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Steve Palmer @stevepalmer.photography · Jan 16
Very happy to have been informed my image "Fishing for Breakfast" is to be included in the British Wildlife Photography Awards Collection 13 book. Will have to wait till March to see if I've won or been commended but just getting in the book is incredible. #BWPA 📷📷📷
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#ShareMondays2025

Another great week of very strong images of various types & subjects. My top 4 has changed frequently this last few hours. But these are the ones I settled on.......winner later!!

@iceniphoto.bsky.social
@sophiecarr.bsky.social
@markhether18.bsky.social
@z70photo.bsky.social
Considering it's the middle of November, it's wonderful to see such vibrant colour and life in the beautiful flowers. It's a riot of reds of all descriptions, with such graceful tones and shapes. A joy to behold! A glorious abstract of one of the many Icelandic river estuaries. The wonderful shapes, patterns and colours are emphasised by the darker areas which give a natural frame to the scene. It has a fantasy, surreal element to it which gives it such intrigue. A elegant sunset from Assynt. A strong composition with beautiful late light warming the foreground rocks; the waves and lower rocks gently curve round providing a lovely lead to the lighthouse. The image is then balaced so well with the distant clouds and setting sun. Quite a chaotic scene for a portrait.....there's a lot going on with the grooming, the colours, the ropes & chains....but at the centre and beautifully framed by the chaos, is the bull. I wonder what he/she is thinking.....what's going on? What am I doing? Will I win? Fortunately it doesn't seem to be bothering him/her!
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Soooooo… My favourite entry and winner of this week’s #sharemondays2025 is @mickh5.bsky.social with this amazing backlit woodland scene. I love the contrast and shapes he has captured here. It reminds me of one of those scratch off art pads! Stunning 🤩. Congratulations Mick 🙌👌
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Hi all. I will post a winner a bit later but for now, here are my top 4 #sharemondays2025 images for this week 🙌👍. Beautiful work 🤩 @petrovious.bsky.social @znabal.bsky.social @mickh5.bsky.social @paulgsphotos.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Drum Roll 🥁
This weeks #sharemondays2025 winner is the fabulous 'Tangled' by @stubanksphoto.bsky.social
I love the Autumn colours and intricate twisted, moss-covered tree branches in this image. This mix creates a striking contrast, capturing the beauty and complexity of Autumn.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This weeks top 4 are in for #sharemondays2025
Well done to @sophiecarr.bsky.social @supergios.bsky.social @z70photo.bsky.social and @stubanksphoto.bsky.social
Check back tomorrow for the winner
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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sarahlonges.bsky.social Sarah Longes @sarahlonges.bsky.social · 15d
Firework Foliage #ShareMonday2025

WARNING‼️ NO WILDLIFE IN THIS IMAGE 😂 Not like me at all but, this week I was mostly entranced by #autumnal #acers in #BushyPark #WoodlandGardens 🍁🍂 @theroyalparks.bsky.social @sheclicksnet.bsky.social #nature #trees #autumncolours #fujifilm_uk #fujifilm_x_series
This landscape aspect image is a study of acer tree leaves turning autumnal, with a deep orange, blurred backdrop of swamp cypress leaves. Swamp cypress where introduced to the UK in the 17th century and are one of only a few conifers that are deciduous, the feathery leaves turning orange or russet-red in autumn, dropping them in the winter. The left side of the image is predominantly green and the right side is predominantly deep orange. The leaves of the acer tree, which have seven pointed lobes, are largest and in sharp focus in the centre and the left side. They have a mix of colours from rich forest green, paling to lime green, yellow, orange, red and hints of purple. Between the foreground leaves and the orange background are partially blurred acer leaves hanging down from the other side of the tree's canopy. They are mostly green and yellow, seemingly floating in the air like polka dots against the orange background on the righthand side.
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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#sharemondays2025 This is my selection for winning image this week. It was a close run thing as ever, but I feel it has everything I like in an image. Great work Mark, well done 👍
markhether18.bsky.social Mark Hetherington @markhether18.bsky.social · 22d
EPIC MALIN HEAD

What a view at sunset from Malin Head in Donegal, Ireland. Epic, although over-used in Landscape Photography is very apt here.
#malinhead #donegal #landscapephotography #fsprintmonday #sharemondays2025 @fotospeed.bsky.social @sonyalpha.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I've been drawn to vibrant scenes and colours this week. As always a difficult choice to narrow down to four, but here they are for this week.

@supergios.bsky.social
@graemetaplin.bsky.social
@markhether18.bsky.social
@z70photo.bsky.social

Winner later 😊
A beautiful early autumn morning shot of a park bench. Obviously it's much more than that with the wonderful colours & the sunburst just positioned perfectly on the inner edge of the tree. It's a really strong composition with the bench framed perfectly by the surrounding trees and branches. I can almost hear the gentle rustle of the carpet of russet leaves. I certainly want to walk through them kicking them far and wide as I go! A sad but striking image of a delapidated building with many beautiful features. The colours compliment each other so very well and then there's the stark contrast bewteen the graffiti and the beautiful ornate stonework around the windows. The man walking through the scene just finishes it off nicely. There are lots of unanswered questions which adds to the intrigue. A superb wide angle, slow shutter coastal image. The colour wheel has been utilised extremely well here; providing excellent colours and tones throughout. A beautifully composed well balanced image which has a sense of drama and calming in equal measure. A disturbing yet fun image of a pumpkin "scarecrow". A wonderful close up shot showing some strong colours, details and textures. Someone has obviously taken a good while creating and assembling this, but it has been so well captured and just makes me smile!
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Come on, its a fabulous collection of work of very talented photographers.

Help share their work at only £7.99 and available world wide.

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dylannardini.com Dylan Nardini @dylannardini.com · Oct 13
Collection 8

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Get you copy here and help share their work.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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My #ShareMondays2025 winner this week is this wonderful creative piece from Mick. I’ve been enjoying his allotment polytunnel series greatly and I think this is my absolute favourite so far 😍 Art is found everywhere!Beautifully observed, captured and presented 👏🏻 Over to you for next week 😁
mickh5.bsky.social Mick Houghton @mickh5.bsky.social · 29d
An afternoon wander through the allotment. Autumn is really taking hold inside the polytunnel.

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#dahlia
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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My #ShareMondays2025 Top 4 this week (with some assistance from my mum when I got stuck on several 🤭) are:

Colin @ckphotography.bsky.social
Jonny @supergios.bsky.social
Graeme @graemetaplin.bsky.social
Mick @mickh5.bsky.social

Well done everyone for making me struggle 🤭👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love this tender moment as a red deer hind lowers her head to groom the ear of her offspring. It shows just how late some of the red deer births were this year! It has surprised me to see as many young fawns among the hinds in my local area. Great to see the frost and dew whitening the habitat too. You could almost believe that it was a smattering of snow melting into the muted greens and bracken-brown of the ground. A picture of Autumn that is a beautiful contrast to bold colours or the bellowing stags 😊 A dreamy cloud inversion in the Lake District taken from the summit of Helvellyn at sunrise. What strikes me the most is the alternating layers of red and blue created by shadowed cloud seen from above and the first light bouncing brightly from the peaks of the hills! A few pink tones to the sky and the waterfall effect of clouds spilling between the peaks, links the warm and cool together beautifully. It’s often hard to get a dynamic image from an overcast sunrise, but Graeme has used the soft tones of blue/grey, peach and purple to great effect within his gentle seascape, with the centrally placed dark, industrial platform (now defunct) of Sizewell Nuclear Power Station and soft sweeping white horses, gently spilling onto the shore, leaving a foam upon the golden sand. The platforms were there to service the intake and discharge tunnels used to run sea water through the cooling system of the old power plant. Today they provide perches for seabirds 😊 This square composition depicting autumnal seed heads, and fading petals of plants, within a polytunnel at the allotment is so cleverly observed, captured and processed. The diagonally opposing subjects have a very graphic look, almost as if this is a work in progress by a botanical artist, the final, fine details of the structures yet to be completed. A faint horizontal line dividing the subjects could almost be a fold in a sheet of fine art paper! And the hazy effect given to areas of the subjects by the distance between them and the polythene actually reminds me of a favourite old process from in the darkroom, selective solarisation. So creative 😊
October 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Fox And Fungi #FoxOfTheDay

Great seeing all the #ShareMondays2025 entries 😁 Judging will be tough tomorrow!! A quick reminder, I've "liked" all the posts that showed up in my # search, so you'll know if I've seen yours. Info on my image in Alt text 🦊 @rbgkew.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
A panoramic landscape-aspect image of a young vixen called Star. She's earned her name from a small star-shaped white patch on her chest, just above her front legs. Her chest and underneath her body are quite a dark grey, almost totally black in places. This extends down her tail. There are white accents on her muzzle, the edge of her ears, the joints of her legs and a brighter white tip to her tail. The rest of her coat is a rusty-orange, peppered with grey. There's a slight kink in her tail at the moment from a muscle injury known as limber tail. This could have been caused by vigorous tail-wagging that foxes do as a greeting with each other, or during a tussle with one of the family members over their standing in group hierachy. Dis you know a group of foxes is known as a skulk? The etymology is from a Scandanavian word and refers to their stealthy movement. Anyway, back to the description! I have placed Star almost centrally to the composition. She is in profile with her tail in the left of image and her head is turned across her body so she is looking backwards to the left of the image. In the shadowed background of the late afternoon are slightly blurred trees with deep green foliage. In the top left corner a few golden leaves hanging from a closer tree seem to be almost floating in the air. On the right edge of the image is a the side of a gnarly old tree trunk with lots of detailed texture. Around the tip of Star's tail and in the foreground of her front legs are clumps honey fungus at different stages of maturity. Here's a description I found for honey fungus (Armillaria) mushrooms on the RHS website: The mushrooms are produced in dense clumps and are very variable in size and colour even within each species. The cap or stalk is often honey coloured, hence the common name of the fungus; otherwise the mushrooms are some shade of brown. A whitish collar-like ring is always present on the stem of pathogenic species, just below the gills.
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#Sharemondays2025

Minimum requested requirements for judges.

Please can you search the hashtag when you are ready to judge and click 'Latest'.

Please 'Like' EVERY entry for that week as you see them.

Pick/Post top 4 with # & tag. Comments in ALT (optional)

Post winner with # & Tag.

TY 🙏
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Thanks for your patience with #ShareMondays2025 I've just spent the morning at the dentist, but I'm back now! Final 4 chosen from a superb array of images. @lcflandscapedrone.bsky.social
@jude04.bsky.social
@sarahlonges.bsky.social
@ian-mcc.bsky.social
Winner announced around 4pm xx
I love this drone shot for the colours and patterns. I would never have recognised it as a park local to me! Mist and sheep, what a dreamy combination - and main subject placed on a left hand third - great composition! We all know Sarah's fabulous images of 'her' foxes in Bushy Park, but this one is exceptional in capturing the fox balancing on his hind legs - what is he looking at? Thanks for sharing this with us! Stunning image of a night scene at the barbers. It's like Edward Hopper meets Jack Vettriano, excellent and so well seen!
October 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Congratulations @sarahlonges.bsky.social - winner of this week's #ShareMondays2025 Thank you for sharing a special moment in time in the life of an inquisitive fox.👏👏👏
October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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sarahlonges.bsky.social
Very grateful to Geraldine for choosing Red the vixen as her winner for this week’s #ShareMondays2025 🙏🏻 And for seeing the story of an inquisitive and agile #fox 🦊 I’m looking forward to seeing everyone’s entries next Monday 😁 Have a great weekend all!
geraldinecurtis.bsky.social Geraldine Curtis @geraldinecurtis.bsky.social · Oct 17
Congratulations @sarahlonges.bsky.social - winner of this week's #ShareMondays2025 Thank you for sharing a special moment in time in the life of an inquisitive fox.👏👏👏
October 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Sorry folks I’m away for a few days without access to the internet. Will post winner on Friday. #ShareMondays2025 #soz
October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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With apologies for the delay, here are my final four for this weeks #sharemondays2025
Congratulations to
@geraldinecurtis.bsky.social
@oleadam.bsky.social
@dutchnewchurch.bsky.social
@ianbarnesphotos.bsky.social
I've put a few comments in the alt section
Decision tomorrow! (It will be tough!)
I love this still life with its careful arrangements and the little interplay of light on the right hand background. It's a really pleasing colour palette as well. Loving the colours and the movement in this: it makes for a very expressive portrait Captured at the perfect moment! A really direct and striking portrait I'm really enjoying this beautiful interplay of textures, shapes and light. It's a great colour palette too!
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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theworldofmattp.bsky.social
It's been a bit of a day today. So with apologies for those eagerly awaiting the judging, I will be announcing the #sharemondays2025 shortlist for this week on Wednesday
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My copies delivered. A great book, full of amazing photos. Many thanks to @dylannardini.com for putting this together for everyone, great work.

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October 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM