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Steve Batch
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Amateur photographer focused on our natural world, mainly macro trying to capture the beauty in the small stuff that we often overlook. bit.ly/FlickrSB

Born at 317ppm - it was 423ppm on 10 Nov 2024 when I joined Bluesky and is now 430.92 ppm 11 May 2025!
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Raindrops on blue Pansy petals also featuring my silhouette in many of the raindrops😀

#ColorADay #BlueTue #Raindrops #Flowers #BloomScrolling
Raindrops some large some small on blue Pansy petals that have been folded over by the weight of the water. My silhouette is visble in many of the raindrops.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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I joined BlueSky on this date last year and I absolutely love being here.

THANK YOU to the creators and maintainers of Bluesky, to those who follow me, those who like, comment on and/or repost my images and to those I follow your images, poems and words are a daily inspiration to me #BlueSKyMonday
This Monday morning I was glad to see blue sky with a scattering of white fluffy clouds above a silhoueted treeline very appropriate on nthe day I wanted to say thanks for a most marvellous year on BlueSky
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Pink Cyclamen flowers
#ColorADay #PinkMon #FLowers #BloomScrolling
A small set of pink cyclamen flowers that are beaded with raindrops. The Corolla tubes and Auricles are red as are the flower stems while the Corola lobes(petals) are pink.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Christmas Cactus
#MacroMonday #Macro #MacroPhotography #Flowers #BloomScrolling #ColorADay hint of #PinkMon
A mainly white Christmas Cactus flower with hints of pink around the centre of the flower. The Stigma and Style are red, the filaments are white and the anthers yellow.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Spider silk scaffolding
#bnwmacro #blackandwhitemacro #ClassicMono #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday
A grass stem that has arched over and has four hanging grass seed stems arranged along its length all covered in a scaffolding of dew laden spider silk.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Lily
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Stunday #Macro #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday
Close up detail from an orange lily showing 6 anthers and the stigma against a background of de focused orange petals. The majority of the image is out of focus, only two orange anthers in the foreground are in focus with the remaining four out of focus in the background. The filaments of the two anthers are partly in focus as is the top of the Stigma and Style. The image has had the lightest post processing with only the shadows lifted everything else is as shot with my Olympus OM-1 and M.Zuiko 90mm macro lens.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Silvery water drops.
#bnwmacro #blackandwhitemacro #ClassicMono #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #Abstract
Water drops lying on clingfilm that is wrapped around a new white PVC window cill in our garden captured in low light with a shallow depth of field and processed to black and white resulting in a silvery look to the water drops. The image was captured at an angle that runs from high high on the left to low on the right at approximately 30 degrees. The water drops in the fore and back groud are out of focus leaving a few across the middle of the image that are in focus.
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Wispy clouds in the early morning sky over Taskers Meadow Warwickshire.
#Scape #Sky #Clouds #SunriseSky
Thin low clouds form a band across the sky above the treeline at Taskers Meadow Warwickshire on the 30th of October 2025. The clouds are tinged with pink with blue sky above and pale yellow just above the treeline. In front of the band of clouds another set of wispy pink clouds form wispy streaks across the sky as though blown by winds from right to left with each wisp curling up at its left hand end as it dissipates and fades from view as though is has been caught in an updraft.
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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How much is that doggie in the pushchair?
#HumansOfBlueSky
Observed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the 30th of Maerch 2025. Two elderly men are seeted in a square smoking cigars, a dashhound is sitting in blue pushchrair in front of themwhich has been adapted so that its head is outside the feet end of the pushchair behind a sheet of curved plastic.
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Autumn Buttercups blooming observed at Taskers Meadow, Warwickshire on the 30th October 2025 during an early morning bimble. In an optherwise green meadow it was nice to see these cheerful flowers.

#ColorADay #YellowThu #BloomScrolling #Flowers #WildFlowers #WldFlowerHour
Single dew covered Buttercup flower with a second out of focus flower in the background Three Buttercup flowers on a single stem the bottom and top flowers are out of focus and the middle flower is in focus and covered in dew, faint spider silk strands are also visible.
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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An orange rose for #RoseWednesday #Roses #Flowers #BloomScrolling
An open orange rose from our garden on the 30th Spetember 2025
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Stanage Edge
#RockinTuesday #PeakDistrict
Image from October 6th 2021 looking up at the fissured Gritstone rocks of Stanage Edge in the Peak Districk under a blue sky with one elongated wispy white cloud above the cliff edge. Angular fallen boulders lie in the foreground amongst the bracken and grasses.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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This used to be a four trunk tree but one of the trunks has fallen leaving the remaining three to stand watch.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees
Image shows three trunks all joined at the base on the left and covering the centre of the image with a fourth trunk laying down on the woodland floor with the trunk exiting the image at 3 o'clock.The roots of the fallen trunk look back to the three remaining trunks and it seemed to me that they may be standing watch over their fellow fallen trunk.
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Sentinels
#Macro #MacroMonday #TheMatrix

The parachute seeds opn the old flower stem reminded me of the sentinel machine sin thematrix.
A curled over flower seedhead held by spidersilk adorned with parachute seeds that for me were reminescent of the Sentinels in the Matrix films.
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Pink Chrysanthemums
#ColorADay #PinkMon #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Macro #MacroMonday #Chrysanthemums
Image shows a group of rain flecked Pink Chrysanthemums. Image shows a single partially pink Chrysanthemum with raindrops visible on some of the petals.
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Blue sky and Pampas grass
#BlueSkyMonday #Blue #Pampas
Image shows Pampas Grass plumes against a blue sky - image captured on the 2nd of November 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Vine tendril
#BNWMacro #Macro #MacroPhotography #MacroHour #MacroPix #BNW #Monochrome #OM-1 #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #MacroMonday #Nature #bnwmacro #SmallThings #ColorADay #BWFri
A vine tendril that has curled around on itself having nothing to cling to.
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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A red admiral butterfly on yellow chrysanthemums. I took this photo yesterday the 1st of November on my phone at a local Garden Nursery it was such a surprise to see a butterfly this late in the year.

#Stunday #Butterflies #ColorADay #YellowThu #FLowers #Bloomscrolling
A red Admiral butterfly viewed from above as it feeds on yellow Chrysanthemum flowers.
November 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Autumn leaves
#BNWmacro #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #macrohour #bnwmacro #photography #classicmono #Macro #MacroMonday #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn
Two leaves at the end of a twig one showing us the upperside of the theaf and the other the underside of the leaf. The vein structure is clearly visible in both leaves and more pronounced on the uderside of the leaf.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Autumn hedgerow fruit
#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn
Amultiple exposure image consisting of four images: autumn leaves, Hawthorn berries, Rosehips and Sloes.
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Out and about for an early morning bimble with the four legged walking coach and was early enough to witness this sky over Tasksers Meadow, #Warwickshire
#Dawn #Clouds #Scape #StunDay
View across Taskers Meadow cropped to just show the silhouette of the treeline and the varigated sky above where the altocumulus clouds reflect the oranges and yellows just above the treeline .
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Berwick Upon Tweed
#UrbanGaze #Scape
Looking across the River Tweed to some of the houses on the north bank of the river where a mix of old and new dwellings can be seen.
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Not only is it #RoseWednesday it is also #ColorADay #RedWed 😀 #Roses #Flowersm#BloomScrolling
A single red partially open rose bloom.
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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It is of course Wednesday and for me more importantly it is #RoseWednesday We are now in autumn and the number of roses in bllom is declining swiftly - we may see a few over winter depending on the weather so my contributions may slow down.

#Roses #Flowers #BloomScrolling
Slightly dreamy soft focused single white rose bloom from the 11th of October 2025 Another view of this slightly dreamy soft focused single white rose bloom from the 11th of October 2025
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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We can only imagine the trees that used to stand where these two stumps now stand, grave stone sentinels marking the passing of the trees. #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Woods
Two moss covered stumps are all that remain of q=what must have been two large thick trunk trees. The stump in the foreground has some fi=ungi growing on it in amongst the moss.
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM