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dilettante. my cat was briefly internet famous. he/him.
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damianward.bsky.social
Early Birds No. 8, Buckinghamshire 2021.

#photography
An image of some power lines with a bird in motion and another one sitting still. © Damian Ward 2021.
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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panchromatic.bsky.social
Canals and locks of Birmingham 🚣‍♂️💧

📷 Ricoh 500g
🎞 Ilford XP2
⚗️ AG Photo Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead
Underneath a large, cavernous bridge space over a canal. An historic brick factory building on a canal with a brick chimney stack. In the foreground there are a couple of long boats on the water. A 3 level brick building sits on a bridge over the canal. A path alongside the water walks past some historic buildings. A brick bridge over a canal with a tall apartment building in the background.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
"3 (buttons down)", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 - $150 (Cdn) & "8 of buttons", oil on watercolour paper, 5/14 x 7 1/4", 2025- $125(Cdn). DM if interested. #art
A small painting of part of the front of a white button down shirt showing 3 white buttons. It consists of 2 sheets of paper, the buttons side on the left overlapping the right. A small painting of 8 shirt buttons in a variety of colours and sizes, laid out like the suit on a playing card.
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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palaeoboy.bsky.social
Each day I went to you, hoping for romantic whisps of fog. Only for them to arrive on the day I left forever. #BelieveInFilm
A black and white Polaroid of a white ruined wall with a big arched window. Framed by vegetation
September 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
18/9/25 - nocturn
small hours big time lights out in the kitchen / the kindness of candlelight on our table of stones house plant shadows around the sink old tapes on old tape player ( H. Williams, Lego My Ego)
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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jrbolt.bsky.social
I'm not much of a photographer but I like doing long exposure stuff at night. Basically the whole reason I got into this
Long exposure night shot - A dark path under a Skytrain track A nighted alley with some luminous commercial buildings at the end of it The parking lot and brutalist overhanging buttresses of a stadium at night A ghostly parking lot tree at night with fog swirling around it
September 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj
4 panel comic P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw" P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it. P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within. P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"
November 8, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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behindthebluemotel.com
No brain, we do not need to take another still life of the moonshine jug today. We've already taken as good a still life of that subject as we're ever gonna get.
A black-and-white abstract still life of a moonshine jug with a thin band of light forming a path traced down the curves of the cork, mouth, and shoulder of the jug.
July 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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alfie.photography
Apologies if you've seen this before. One from my archive, shot back in 2012, that I just have a nice feeling from every time I bump into it in my hard drive.

Made with model & friend, Shinyong. On a day of lovely light in Tokyo.

Apart from editing out a few dust spots, straight out the camera.
A head and shoulders, black and white portrait of Korean-Japanese model, Shinyong. She's facing to the right of the frame. Wearing a black suit jacket, she has a very sculpted bob style haircut. She's looking down towards the bottom right corner of the photo. The large semi-circle of light is the natural flare pattern of light that comes into this old Nikon lens when you shoot close to the sun. The bokeh in the background is from light coming through the trees of the park we were in.
July 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
2 more from the series "It's not me, it's you."
"RRRUFFrrruff", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2025- $800(Cdn). A self portrait painting showing me, glowering face behind my hand which is shaped like a dog barking shadow puppet. The background is a simple interior with a small framed print over my right shoulder. My mouth is hidden behind my barking dog hand, my eyes glaring. I'm wearing a grey & black knit scarf, grey knit shirt & black ball cap. "P-P-P-POWWW!", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2025- $800(Cdn). A self portrait oil painting in progress. The background and some of my face are getting some paint. It's a simple interior, slant golden light illuminates a couple of doors behind me, a framed print hangs on the wall over my right shoulder. My hands are in front of my face held like a finger gun straight at the viewer, right eye squeezed shut, the left taking aim. I'm wearing a dark sweater & ball cap.
July 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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deborahparkin.bsky.social
I've always loved photographing flowers - these portraits are from a series I made using the wet plate collodion process.
a wet plate collodion portrait of two white tulips that are slightly open. another portrait of tulips - these white tulips are in a vase that is blurred due to the camera (using the shift and tilt of the bellows) - the portrait is black and white with sepia overtones due to using the Victorian photographic process, wet plate collodion. Another wet plate portrait of three white tulips - the tulips are placed diagonally across the plate - the stems starts from the left hand bottom corner and the flowers sweep upwards to the centre of the frame. A portrait of a jug of white tulips that are open - the image is taken using the Victorian phototographic process Wet Plate Collodion.
June 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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jaidamack.bsky.social
It turns out that putting Peewee's Breakfast Machine over the Murderbot intro works *so* well, people don't recognize it's a gag.

Anyway, read The Murderbot Diaries.
May 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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josie.zone
In honor of Thomas Friedman’s latest abomination at the NYT, here’s the very accurate parody of him that my friend and I wrote over AOL Instant Messenger in 2006:
craw song (3:21:46 PM): here's my impression of thomas friedman craw song (3:21:53 PM): | WAS IN AN AIRPORT IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY craw song (3:21:56 PM): THAT YOU HAVE NOT GONE TO craw song (3:22:12 PM): AND A MAN SAID TO ME, "TOM-ELEPHANTS ARE THE NEW INTERNET." craw song (3:22:29 PM): AND THAT'S WHEN I REALIZED THAT THE INDIANS WERE RIGHT. craw song (3:22:41 PM): THEY KNEW SOMETHING WE DIDN'T FNSTA (3:22:15 PM): I JUST HAPPENED TO VISIT MY FRIEND THE KING OF THE WORLD FNSTA (3:22:54 PM): AND HE WAS LIKE YOU KNOW, THE INTERNET IS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WEARING A HEDGE-HOG SKIN HAT AT A WEDDING craw song (3:23:23 PM): YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT COLOR HER MOM WAS, BUT YOU SURE AS HELL KNOW NOT TO DRINK THE PUNCH. FNSTA (3:24:00 PM): THE NEXT DAY I JUST HAPPENED TO BE HANGING OUT WITH BILL CLINTON, MAO ZEDONG, AND NICK LACHET craw song (3:24:25 PM): AND THEY SAID TO ME, "TOM-YOU AMERICANS DON'T UNDERSTAND OATMEAL POLITICS." craw song (3:24:36 PM): AND I REALIZED, WE'RE ALL LIVING IN A WORLD OF OATMEAL POLITICS FNSTA (3:24:46 PM): AND I WAS LIKE, CHAT ROOMS ARE LIKE THE BRADY BUNCH EXCEPT WHERE MARSHA IS A TIDAL WAVE AND EVERYONE IS RUNNING FROM HER FNSTA (3:25:17 PM): AND CLINTON SAID, THATS EXACTLY HOW I FELT WHEN I WAS RUNNING THE WORLD craw song (3:25:23 PM): WE HAD A GOOD LAUGH craw song (3:25:28 PM): BUT WE KNEW WE'D LEARNED SOMETHING FNSTA (3:25:42 PM): IT WAS WHIMSICAL YET INFORMATIVE craw song (3:25:57 PM): JUST LIKE MY NEW BOOK FNSTA (3:26:13 PM): WHICH WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING IN A MERE 500 PAGES craw song (3:26:33 PM): I'M ALSO AVAILABLE FOR CORPORATE MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES FNSTA (3:26:45 PM): and that is what tom friedman is like craw song (3:26:50 PM): thank you everyone
February 3, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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gundulablumi.bsky.social
Analoge Doppelbelichtung. Ein stiller See in der blauen Stunde und Nachtlichter.
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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fairyism.bsky.social
- the echoes from the past collection -
Photograph of a scene in the city at night, with several quite high buildings at the horizon. All over the photo are several bokeh lights, some of them in a bright red. The overall toning of the photo is blue, and the building in focus also has some pink / magenta tones. Photograph of the silhouette of a mountain range with the dark and cloudy sky above it. The photo is very dark, and only the outlines of the mountains are illuminated. Capture of the blue hour during sunrise. There is a small piece of mountain range in the photo, and two little birds flying into the dusty landscape. Blue toned photograph of the black silhouette of a small mountain range, against the blue and foggy sky.
April 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ladylowrely.bsky.social
Papier Plié
A bunch of characters in various poses based on photo reference. Top left: a man in a suit scratching his chin. Middle top: lady in a black robe looking disdain with her hands crossed. Top Right: A man in a suit looking spooked. Bottom Left: a man menacingly grinning, bowing and tipping his hat. Bottom Right: a man wearing a suit and hat smiling and holding a cigarette
March 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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bigartthread.bsky.social
Works by self-taught German Jewish photographer Aenne Biermann, 1920s-30s, who began her practice photographing mineral specimens for a geologist friend and then turned to still lifes, architecture, and double exposure experiments in images influenced by the New Objectivity movement.
Black and white photo of a group of curling leaves in close-up against a black background. Black and white photo of three eggs on a black and white table, with shadows falling across the surface. Black and white photo showing a white woman's face with dark hair and eyebrows super-imposed over an upside-down image of a boulevard dotted with people and cars. Black and white photo with low contrast, of tree branches spreading above and bunches of light flowers in bloom.
February 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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bardicroots.me
Adventures with friends that I’ll always remember

Mount granite 2020

#photography
#landscapephotography
A photo of a dog in tall grass and yellow flowers in front of a downed tree The night sky from the top of mount granite A fire lookout on top of mount granite at golden hour Inside a fire lookout with my friend sitting by the stove her dogs rest on the floor in front of of her the sun is setting behind her and shining through the window
February 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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letterformarchive.org
Franklin Type Foundry, Convenient Book of Specimens, Cincinnati, 1892.⁠

Specimen makers aimed to show each typeface at its best, often picking random words that display key letters and characteristics.

#TypeSpecimens #Poetry #Typefaces #Fonts #1890s #Victorian #Typefaces #Fonts
Cropped detail of a specimen page for a decorative display typeface, Condensed Geometric, at different sizes. Text includes: THERE ARE THINGS Whose Reality even Outshines the Fairy-Land In Beauty of Shape and Varied Hues THESE TROPHIES Are More Worthy of Our Prince Cropped detail of a specimen page for a typeface, Lakeside Script, at different sizes. Text includes: There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods, Then is a Rapture on the Lonely Shore. There is Society Where None Intrudes. By the Deep Spa and Music in its Roar Cropped detail of a specimen page for a decorative display typeface, Mystic, at different sizes. Cropped detail of a book’s half-title page reading, “Specimens” in a decorative typeface surrounded by ornaments and a small illustration of a bird.
February 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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finnhop.bsky.social
Chaos theory. A picture from last night's starling murmuration in #Brighton.
A picture taken from the Palace Pier in Brighton around sunset, looking along the seafront towards the West Pier. Hundreds of starlings fill the frame. Some blurry, some sharp. Some very close and some further away. All shapes, sizes and directions. Whoosh.
February 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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aminus.bsky.social
it's important to take breaks from whatever you're doing to go insane with your cat
February 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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scratchedelement.bsky.social
A springy toy in a snowy playground at night. It's not your size anymore. A metal staircase leads up to an intersection. Two paths lead to unknown places but the path forward leads down the slide. It's assumed that it ends somewhere.
January 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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ellipticalnight.bsky.social
Sofia Samatar, Opacities
"NO POEM IS intended for the reader," wrote Walter Benjamin, "no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener." Reading this, I remembered his practice of lifting quotations from texts, which he cherished as if they had been written for him alone.
January 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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hausofdecline.bsky.social
I'm making Rap music about psychic weaponry

soundcloud.com/anechka-the-...
Little Blue Blade
Irreverent, never could be solemn. Anger wasn't T. Turns out it was a me problem. Was an A, tried to put me in the B column. See the writing on my head? I'm a she-golem. A single letter makes the Eme
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January 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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borgprinxe.bsky.social
Spent a golden hour yesterday among the elephant seals
A photograph of a beach backlit by the sun. A group of elephant seals are sleeping. A photograph of two large trees, backlit by the setting sun A photograph of a beach during golden hour with a view of the sun A photograph of a figure on a beach during sunset
January 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM