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Stephen Welsh
@stephencwelsh.bsky.social
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photographer, digital artist, human, committed dawdler
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Google search AI can a bit confused get.
I was looking for the artist - 20th Century and received this ... a blend of both quite different Bacons.
Image of google search results for francis bacon merging the accomplishments of the 16th and 20th century entities ... with a picture of the 16th century bacon
May 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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WTAF

😱 disgusted with fellow humanoids

And they vote ....
April 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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How much of your state is "fenced" ?

How many states shoot the apex predator for being within cooee of a bleeping sheep?

how many sates have made tigers extinct? Devils? Quolls?

Koala habitat is prime suburban land apparently.

Australia the bloody.
meerkat standing upright on a plinth staring at the camera while zoo visitor resplendent in two tone blue pants suit roams the wilds of the cafe Young male lion having a rest staring at the camera after a long day resting male silverback gorilla on all fours glancing at the camera
March 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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"fresh prince of upwey"

#bitds #nature
male juvenile king parrot in his teenage mottlery of green and red, perched in a shrub
February 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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"Tatterdemalion"

Butterfly wings become a little tattered with age. Flight, while still achievable, becomes a little erratic and rather more short haul
closeup of a common brown butterfly with tattered wings alighted on a grass stem
February 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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crimson rosella feathers have a lot to offer even as they decay #birds
a very tired blue crimson rosella feather showing the light cream coloured rachis between the black barbs that have been swept diwn by rain, all ovef the blue barbs with the tree trunk the feather is stuck in tge background. an abstract image of a well worn feather with limited focus on a few barbs that curve and form a wave.
January 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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"Too much tucker"

#arts #photography #digitalart
a smoke image of a translucent smokey humanoid sitting and staring at their distended swirly stomach. the backgound is darkish mottled brown ... the figure in pinks, pale pinks and blues, with violet hair.
January 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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"Always"

A smoke image that speaks to #invasionday using the colours of the Aboriginal flag, a rose - is there anything more English?
#alwayswasallwayswillbe #changethedate #australiaday
square image of a yellow rose on stem on a mainly black background with 3 indistinct red, head shaped figures
January 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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"Thus Quoth - the raven"
Raven standing on dock timber handrail overlaid witb some white bottle brush flowers with a brightly lit lake in the background
October 11, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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perception flys in the face of reality.
not all flys are grubby
grubified grungedand dirty version of image 2: this is the way we most often see 'em. A bush fly rests on a spiky bush giving me the eye. Flys don't only dine on the faeces they encounter but they love nectar too and so do some pollenating as well.
October 10, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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"Life, lean into it". :-)
August 9, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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"4 days"
The average time between the violent deaths of women at the hands of men here in Australia.
a dark image of a man's hands holding a lit candle preparing to snuff it out between index finger and thumb with 3 other already extenguished candles in the background
May 12, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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"Still standing"

Really enjoy #icm photography and the effects it can generate
a zoom intentional camera movement black and white image of a white grey dead tree central with a live tree trunk inth mid ground all backed by dense scrub. Overall the effect is to make the dead tree appear quite spooky
April 20, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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Superba fairy wrens, Jenny and John Wren in his winter attire. #birds
Female superb fairg wren closeup perched on a bush with dead blackberry branh male superb fairy wren in winter attire (no blue except for tail) standing on a weathered round treated pine fence rail adorned with barbed wire (beelzebarb is my preffered spelling ) just to be sure ... keep hoomans out
April 5, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Eurasian coot on golden pond #birds #autumn
closeup of the eurasian coot one red eye towards the viewer and floating on clear water pond with a clay bottom reflecting sunlight so the water appears as a light golden yellow
March 21, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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In shadows we trust.
Shadows know us.
an intentional camera movement inage of a foggy forest in black and white
March 14, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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Eastern Yellow Robin #birds
a yellow breast and bellied robin with grey head perched on a branch with a dense forest background after floofing its feathers the robin spies an insect (ant I think) and peers down at it. It did not end well for the ant
March 7, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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"Tipping Point"

A WIP

#noplanetb #anthropocene #macrophotgraphy
a drop of water that looks suspiciously like earth from space sits on the tip of a petal against a dark background
February 29, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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"The Thornbill conspiracy" #birds
4 thornbills - tiny muted brown birds in a gree shrub appear to be in conference all observed by a male superb fairy wren. The thornbill facing the camera looks suspiciously over the shoulder of a coconspirator
February 21, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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"Curator's Nightmare"

Whar not to prsent when submitting a work fir hanging .

#SciArt
a black and white view of the rear of a small canvas that has been poorly prepared for hanging with screws central on the stretcher frame, wire twisted and way to long, nasty sharp wire ends ready to cut an errant finger, blood stains (from the curator) and various information name, phone, title scrawled on the canvas including the hanging direction(s).
February 21, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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"Anthroposcene" (not a typo)
#sciart

One of the things I do occasionally is make a comment on the state of the world environmentally speaking.
a composite image with several sections ... from the botom - the first is a silhoutte of a dead tree against a blurry treeline against a sunset orange pink. Reminescent of bushfire. The middle section is an image of a blue myshroom cap (mycena interrupta) that has a striking resembkance to earth viewd from space clouds and all. The tip section is armageddon orange and purple to near black texture tgaf gives the imoression of clouds
February 10, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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Great Crested Grebe
#birds
male with snall fish en beak swimming to clutch Grebeling eats fish proffered by male while a sibling perched on the females back looks on jealously 3 grebe chicks ride on the females back while she swims amongsf the reeds female snuggles the chicks on her back
February 8, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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it doesn't matter how good conditions are, if your attitude is arse about teat
two dimly lit dandelion clocks one standing upright with its seed in some wet sand the other top down with its seed in the air. both have tiny waterdrops on them
January 29, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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"Life is like a bowl of pink lemonade ... until you lose you wings" #sciart
a compiste image with a pair of cicada wings appearing to sink in a pinkish carbonated liquid with what appears to be bubbles floating off gem and a crust mudsy benthis which is actually he insude of a mollusc shell
January 22, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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Winging it
4 cicada wings arranged on glass plate sprayed with water droplets refracting thebackground whike the we wings do the same
January 19, 2024 at 9:36 PM