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scratchedelement.bsky.social
Scratched Element
@scratchedelement.bsky.social
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🏚️So, you've come back.
🫂I'm so glad you could join me,
🚦That little voice in your head.
👁️Replace your eyes with mine and
🏭I'll show you how things really are.

Original photography daily 📍 Grand Rapids, MI
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Scratched Element @scratchedelement.bsky.social · May 23
Now I'm not just in your walls, I'm on them too. You can now buy prints of my work.
scratchedelement.darkroom.com
High quality museum grade 100% cotton paper, as well as high contrast metal and framed shots, shipped straight to you. 🫵
Prices are low now, but act fast because nothing lasts forever. 👁️
A selection of varied and beautiful art for your loyal consumption
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gorl.gay
f r a m k e
frankie, my tabby, sitting up against the wall next to a lime green and yellow light. the light is casting a cool looking shadow of her on the wall.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 When the terror strikes
You can run
But as long as their occultor stands
The shadow will be waiting for you
And when it ensnares you
True darkness will reveal itself
Darker than dark
#photography #art #moody #liminalspace #nightphotography #horror #midwest
The shadow of a diamond shaped street sign imposed on a sidewalk and bordering backyard fence at night. A driveway basketball hoop and its shadow which is projected on to a garage door by a nearby streetlight. Across the street a shadow grows from a utility pole on the other side of the road. Another, parallel to it, comes from an unknown source. A particularly tall utility pole in a suburban American neighborhood at night.
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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bardicroots.me
Some photos I took that I like
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 I am thankful every day
That you don't remember what happened here
Why don't we go home now?
Better times are waiting for us there
#photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
A suburban house with an American flag on a pole in the front yard. It's dark. There are no lights but your own.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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danielhintz.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Having trouble finding a space? This table is reserved, sorry. We're having an engagement party. He's getting married to his job.
The old ball & chain, you know how it is.
Come back when you find someone truly special
Who will bleed you dry
While you smile for every second of it.
#photography
An outdoor folding table surrounded by 6 fold-out chairs illuminated by a single flood lamp.
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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atlas.has.house
Abducted 👾 (b.1926)
Mount Clemens, Macomb County Michigan.

#photography #architecture #oldbuildings #houses #nightphotography #night #tinted #tint #blue #purple #urban #mtclemens #macomb #michigan
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 It must be so frightening for a little prey animal like you
To be lost in the woods like this
Let me take you under my wings
Where you will be kept safe and pampered
Until I succumb to boredom or hunger
And love you even more
#photography #art #streetphotography #liminalspace #nightphotography
A suburban driveway leading to a separated garage lit by a bright green light A dead tree that, when the light hits it just right, somehow seems more alive than ever. A single rocking chair sits on the front porch of a suburban home at night.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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strangehouse.bsky.social
Sisters from the strange house
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸It is the most awful task
To acknowledge
That you must use your own wings
To fly yourself out of here
Lest your roots settle
And become stuck here with me, forever
#photography #art #streetphotography #nightphotography #liminalspace
A lonely industrial side street at night. A light on the side of a building shines behind a street sign reading "NO PARKING ANY TIME". A commercial side road that is simultaneously cold and warm. A shadowy figure stands in the reflection of a window. A dead end culdesac in winter.
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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danielhintz.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 A new flavor of misery is in stores for a limited time
Grab it before it's gone for good
As it slides down your throat and dissolves your teeth
You recall a time when you've tasted this before
A recycled experience brought back from the past
For a limited time only
#photography #art #liminalspace
A single pink light pole illuminates a concrete back lot behind a small commercial building.
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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paullarkin.bsky.social
The Alley Between Us
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #urbanphotography #photo #dailypic #dailyphoto #streetphotography #monochrome
Black and white photo of the side of a brick building looking onto an alleyway in Roanoke, VA. The brick structure extends to the top of the photo and beyond and features a series of shuttered windows. At ground level, a double door, air conditioning unit, and lineup of utility boxes, complete with a complex tangle of pipes and wires, face outward into the alley.
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 OVERDOSE #photography #art #nightphotography #surrealism
I can't stop looking at where we're going The stop lights won't stop moving My eyes can't stop trying to focus on what's out there This car can't stop soon enough
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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danielhintz.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
Feeling lost? Consider yourself lucky that you're feeling anything at all. There are people who have lost everything in this jungle. Nothing in here will jump out and get you, but that doesn't make it safe. One lapse in concentration, one wrong turn and it's over. #photography #art
A flash photo of wild weeds in the woods. Probably poisonous. The sun can be seen through the brush. Chasing it is a bad idea. The reflective steel back of a street sign in the woods.
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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eastofwestla.bsky.social
Fog, L.A. River

#fog #river #streetphotography #Losangeles #urbanphotography #cityphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photographyBluesky
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Whoever this is, they keep looking at me, and no matter how many times I ask them not to they just keep staring. I've given up. Looks like we're in this together. #photography #art #selfie #selfportrait
It's still you.
October 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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bloodraynes.bsky.social
Evening #BlueSky 🫖 There are things far more hideous in the graveyard than just ghosts 😳 (alt for more) Have a great evening friends☺️ #Photography #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographyOfBlueSky #AltText #HorrorStory #Cemetery #Stalking
#Spooktober #werewolf #31DaysOfHalloween #SensoryArt #spooky
After the picture description, we will have tonight‘s fear inducing fable. Our photograph is in B&W,capturing a quiet, somber cemetery scene. At the center stands a large stone cross mounted on a solid base, weathered and darkened with age. An ornate circular carving decorates the middle of the cross. Around it are old gravestones of various shapes & sizes, many covered in moss or partially hidden by overgrown plants. Our picture is finished with a white border frame & now for tonight’s fearful fable, I call it, The Howl Among the Stones. On moonless nights, the old cemetery never truly slept. The ivy crept, the iron fences whispered in the wind, and beneath the heavy cross, something else moved. Gravedigger Thomas had worked these grounds for thirty years and thought he’d seen every trick of the night, the fog that slithered low, the shadows that stretched like fingers. But on this night, there was a sound he could not place: a low growl that rippled through the graves like thunder underground. He turned his lantern toward the rows of crosses. Between them, something crouched. A figure, taller than any man, shoulders broad, eyes glowing faintly like coals buried deep in ash. It moved with a slow, deliberate grace, circling the larger tombs. Thomas stumbled back, his breath catching in his throat as he realized it wasn’t circling him, it was stalking. The creature’s outline sharpened in the flicker of his light. Coarse fur shimmered in patches, its teeth glinting wet and pale. When it raised its head, the sound that followed was not quite a wolf’s howl, not quite human, something torn between the two. The gravedigger dropped his lantern and ran. Behind him, paws struck the stone path, echoing between the tombs. He dared not look back, but he could feel it, its hunger, its sorrow, and its curse. By morning,the lantern was found beside the great cross, still warm, the earth around it freshly disturbed. No one saw Thomas again. Sleep well friends.
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 It's hard to believe, but we really are on our own now. Pushed out of the nest like a fledgling chick. Everyone seems so confident, like they were ready for it straight out of the womb, but here I am still quivering and panicking over what direction I should be heading. #photography #art
A jungle gym and slide in a playground. The sky is dark and overcast. Snow dusts the ground. There are no children.
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
yeah there were a few people there 📍Grand Rapids, MI #nokings #photography #streetphotography #grandrapids #michigan #freepalestine
A narrow angle shot of a crowd of people holding various signs protesting the Trump regime. A line of priests on their knees in the street in front of a large crowd of protestors A speaker advocates for Palestine under a covered stage in front of a crowd of people An old man wearing a cute frog hat holds a sign reading "NO CONS, NO CROWNS, NO KINGS"
October 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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erikaleesears.bsky.social
Night Lights #art #oilpainting
October 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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danielhintz.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Things used to be so simple. Input A expect output B. Now there's a whole new mess of signals to worry about. Voltages cross contaminating lines, frequency interface, social engineering. Protect your precious secrets with 256-bit AES encryption. #photography #art
Cylindrical vents on top of a nondescript brick structure. A power transmission line terminates next to a softball field in a park. Overhead lighting keeps the lines company. Ground level high voltage transformers
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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mimitlrife.bsky.social
‘Standing Tall’ (2025)
Two palm trees standing tall on Golden Beach in Venice, Florida for a peaceful landscape photo.

#Scape #Landscape
#ColorADay #BWFri
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#Photography #Beaches
#VeniceFlorida #thelittlethings
#BlackAndWhitePhoto
A black-and-white photo of two palm trees on a sandy beach in Venice, Florida, June 2025. You can see the ocean in the background as the sun is setting on the right side of the photo.
October 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM