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Rob Ralley

@robralley.bsky.social

Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 21h ago

Penrhyn Nefyn under cloud this evening. 📷 #photography

A view across glistening wet sand and then an expanse of sea towards a headland with evening sun shining on its side and a low blanket of cloud across its top.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · yesterday

Bumblebee hunting through fading lavender flowers. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral 📷 #photography

A bumblebee (either a buff-tail or a white-tail, the tail is slightly concealed) on a lavender flower some of whose florets are fresh pale purple and others are drying out. The background is green with more lavender flowers out of focus.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Castell Harlech, view to Tremadog Bay. 📷 #photography

A doorway (with no door) in a massive thick stone castle wall, commanding a view of trees, green/brown grass, then sea and land beyond that, blue with distance.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sea view, Castell Cricieth. 📷 #photography

A ruined medieval castle wall of grey-brown stones covered in pale lichen, over the edge of a hill covered in dried-out grass, to an expanse of grey-blue sea and pale blue sky.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3d ago

Chancel. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark 📷 #photography

A view diagonally across the chancel of Ely Cathedral, with its various bits of furniture and apparatus (including floor-standing candlesticks and a small table with a cloth) and black and white tiled floor, towards a stained-glass window whose colours are shining on the stonework.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 4d ago

Seaside graveyard: Eglwys Sant Hywyn, Aberdaron. 📷 #photography

A view of graves at the edge of a churchyard, then behind them a metal railing and a view out to sea. There is a headland visible on the left and a white boat on the right, and evening sun is casting shadows of other funeral monuments across the scene. The tones are almost all gold and shades of brown on the ground, but blue for the sea and the sky with an expansive wisp of cloud.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 4d ago

Night walk, Ely. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark 📷 #photography

A night view of a curving suburban street lined with streetlights and with grass strips either side of the road. There are tall hedges and houses behind them, and the sky is dark blue.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ah, yes. This will do nicely. #scape 📷 #photography

A view of a bay ringed with low hills around sunset, with streaks of light and dark cloud running away across the sky. Downhill from the vantage point is a trio of white houses with slate roofs, and heading down to the beach is a series of stone and gravel steps though grass that turn a hairpin bend in the bottom right of the picture.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 6d ago

The West Tower and the moon. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark 📷 #photography

A view diagonally upwards towards the upper storey of Ely Cathedral's West Tower in late evening, with a tiny thin sliver of moon alongside it.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 6d ago

A winter dusk on West Walls, Carlisle. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography

A view along a narrow street just after dusk, with a low stone wall on the left and, on the right, buildings of variable height (the nearest one is a four-storey red brick pitched roof building with a white front that opens straight onto the street). Old-fashioned streetlamps are lit and a bare-branched tree is leaning into the picture over the wall on the left.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Aldeburgh sunset. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark 📷 #photography

A view along the beach and some of the seafront at Aldeburgh, the shingle and houses largely dark (with light reflecting on the windows), the sea visible as a narrow grey-blue wedge, and the sky a blend of gold and blue with pink clouds.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Wildflower lawn, warm summer evening. 📷 #photography

The right side of a yellow-brick bungalow with a six-foot tall wooden fence and gate beside it and other houses, two-storey, in the background at an angle. In front is a sun-dried lawn of long grass and yellow wildflowers. The sun is low in the sky and the shadows are nearly horizontal; the uPVC on the houses is gleaming in the light. There is grey but unthreatening cloud in the sky with blue visible round the edges.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · last wk.

The, uh, wine-dark sea. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark 📷 #photography

A view down to dark sea, rippling and lit from the side.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Sunset at the edge of town. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark 📷 #photography

A view from under a tree across the right hand side of a roundabout to a filling station's green glowing sign, a van and a car, all bathed in an orangey light that is also reflected in the edge of a puddle on the road and shining slightly on the tarmac.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Sunlight through leaves. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves 📷 #photography

A close-up view of four leaves on a thin stalk against a green background, with sunlight shining through them (though they are partly casting each other in shadow). The light is bright and shows up the veins on the leaves.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

I encountered this beautiful Red Admiral on a walk this evening - it amused itself by settling on my finger on my camera's shutter release before posing on a nearby tree 📷 #photography

A Red Admiral butterfly on a leaf against a green background, getting ready to fly off.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Summer evening wine. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves and #BlueskyArtShow #glass 📷 #photography

A wine glass with a little white wine in it, on a table with the curve of another glass's rim near it. There is a chiminea behind it and the wine is glowing with reflected light from the fire.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Driveway. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves #scape 📷 #photography

A curving driveway of two parallel gravelled wheel-ruts through closely cut grass, curving into the picture from the bottom left, then off to the left again further off. There are shrubs and trees on either side, and in the distance a low grassy hill with low, pale-coloured farm buildings under a blue evening sky with jagged shards of cloud across it.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bench under the Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge. #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono 📷 #photography

A straight-on view up three wide steps to a paved area under a raised building with a concrete floor, with a rather minimalist-looking bench, and beyond that in the background a boxy building of concrete and glass.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Topiary. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves 📷 #photography

A close-up view of clipped yew topiary, the junction between two roundish sections, one above the other, so that a little grey sky is visible on either side. The lower section has three further lines clipped into it, two of them forming a curving inverted V.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

A bit of Carlisle Cathedral for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves and #WallsOnWednesday 📷 #photography

An external wall of Carlisle Cathedral in red sandstone between two buttresses, with a three-light window at the top, then a similar pattern in the stone below but with no holes for glass, and below that a pair of arches, the left one wider than the right, again simply in the wall with no openings; the left archway has a former arch-topped opening underneath it that has been walled up. There is bright sun casting shadows on the wall.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Field on the edge of town. 📷 #photography

Wide angle picture of a golden field not yet harvested, with faint tracks through it towards trees in the distance. It is a summer's evening and the sky is blue with a few grey clouds stretched across near the horizon.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bridge. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves 📷 #photography

View from below of the sweeping curve where a ramp for cyclists and pedestrians turns to meet a bridge over the river Ouse. There is brightly coloured graffiti on the concrete supports. It is on a rough grassy bank with a rough winter sky of very pale blue and thin clouds.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Railing and reflection. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCurves #ClassicMono 📷 #photography

The corner of a water mill and the water that drives it, with an elaborate-looking arrangement of bits of railing and a quarter-circle of spikes presumably designed to stop anything or anyone falling into the mechanism. They are reflected in the water. The water is edged with brick and there is a fence and a field beyond.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Late walk, Ely. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind 📷 #photography

Two boys in white T-shirts walking away along a street on a summer's evening. Beside them, in near darkness, is a wall and a tree, and beyond that, Ely Cathedral, and the figures, a vertical band of the wall and the cathedral's Octagon are all caught in golden sunlight shining from the left.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Arrival. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind 📷 #photography

An elderly couple dressed for a warm day have just arrived on a flat shingle beach and are looking out across it, with a long narrow bar of sand running across the picture just a few metres into the sea, and a headland visible in the distance. The sky is blue and the sun is nearly overhead.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Seaside bench. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind 📷 #photography

View from behind a park bench with wildflowers growing behind it, with a view across a bank of seaside grass to the sea, which is only barely visible above the top of the bank. It is a clear blue summer's day.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Work on the Stirling Building, Cambridge. 📷 #photography

A tall building of green-blue glass on the left, and ahead, two wings of another glass building partly concealed behind a grey panel, and some scaffolding. A blue crane is in the background reaching right. There is a rather heavy cloud overhead with blue sky visible round the edges.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Market Street. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography

A view along a pedestrianised street in Ely on a sunny Saturday in midsummer, with someone central in the picture walking away down the street and modern-looking red brick shops on either side, giving way to older whitewashed shops further off.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fondly remembering those halycon days back in April when I used to leave the house during daylight and go on walks. 📷 #photography

View along a straight path through deciduous woodland in spring, with a tree on the right in front of what's effectively a hedge, and thick dark foliage on the left. It is sunny and the trees are casting shadows across the path.