Graeme Boyd
@graemeboyd.bsky.social
Scot living in Lincs, UK. Artist. Pigeon aficionado. National Peristeronic society member. https://dookit.forumotion.com/h41-graemeboydart
Photo showing the size difference between the Italian Triganini (left) and it's descendant, the English Modena. By 1327 the city of Modena in Italy had codified and regulated the flying "sport", where rival flocks captured individuals from each. The German Modena is also descended from the Triganino
This is the same pigeon, photographed after consecutive moults. This is the effect of the Stipper modifier. All of the alleles at this locus have this effect, gradually returning to wild type pigmentation.This is a sex-linked modifier, all of these alleles are dominant to wild-type. #pigeonsky
Something has gone wrong with the world though. Military-industrial complex aside. Forgetting corruption in politics for the moment. Throwing stones at ducklings? Really?
Being as it is St Swithin's day today. I post this a lot, I know. Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt painted this sometime between 1866-75. His sister began the work but abandoned it and Hunt completed it. I think it's awesome. "The Festival of St Swithin" #pigeonsky
This Standard rose at my front door, I think the variety is "Birthday Girl", was quite sparse and falling over when I first moved in about 5 years ago. I strapped it to a support and got rid of the ants, pruned it quite hard for the first three years. It looked good last year and I didn't prune it.
Sculpture by Liliane Yauner, Noah and the dove. Displayed at St Bartholomew church in Orford, Suffolk. #pigeonsky
"An English Autumn Afternoon" by Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown including a dovecote and pigeons. #pigeonsky
Blue bar Gorguero, one of the varieties of the Palomas de la raza Buchones. Gouache on paper, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky
Valencian Figurita, considered one of the smallest domestic pigeon varieties. Pyrography on wood, Graeme Boyd #pigeonsky
