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L is for Learning (sort of)
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Nature, Art, Equity,The Linearity of Progression, Integrity, Wringing the Fun where you find it

All Direct Posts by my Own Hand - Reposts The Posts that made me Pause, Really Pause (or Smile, Laugh or Want to Share - Sort of)
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I’m sorry you’re running a little low, great that you posted that dreamy photo from a prior month. I saw that you liked snow berries so hope this photo (also October) is a few seconds distraction. I only started to notice them in last years in spite of growing up as a country mouse.
A cluster of white snow berries on a bare twig, some plump and near their end, others barely formed.
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Forest Friday - Sort Of - More Woodland #ForestFriday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnloved #Photography #Iphone #Fotografia #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Autumn #Orange #Decay #NightmareNovember #Kent
A photograph of a decayed sign in woodland at a Natural England Reserve. Rusted and about 8’ tall the words on it are faded orange on a white background in block capitals saying KEEP OUT. However missing letters as the lettered section appears to ‘peal’ away from the structure. For example the OUT is now just a partial O. The background is muted in browns, greys, yellows and green reflective of the soggy seasonal overcast day. It wasn’t clear to the photographer from what or where one should keep out. Sevenoaks, Kent.
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Retired Red Heels - November Rain - Contrived - Sort Of #WeekUForUnloved #AlphabetChallenge #ColorADay #RedWed #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #NightmareNovember #Apathy #Photography #Fotografia #IPhoneCamera #ForTheFunOfIt #UrbanScape #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin
A photo of a pair of red high heel shoes that have lost their plastic/paint coating in places through wear. Positioned atop an accessible wheely bin as an act of hope that a clever passer-by will take them and repaint them and in turn wear them. In the background and mid ground are cars parked on the residential street and the terraced homes on the opposite side of the street. Two of the cars are scarlet in colour prompting the photographer to pause yet again because they simply couldn’t help themselves. It’s a rainy, grey day with water on the bin and path gate (wrought iron), giving the reds particular appeal. One day I’ll finish the day to day tasks in a sensible time frame but not today.
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Street Furniture - Sort Of - RETROo - Loved Or Unloved - BlueSky Monday #BlueSkyMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnloved #TagTuesday #London #Photography #Fotografia #IPhone #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Graffiti #ForTheFunOfIt
A photograph of a three seat sofa situated on the path of a side road in London. Near turquoise in colour it’s at surface level in good condition and not ‘fly tipped’. Visible is a doorway that perhaps conceals its storage facility. Alongside a commercial waste refuse bin, with graffiti/tags on its short side. Taken on a bright day in early spring.
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Forest Friday - Including Camouflaged Rope Swing and a River Running - For The Fun Of It #Scape #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin #Reflection #ForestFriday #Nature #Photography #PhoneCamera #Fotografia #Autumn #River #ForTheFunOfIt #Swing
A photograph of a river across which is visible a clearing in a wooded area. There are large trees partially visible on each bank and in the middle of the image a hanging rope and piece of wood that could be used to swing out across the river. It’s barely visible and might require a ‘zoom in’. The photo is taken on a bright autumn afternoon and the river has clear reflections of the trees in it alongside the blue sky. There is also visible a piece of kit I believe is there to measure flow, depth of the river which is in fact shallow and more stream.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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No Expectation (Sorry) - Charles Dickens ‘Great Expectations’ #WeekTForTelevision #AlphabetChallenge #CharlesDickens #GhostSigns #NightmareNovember #Scape #UrbanScape #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Canon #Photography #Fotografia #Autumn #Rochester #Kent
A photograph of a billboard style poster on the side of a building located in Rochester High Street. A little raggedy and of Charles Dickens (local connection). On the wall above the poster is a ghost sign which is hard to decipher. In this image the poster is dissected by the sloping roof of an adjacent building. The building itself is old, perhaps Industrial Revolution and has beautiful, ornate windows. Colours are muted reflecting the poor light at the time of taking. Early afternoon in November.
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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November Afternoon Skies On BlueSkyMonday Morning #BlueSkyMonday #River #UrbanScape #Scape #Nature #Industrial #Photography #Fotografia #Photo #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #CameraPhone #Autumn #Abstract #Kent
A photograph taken positioning the camera so that the corner of a protective fence is dominating the foreground. With two main supports creating a near triangle or A shape and the three horizontal parts sectioning the image into three layers. The top dissecting the buildings on the opposite bank of the primary local river (Medway). The buildings are low and add a sort of border between the late afternoon sky and river. The low sun behind the camera is providing pleasing light making the buildings pop a little in their creams and red brick including their reflection. The sky and river mirror each other in shades of blue.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Restricted Content AND an Art Show Evening Contribution - It’s still Saturday Somewhere - Sort Of #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening #OrangeSun #ColorADay #PhoneCamera #Rochester #Kent #NoParking #Photography #Fotografia #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Cathedral #Autumn #SunSet #Urban #LookUp
A photograph taken looking up at the street signs on a lamppost. One a deep orange no parking instruction the other a utility code/signifier, more yellow. In the background is Rochester Cathedral and other historic buildings framed or shot so that the lamppost features within a gap in the skyline and doesn’t obscure the principle spire in particular. In fact is framed, sort of, by it. It’s late afternoon and the sun low and out of shot. The sky is blue and near cloudless on a fine Autumn day. Trees and an odd artificial vine (on the lamppost itself) also feature but as enhancement not focus.
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Internal Monologue P2 - Kodak Girl v Reliable (Red) Girl - Creator Still Unknown #NightmareNovember #Red #ColorADay #Green #Photography #Window #Kodak #Canon #Fotografia #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Craft #Noir #SideEye #Art #ForTheFunOfIt #Gaze
A photograph of a roadside gift store window where a display stand features a variety of children’s dolls. Disassembled to replace their torsos with old utility tinware. Such as an old film container and something called Para-Zene that appears to be an insect repellent. The tins are a variety of colours and the dolls less Barbie more generic or Sindy types. Mostly blonde. The Kodak doll hangs on the stand so she appears to be giving side-eye to Para-Zene doll. Likely accidental.
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Fern and Forest Floor - In The Shadows #ForestFriday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadow #Photography #Nature #Fern #Fotografia #ThickTrunk #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Canon
A photograph featuring the base of an established tree in a forest setting. Taken with a focus on the late afternoon light highlighting an otherwise darker image/scene. Across the leaf strewn floor and the fronds of ferns fall the shadows of adjacent trees.
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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What’s Up BlueSky Monday? So Very Sorry (Not Even Sort Of)! Archive Image #BlueSkyMonday #Photography #Fotografia #UrbanScape #IceCreamVan #BugsBunny #Bicycle #Transport #London #Waterloo #London #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #PhoneCamera #BlueDress #MrWhippy #HumansOfBlueSky #Railway #TFL #LooneyTunes
A photograph of a scene outside Waterloo Train station on a road that takes you to the Southbank. In the foreground is a traditional Mr Whippy Ice Cream Truck. With an image of Bugs Bunny reclining on its side. The words ‘often licked, never beaten’ are written along its side albeit cut off a little in this August 2024 snap. Crossing the road is are an adult and child (presumed mother/daughter) seasonally dressed. In the background others go about their day in front of railway arches. It’s sunny and the sky deep blue because of that. A bicycle is partially visible in front of the truck/van.
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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A Nigella Seed Head - You can’t not love the Plant (The Chef Equally Awesome) #OrangeSun #SortOf #ForTheFunOfIt #StunDay #SunShine #November #Autumn
A Nigella seed head in the foreground with the Passion Fruit from the first image in the mid ground, out of focus but present nonetheless.
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Passionately Procrastinating (Pun Intended - Sorry - Sort Of) - Beguiled by the Warmth and Light on the First Day Of November 🤩 - A Seed Head in Comments #ColorADay #OrangeSun #StunDay #CameraPhone #Autumn #PassionFruit #Nigella #SeedHead #Nature #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Photography #Fotografia
A photograph of a Passionfruit, deep yellow in colour. Hanging from a raggedy plant adorning a garden fence. It has a shiny quality partly because the morning sunshine is hitting it creating a light spot on it. In the surrounding image there is a wooden green garden shed, seed heads and other plants, less discernible. To some it’s a scruffy space to me it’s a place of biodiversity and fun and endless surprises.
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Severed Trunk - Fearsome Forest Friday - For Fright Night (Sort Of) #ForestFriday #31DaysOfHalloween #Spooktober #ForTheFunOfIt #Photography #Fotografia #PhoneCamera #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #ThickTrunk #Nature #Autumn #Halloween
A photo of a severed tree trunk. About 4’ high flanked by full height trees covered in creepers, Ivy. Beyond which is more of a wooded area. Out of shot is a small river or stream separating these trees from the rest of the copse. The tones are dark and image was taken late after on an overcast day in Kent. It made me think about a severed hand, the way the roots protrude from the base of the trunk like fingers and how it’s clear that of vines and lighter in colour as a result than the surrounding trees. Bloodless.
October 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Just Jokin’ Around ⚫️⚪️ #HumansOfBlueSky #BackAndWhite #Monochrome #Canon #Photography #Fotografia #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #BeSilly #ForTheFunOfIt #UrbanScape
A photograph predominately of a women dressed in black sports wear and brilliant white trainers and with long blonde hair. She is standing deliberately leaning back a little and just behind a thigh high jet of water that is one of three at the edge of a pool of water. To create the effect she is standing up ‘peeing’. Her head is turned to two companions doing likewise but these two men are obscured from the camera by a tree and the planter it’s in. This being in the immediate foreground. Passersby are watching and smiling.
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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TFL Controlled Tunnel Entrance to the V&A - Tightly Cropped - For The Fun Of It #WallsOnWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #Museum #London #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Photography #Canon #Fotografia #V&A #TFL #Tube #Kensington #31DaysOfHalloween #Tunnel #Architecture
A photograph of the entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum accessible via a tunnel that leads from a tube station. Visible in part is the entrance aperture and museum signage. Flanked by two pillars. The colours in the image are shades of white, grey and black but atop the columns there are red decorative additions a little like inverted trefoils. Or stretched upside down maple leaves, bright, scarlet really. It’s the austere (sort of) colour palette contrasting with this red I like most. Beware this entrance is sometimes closed at times by TFL as part of H&S crowd control measures, particularly during the evening rush hour. *Transport For London
October 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Creature from the Deep - Sort Of, often in the shallows - Local advice, no more spicy than a nettle (Paraphrased - For The Fun Of It) #TidesOutTuesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRock #31DaysOfHalloween #RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #Photography #Fotografia #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Beach
A photograph taken from a low angle of a washed up jellyfish, near translucent and about the size of a cantaloupe. Adorned with seaweed and on a bed of pebbles and shells. Visible to the left is a wooden breakwater and beyond the swale and sea. The tide in this site recedes a fair way due to gentle slope of the beach often revealing secrets and curiosities. NE Kent, SE, UK. Best on sunny days when you can imagine Norway at your 2 o’clock!
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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BlueSky Monday Morning (Friday Actually But…) - The Camera Man #BlueSkyMonday #Canon #UrbanScape #Fall #Fotografia #HumansOfBlueSky #Photography #Architecture #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #Light #London #Sunshine #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour
A photograph featuring an oblique view along the decorative and functional wall skirting the V&A in London. With sunlight creating a pleasing pattern on the wall and ground alike as it’s flecked with the shadows of nearby tall trees. Part of the pavement is made out of a different material, blue, green in colour. In the mid ground are figures seated on a bench including a man examining his camera. Framing the image to the right is a decorative lamppost.
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Originating Tree taken through a Window For The Fun Of It #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanScape #StunDay #FTFOI #Inside
October 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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FALL Leaves, The Carpets they make, the Beautifying Quality they have, Originating Tree in Comments #StunDay #Fall #Autumn #Canon #Reflection #Pool #31DaysOfHalloween #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Canon #Photography #London #V&A #Fotografia #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour
A photograph taken at a low angle across a section of a human constructed pond/pool. Circular, visible are parts of the curve and the concentric lips/steps that are a feature. I understand it’s closed for the season but it still contains (presumably) rain water to depth enough that the windows and a person are nicely (to my mind) reflected. Most attractive though are the leaves floating in the water from a beautiful (possibly Acer) nearby. Some lay on the surface of the water with their stalks standing erect giving the appearance of masts on boats. There are a few out of the main body of water whose redness and shape is exquisite.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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No but I do have a photograph problem, not hours on one subject but an urge. An urge whenever I see a thing, a shaft of light, an angle, a joke I can’t not pause. It slows me though and so perhaps keeps the mania at bay!! 🤩
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Interior Spiral Staircase (Sort Of - That originally adorned/served a town house in Brittany, N France c.1520, displayed in the London V&A) for #Inside #BlueSkyArtShow #Canon #Photography #Fotografia #V&A #London #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Interior #Brittany #Design
A photograph of a portion of the Sainsbury Gallery in the London V&A that I understand to be curated, designed to give the appearance of a street. Albeit the prominent staircase in this image would have been an interior example. The wooden structure is largely intact, made of solid dark coloured wood and supported unobtrusively by metal, perhaps worked iron. Visible beyond are stairs leading to the Metal Works section. The walls and floor of this part of the museum are a mixture of smooth stone, creamy coloured bricks and adorned with further artefacts and added seating. Reasonably accessible as a result.
October 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Forest Floor Friday, That Classic Fungi on a Mossy Log Shot - For The Fun Of It AND the Practice (Sort Of) #ForestFriday #FungiFriends #FTFOI #Photography #Canon #Fotografia #Kent #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Fungi #Autumn #Nature #Scape
A photo of some small fungi taken on a mossy log. The ObsIdentify App tells me they are Mycena galericulata but it’s not 100% on that. To the right of the image are partially damaged faded green leaves still on their stems and more scatter the immediate foreground, brown and fallen and crisp in appearance. The fungi themselves are just under 10 cm in height at their tallest and with think stalks and pale brown caps that are bell shaped without the final lip/flick you’d associate with a bell. In fact they are a tiny bit frilled.
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Date Night, Black And White (Sorry - Sort Of) ⚫️⚪️ #HumansOfBlueSky #WineBar #BlackAndWhite #Interior #Monochrome #Photography #Forografia #CameraPhone #Autumn #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #ForTheFunOfIt
A photograph of two men sitting in a bar at opposite sides of a table engaged in conversation. One has his hand on his chin implying thought, the other his head tilted a little suggesting his focus is fully on the other. Above them is a mirror. In the immediate foreground us a glass of wine, mine and the chairs on the opposite side of my table. The focus is edited in because I ponder posting photos of strangers in photographs at close proximity.
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Philocalism - Creeper - Ivy Adjacent #ColorADay #RedWed #WindowsOnWednesday #Photography #Fotografia #Canon #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #Creeper #Spooktober #Nature #Scape #Urban #Decay #31DaysOfOctober #Autumn
A photograph of part of a row of long disused terraced homes. Taken on a grey day, featuring an end property with the boarded first floor window, roof and chimney visible. In front of which is a utility pole of sorts with cables coming from it, almost as if it’s a ships mast because of a triangle they create (sort of). The building is shown in different grey scale but notable is a creeper doing its thing that is a bright red, scarlet in colour.
October 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM