Captured by photographer masa5901, Moon and Venus on the Sea of Blue Velvet presents a serene nocturnal landscape along Japan’s rugged coastline.
Martin Glew
@mdglew.bsky.social
English teacher in Czechia, with recent interlude of Air Pollution modelling in Czechia. Before that UKMO. Taking the leap hasn't always worked for me
Happy 12th anniversary of the day Kim Jong Un visited the lube factory.
Another architectural detail from the flagship Daimaru Shinsaibashi store in Osaka, Japan, part 2 of 3
Cupola of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin, Italian Baroque masterpiece, built 1668-1694, designed by Guarino Guarini, architect, mathematician & priest (1624-1683), known for his use of complex geometry & innovative structural engineering techniques.
St Engan’s Church, Llanengan in North Wales was built around 1520. However, the screens are thought to have come from Cymer Abbey in Gwynedd which was founded in 1198 for a group of Cistercian monks from Abbey Cwmhir in Powys. #MedievalMonday
Rice Terraces in Yamakoshi-Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. Photography by arere on photohito
#Firsts #BirdOfTheDay These are the first birds on my phone, taken on the 4th of July 2014 when I joined a sensory photography group. Although I've loved taking photos since a child, it was when I started loving #photography and taking photos of reflections, shadows and wildlife. #BlindLife #Blind
My Precious!
Patrick Kapty@patrickkapty.bsky.social · 3d agoDagger of Princess Ita daughter of Pharaoh Amenemhat gold, bronze, lapis lazuli, carnelian, amazonite c. 1900 BCE Egypt #handmade #dagger #gold #bronze #lapislazuli #carnelian #amazonite #PrincessIta #amenemhat #c1900BCE #ancientegypt #ancientart #craft #ancientweapons #ceremonial #ritual #art
Summer Jane (British Artist, dob not listed) "Composure", 2024. Palette Knife Acrylic Painting, 70 × 90 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Sacred harmony: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Golden Age architectural painter & draughtsman (1597-1665); pioneer of ‘church portraits’, whose subtle, tonal compositions foreshadow abstract modernism. St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
A totally gorgeous little staircase, and panelling, up to the gallery in the Church of St. Leonard, Old Warden, Bedfordshire 😍
Barefoot to school, Corleaghan National School. Clogher, County Tyrone, Ireland, early 20th century, photo by Rose Shaw.
Both a dog and a cat have spotted you from inside Samuel van Hoogstraten's amazing View Down a Corridor, 1662. Not to mention the parrot in its cage! But the people are oblivious.
‘Swifts, swallows and Canada geese’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe What to Look for in Summer, 1960
Rukiye Garip (Turkish, b.1964) Untitled, 2026 Watercolor 30 x 22 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Traditional rice caldron, Japan. Photography by toshimo on Flickr.
Nun on a lawnmower, Ty Mawr Convent, Monmouth, south Wales, 1979, photo by Kevin O'Farrell, Irish photographer.
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” — Anna Quindlen *** Codrington Library at All Souls College in Oxford
