Window in Arches National Park. The textures glow, the colors warm, and the whole scene feels like nature’s showtime.

#utah #arches #nationalpark #landscape #starburst #photography #nature #outdoors #adventure

December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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david

@fringe.com

Sunrise: Marlboro.

The sun will rise tomorrow, and we will be OK.

#photography #landscape #southwest

We’re at Marlboro Point just after the sun breaks the horizon. Our feet are standing at the edge of a cliff, and a valley floor is several hundred feet straight down below us. We’re looking at a butte that comes into the photograph from the middle right and leads the eye to the upper left. It isn’t a a large butte, and quickly comes to a narrow spire. Just before the butte is a smaller one with two spires that come to points. The sun is streaming in from the left, lighting up the left side of the buttes and leaving the right sides in shadows.

The buttes jut into a valley, and beyond that, more buttes rise, forming the valley. As far as the eye can see, and we can see very far away, there are more buttes fading into the distance. The Henry Mountains are barely visible on the left side of the photograph.

The sky has some sweeping clouds that form a gentle swirl, almost rising from the top of the butte before us. The swirl sweeps from right to left, creating a nice counterpoint in the photograph. There are purple tones in the clouds and just a scrap of blue.

December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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Brymo

@brymo.bsky.social

Natural Curves
#477 taken 7:39 pm
#art
#photography
#macro
#shell

December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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Jasper Sharp

@jaspersharp.bsky.social

Artomyces pyxidatus, the Crown-tipped Coral or Candelabra Coral fungus, was not seen in the UK over the entire 20th century, its last record in 1886 until a spate of recent findings around 2022, which is when I found this specimen (in East Kent). Where did it disappear all this time?

December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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Forbes

@forbes.com

Ejections from the Sun could cause the northern lights to be visible further south this week.

Northern Lights Forecast: 15 States May See Aurora Sunday Night—And Even More Monday

Ejections from the Sun could cause the northern lights to be visible further south this week.

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December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸

@alinagrafik.bsky.social

#Stunday

Pismo Beach, California (from the pier)

#EastCoastKin #PismoBeach #WestCoastKin #Scape #LandscapePhotography

A shot of the waves rolling into the coastline of Pismo Beach, California. The shot is looking into the sun, so the water looks silver due to the reflection. Along the coast are tall palm trees that rise above everything else. The sky is fairly cloudy, but the sun was shining on the waves for this shot.

December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM

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Mercurial Muse Art

@mercurialmuseart.bsky.social

In a big moment for me, I got all my art up for the first time in my first exhibition. It's an adorable little wine bar in Bremerton called Grumble and Wine. The raccoon even sold last night!

#art #artsky #bskyart #artshow #Bremerton #bignews

December 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Iveta's Aviary

@ivetasaviary.bsky.social

Tree Swallow & Northern Watertrush #birdtober #birdart #animalart 🪶

Ink and watercolor drawing of a tree swallow

Black and white marker drawing of a Northern Watertrush singing on a branch

December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Ian Riddler Photography

@ianriddler.bsky.social

Milky Way and Aurora over Ruataniwha

A smaller aurora over Lake Ruataniwha.
Just giving it a little Glow-Up to make it pretty.

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#Twizel #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with Soul."

#Aurora #Galaxy #Astrophotograph #Nightscape #Landscape #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Bucketlist #PureNZ #Epic

December 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM

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Menestune

@menestune.bsky.social

Amazingly clear, see-through water at this alpine lake in Washington state.

#nature #love #majestic #lake #scape #landscape #sky #eastcoastkin #PNW #photography #nokings #joy #WA
#mountains #goodnight #bluesky

Low angle picture of a green-blue alpine lake with a mountain rising behind with snow on some of the slopes. The mountains around are mostly grey with lots of green trees dotting them. The water is so clear you can see through it to the rocks on the bottom of the shore.

December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

“Portrait” by 草間彌生 / Yayoi Kusama (Japanese) - Acrylic on canvas / 2015 - “Self-Portrait” exhibition, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain) #WomenInArt #art #artText #BlueskyArt #YayoiKusama #草間彌生 #Kusama #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #GuggenheimBilbao #SelfPortrait #JapaneseArtist #AsianArtist

In “Portrait,” Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生) turns the traditional self-portrait into a cosmic emblem. Instead of modeling flesh and light, she uses her lifelong language of “infinity nets” and dots which are motifs that grew from her childhood hallucinations and became her way of both expressing and managing overwhelming sensations.

She depicts herself as a stylized bust-length figure set against a vibrating field of yellow and black. She has a rigid bob of hair shaped almost like a helmet, rendered as a flat yellow form covered in neat grids of tiny black dots. Her face is like an oval mask of the same yellow, its “skin” entirely replaced by dots of many sizes, from pinpoints to large, inky circles. Dark almond eyes, heavy brows, and black lips anchor the otherwise pattern-saturated face as it looks straight out toward us. A narrow yellow neck, also dotted, rises from a semicircular collar and broad dress that cascade into scalloped bands, lace-like edges, and beaded rows. Behind her, branching nets and radiating cone forms create a halo that seems to pulse and spiral, merging body and background into a single, immersive field of pattern.

The yellow and black palette echoes her famous pumpkins and room installations, while the repeating cones recall soft, organic forms she once covered furniture and clothing with. Her direct gaze suggests a fixed identity, yet the body dissolves into decoration, enacting Kusama’s idea of “self-obliteration,” where the self melts into the surrounding universe.

Shown in a gallery focused on self-portraits, this work situates the artist as both subject and environment as a woman who has spent decades transforming private visions into shared, exuberant worlds, inviting us to step inside the very patterns that define her life and art.

December 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one.
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge