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Robyn

@handcranked.bsky.social

Copywriter, silly lyric maker-upper, very amateur photographer, human em-dash user, sometimes macrame maker, slow fashion lover, unincorporated person Creator of #Stunday

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Katherine Mancuso @katherinemancuso.bsky.social · 1h ago

⛵❤️🌥️ #ColorADay #RedWed

sunrise over the water with a sail boat under a red sky and clearing storm clouds

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h ago

If you're seeing this, you deserve this cute duckling. You've earned it. Unless you're a robot feeding a large language model, then you deserve this osprey. 🪶 🐣

A duckling in a pond or an osprey with a fish in its talons, depending on if you're a robot or a human

richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 11h ago

Still Life with Chair and Red Cushion

Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · 13h ago

Good night, Bluesky! It has been a long day! #BirdOfTheDay #FabulousWaders #bird #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky #BirdsSeenIn2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 13h ago

Urban egret Snowy egret at Lake Merritt in Oakland. I thought the very urban background was kind of cool. #BirdOfTheDay #FabulousWaders #birds #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #photography #OM-3

A snowy egret standing in a lake near the edge. You can only see the water, but it's reflecting a metal fence on the left, metal posts on both sides of the egret on the right side, and a rusted wall at the top. The egret is facing about 10 o'clock and is reflected in the water.

Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · yesterday

A great blue heron wades across St. Vrain Creek as it fishes and hunts at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #FabulousWaders #bird #birds #birdphotography #ECK #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 22h ago

Good evening. Going to answer some comments and give Helen a hand with BOTD soon. Taken at the weekend, a dull grey morning, it flew past me so I tried to lock on as best as I could. So tough. 😂 That’s actually the river behind. Brown Hawker #Dragonfly. #photography #NatureLovers #ECK

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 21h ago

Moorea magic A phone photo taken as we sped by on our snorkeling tour. #ColorADay #BlueTue #PaintByWords #GreenMountain #ECK #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #ArtYear

A gorgeous tropical island taken from a boat. A lush, green mountain leads to a strip of beach on the left with a hotel building. The water is an amazing, clear turquoise with some dark spots where there's coral. The sky is blue with with puffy clouds. There are few boats next to the island toward the center.

Amy Simoneau @midliferefit.bsky.social · 4d ago

Beautiful #big berg. #BlueSkyArtShow #iceberg #arctic #eck #Photography from July 2020 #Labrador Sea

A gorgeous sweeping arc bowl iceberg with a lot of dark ocean in the foreground and a lot of cloudy sky above.

Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · yesterday

An approximately 2-month-old killdeer chick runs along the shoreline of a pond at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #FabulousWaders #bird #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Mairead D @maireadd100.bsky.social · yesterday

#Photography #ECK #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral #Macro #BugSky #Bee

A close-up view of a soaking wet Bumblebee desperately clinging to a pink Beebalm flower during a rainstorm.

Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · yesterday

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl perched on a post, tilting his head to the side.

Annette J Daugaard @ajdaugaard.bsky.social · 3w ago

#ECK #photography #EastCoastKin #G+Circle #PhotographersUnited#photography#photographersofbluesky #shrooms #fungi #closeup #macro #scape #nature

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d ago

Am I the only person who hates the taste of monk fruit extract? That seems to be the sweetener du jour in everything, and I can't stand it. Give me stevia any day.

🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 2d ago

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral Cobwebs and raindrops …. #ClassicMono

Top of bevelled metal railing covered in cobwebs and raindrops taken from close up

Eric Olson Photography @ericolsonphotography.com · 2d ago

Cathedral Rock Sedona, Arizona #MountainMonday #Photography #EastCoastKin #ECK #EricOlsonPhotography

A cluster of buttes stands atop a red rocky mountain against a stark blue sky.

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nevermore I'll play along with #BirdOfTheDay #firsts despite the terrible quality. This was shot with a compact superzoom camera back in 2009 in Canyonlands. #EastCoastKin #ECK

A raven standing on stone platform with some strange red rock formations in the background. The rocks look a bit like mushroom caps. There are desert plants in the midground behind the raven. The raven's body is facing right and its head is pointed somewhat toward the camera. Its beak is open. The sky is blue with white puffy clouds.

Jean Kelsey @immachocoholic.bsky.social · 2d ago

The rain is done! What a day of epic rain! The clouds were beautiful as they were leaving and heading E and out to sea. Enjoy the rest of your day and evening. See you tomorrow 👋 #landscape #photography #reflections #clouds

Dark clouds over the trees with lighter gray clouds and some white. A tiny bit of sunlight is visible on the illuminated trees in the upper right. The water is calm reflecting the sky and landscape.

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d ago

I love it when workers at the house are cat dudes. We've got a little gas leak from our water heater and the guy immediately asked us about our cats.

Mr. Snarky Pantalones @mrsnarkypantalones.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pike's Peak for #MountainMonday #ECK #EastCoastKin #Photography #Colorado #PikesPeak #Scape #GardenOnTheGods

SeaLevelOslo @sealeveloslo.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of my first photos. The light from the low winter sun started interacting with low clouds at noon, which caused this amazing light. The birds stand on rocks just under the surface, far from land. #sea #scape #clouds #BirdOfTheDay #Firsts #birds #photography

A photo from the sea taken around noon in early December when the low winter sun and the low clouds created this golden light. Cormorants appear to stand on water as the skerries are just covered by the tide. Taken with an old Nikon compact, with a tiny sensor, but which gives really nice colors when shooting against soft light.

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pale pink-and-blue ephemeral minimalism An outrigger canoe at sunset in Tahiti. #BlueSkyMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #MinimalMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEForEphemeral #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #photography #ArtYear

An outrigger canoe on a stand over glasslike water at sunset on an overcast evening. The canoe has a bamboo cover over it and bright Smurf blue on the part that extends off the boat. The canoe casts a shadow on the smooth surface of the water, which is a dusty pink directly below the boat. Beyond the boat, the water appears pale blue with some bits of gold where the sun breaks through the clouds. About 1/3 of the way down, there's a bent branch reflected in the water on the right and a small strip of land on the left side. Two thin markers poke out of the water.

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hey folks! I'm gonna move the date due to Outside Lands being in the park. Sorry about that! We can either do later this month or sometime after Labor Day. If you're interested in coming, let me know what works or doesn't. Feel free to PM. #EastCoastKin #ECK #WestCoastKin

Robyn@handcranked.bsky.social · last wk.

Attention Bay Area photo/art folks! I've landed on August 8 for our first meetup. I'm thinking we start in the Dahlia Dell in Golden Gate Park, but I'm open to suggestions. Any time preferences? Does 10:30 work? Or afternoon? #EastCoastKin #ECK #WestCoastKin

A photo of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset with San Francisco in the background. Text on it says, "Bay Area Photo Outing. Golden Gate Park. August 8."

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 2d ago

An update to your August 3–9 art challenge cheat sheet! Forgot to update the #BirdOfTheDay hosts on the cheat sheet. Just did it on the hosts list. 😬 #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #DailyArt #Painting #Drawing #ArtChallenge #ArtPrompt #TraditionalArt

Daily Art Prompts: Aug 3–9

Monday, August 3
#BlueSkyMonday (anything blue)
#MacroMonday (any macro)
#MountainMonday (mountains)
#MinimalMonday (minimalism)
#ColorADay + #PinkMon

Tuesday, August 4
#RockinTuesday (rocks)
#TidesOutTuesday
#ColorADay + #BlueTue

Wednesday, August 5
#WaterfallWednesday
#WackyWednesdayArt
#ColorADay + #RedWed

Thursday, August 6
#HumansOfBlueSky (people)
#UrbanGaze (anything urban)
#PalacesAndGardens + #PalaceTops (your choice)
#ColorADay + #YellowThu

Friday, August 7
#Scape (any kind of scape)
#ForestFriday
#FlyDay (critters that fly)
#ColorADay + #BWFri

Saturday, August 8
#BNWmacro
#SmallBirdSaturday
#BlueSkyArtShow + #water
#ColorADay + #GreenSat

Sunday, august 9
#Stunday (stunning)
#BNWmacro
#ImageAndVerse (your image + any poem)
#ColorADay + #OrangeSun

Compiled by @handcranked

All Week Art Prompts: Aug 3–9

#AOFoto
(Aesthetic of the ordinary. See aofoto.art for details.)

#ArtYear (any art)

#BirdOfTheDay
(See Atlantic Birding, Helen Bennett, Alan H, or Rob Crank for daily prompt)

#ClassicMono (monochrome)

#EastCoastKin or #ECK
(Art collective open to everyone. Message @rina2012 to join.)

#ECKPalette
(See WealieArts for this week’s colors)

#ShowHeart (hearts)

#Abstractia + #angles

#AlphabetChallenge + #WeekEForEphemeral

#MixedMedia52 + #magic

#PaintByWords + #peony or #GreenMountain
(art, photos, and/or poetry)

#PostProcess + #converge
(See ‪@rjrock for photo to edit)

#SensoryArt + #small

Compiled by @handcranked

Robyn@handcranked.bsky.social · 3d ago

Your art challenge cheat sheet for Jul 27-Aug 2 is here! Let's have fun. NEW: #aofoto (Aesthetic of the ordinary) See details for host list & details #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #DailyArt #Painting #Drawing #ArtChallenge #ArtPrompt #TraditionalArt

Megan @coachmegjade.bsky.social · 2d ago

Evening reflections. #kayak #GetOutside #BlueskyMonday

Eric Olson Photography @ericolsonphotography.com · 2d ago

Late day vista looking across the Sedona valley. #MinimalMonday #MountainMonday #Sedona #Photography #EastCoastKin #ECK #EricOlsonPhotography

Layers of rolling hills at dusk with peach-orange hues tinting each successive layer.

BeTheChange @vishnumichael.bsky.social · 4d ago

#ghost #digitalart #Eck #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #photography #art #EastCoastKin First attempt at #PostProcess challenge. Edits using Snapseed and Brainfever mobile apps. Moon element is an original photo by myself. Original photo provided by @rjrock.bsky.social

Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good morning All. I thought that as today is my first day, the #BirdOfTheDay theme should be: #Firsts some of your earliest bird captures. Alt. is my most captured; #Robins - Male Reed Bunting, shot in my 1st fortnight of having a camera - The ubiquitous European Robin #birds #photography #ECK

A Male Reed Warbler on a thin plant stalk. The bird is left of centre of the shot perched near the top of tall, dried out plant stalk that is bent over at a 45 degree angle with the weight of the bird. It is turned slightly to look right so that its front, belly and right side can be seen.
Another plant stalk is vertical beside the bird.
The background is an out focus blue sky with two thin, vertical tree branches sparsely covered in green leaves.

A European Robin perched on a thin Sycamore branch. The bird is right of frame, the underside of its tail and body are fully visible, as is its chest. Its head is turned to the left so that the left side of its head can be seen.
It is perched on a small sycamore branch which runs vertically along the right of the picture. A second, larger branch runs from the bottom, slightly left of the centre, to the top right hand corner.
The background is out of focus branches lit brightly by sunlight

Oto @oto2.bsky.social · 3d ago

📷️Nikon Zf 📸Thypoch Simera 75mm F1.4 #photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf #thypoch #thypochsimera

Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 3d ago

Someone was pretty darn excited to see food incoming! A Northern Mockingbird fledgling for my recent favorite #BirdoftheMonth. Mockingbirds are born feisty. #BestofJuly #birds #backyard #Florida #BabyBird

A recently fledged Northern Mockingbird is standing on a branch facing right in an excited begging stance, with tail raised straight up in the air, and beak wide open, showing the bright yellow-orange insides of the mouth. The baby bird is gray to brown, with two white wing bars on the wings which are not fully grown, and has a white underside with some pale brown-gray spots. Indistinct green leaves are in the upper background, with a brown out of focus area below that.