Hey, sorry for going awol recently & thanks for checking in 🧡 Seems the run of real life challenges continues & things have been really tough for some of my loved ones. I’m feeling overwhelmingly sad & powerless so might be a bit quieter on here than usual. Hope you’re all doing well Take care 🤍 x
Paula ⚪️
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Artist Celebrating the magical mundane✨ Art. Photographs. Walking. Noticing. Puddle botherer ⚪️ Cloud watcher Northern. Ally. Woke.
Schönen Sonntag, happy Sunday 🌸 Wiesenraute (Thalictrum) #FlowersOnSunday #Bloomscrolling #thelittlethings #Stunday #ECK
Tip, tap. Soft as fog rising on the moor, mizzle glittered through sleeping hours. It's gauze at dawn softly pan-piped by the wood pigeon; other wings awed and still. Now the willow speaks in jingling green smiles as water spools delicately over the run-off once more. With love, rain. #DailyNature
Morning all. Photographer Bruce Davidson. Couple on Beach, Brighton, 1960.
Blimey, I’d forgotten I had another bonus anniversary today...
It’s 25 July, so... yes, that’s right! It’s the 338th anniversary of the first Ferry Fair at South Queensferry on the Firth of Forth, an event traditionally preceded by the Burryman’s Parade – in which a man covered with burrs walks through the town. With some difficulty, it must be said
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) Cat, Seen From Above, 1926 gelatin silver print 23.4 x 17.5 cm Metropolitan Museum, New York #Caturday 🐈⬛📷
A bit of gardening this morning, more a tidy of the parched plants. Rain forecast for 12o’clock….
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Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (Garden Birds, 1967)
Shake The Dirt Off Of My Feet (new song) DIY music. Probably best with headphones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VpA...
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I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
Photo of a drawing from an exhibition by Norman Ackroyd at the Victoria Gallery, Bath, until September 2026 🥰🖼️ www.victoriagal.org.uk/event/norman...
Alan Bennett was in Herman's Hermits. 'No milk today, mother's gone away, she got a bus to Filey, with a man from C&A.'
It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
Three high Zenit 3M Industar-50 50mm f/3.5 Kodak Gold 200 #shittycamerachallenge #filmphotography #believeinfilm #35mmfilm #MadeinUSSR
I’ve a little park at the back of my house and some lads have been having a kickabout all afternoon. The volume suddenly got fairly raucous and I looked over to see one of the Dads had rolled up and is reliving the spirit of Brian Glover in Kes. Absolute scenes! 😆 #CompetitiveDad
A few more photos here taken during my time in the retained service which hopefully give a bit of a sense of these incidents. refrakt.app/series/in-th...
A series by Jon Vernon — Refrakt
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The current spate of wildfires across the country and the tinder-dry state of Dartmoor has made me reflect on some of the incidents I attended. No exaggeration to say that some wildfires were amongst the most physically draining and dangerous jobs I turned out to in the 7 years I was on the run...