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Exiled ancient Brit engineer living amongst horse carts and shoofly pies; conduit for creatives' dreams, explorer of edge cases, disciple of scale, envoy of the backend All views and opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · Apr 9

When I am not at work, I try (although this year...) to maintain my sanity by wandering around with a camera, taking bad photos at random.

For those who need help sleeping, more can be found over at www.flickr.com/photos/shynd...

Feel free to use and abuse, but an attribution wouldn't go amiss.

Plastic multipoint 3d star lamp suspended on a black background, diffuse orange light filling it

Young child crouched down digging in the yard with a trowel

Sunset over Prettyboy Reservoir in Northern Maryland, trees line the right hand edge, with a vivd sky reflected in the still waters

Marged HDR surreal effect on a parked aircraft at York Airport, PA

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 5h

Jack-o-lantern with a mischievous grin
Ruler of the patch, the pumpkin king
In the dead of night, he comes alive
A Halloween tale that will survive
-- Shel Silverstein

Drizzly days have provided every excuse I need to hide and play games

#ImageAndVerse #31DaysOfHalloween #ColorADay #OrangeSun

Color photograph of a pile of fairytale pumpkins; flatter than the typical jack-o-lanterns, with segments more enhanced too

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Back to chasing progression, challenges and finishing out the story of Dagger 1-3, but before I disappear, a little Pennsylvania hillside, before fall brings forth the amber, red and yellow hues.

#ColorADay #GreenSat #Photography #Trees

Color photograph of the Susquehanna gorge hillsides in southern York County, PA; near uninterrupted cover of mixed, thick, tall, old deciduous trees.

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Heck of a paso #strictly

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Magical feed the birds both musically from Dave Arch and the crew, but wonderfully graceful performance from La Voix and Aljaž

Always loved that song

#strictly

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Could have done with it being twice as fast probably, but I do love that its just as the feet are leaving the post

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no ... no ... no ... no ... Gwi-Ma has won.

Not only are Demon Hunters on #Strictly, but in the form of Saja Boy's Soda Pop

The demon boy band Saya Boys from KPop Demon Hunters

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

By elfin fingers deftly strung
Along each gleaming silver thread.
The hairy spider-witch has fled,
And crouches in a huddled heap,
Beneath a daisy, half asleep.
-- Enid Blyton

As with the poem alas, the one thing its lacking ... the #spider

#Photography #Spooktober #EastCoastKin #smArtist

Color photograph of a spiders web in the early morning, each drop of dew on the strands, a glistening ball, against a blurred fall foliage backdrop. the bottom right quarter of the web is missing, and consists of just a sole strand

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

As in shorter to freeze it better, not longer ... words ... ever my achilles heel

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Thankyou; wish I'd had the shutter speed higher, but it definitely shows action :)

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Initial Battlefield 6 multiplayer thoughts after an evening; solid, ton of fun, well optimized. The single player campaign? From a couple of hours of it, guessing the only service the writers and directors ever put in was in the form of coffee to execs in Hollywood

Published screen cap from electronic arts for the Battlefield 6 single player campaign

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Bluebird airways, the lead in avian special deliveries

#birdoftheday #beakful #EastCoastKin #photography #nature

Color photograph of a bluebird with a beakful of food launching into flight from a fence post

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Stunning

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful words of Oscar Wilde, from La Fuite De La Lune (Flight of the Moon); but they seemed to fit my mood and misty morning

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.

Save for a cry that echoes shrill
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A corncrake calling to its mate;
The answer from the misty hill.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

Color photo of the gentle glowing subtle contrasts of a misty morning, the warming land and the layers of clouds and the most mild of gradients into the sky above

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

Thabk you

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

See also, infinite loops for authors, copy editors that work for free and the most unbiased and harshest critic - I suspect a lot of resentment in Act 2 and a need to murder your self-powered-internet-comment-source in Act 3 ;)

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

With prose borrowed from Ralph Waldo Emerson's wonderful Humble Bumblebee

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

Off I must, to visit sandy vistas, and the subtle scent of cordite in DICE's latest opus; before I do, #FlyDay fun!

"Wiser far than human seer,
Yellow-breeched philosopher!
Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care,
Leave the chaff, and take the wheat."

Color photograph of a bee collecting nectar from goldenrod blooms on the banks of Lake Codurus in southern York County, PA

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

And has their supporters protest outside and threaten the Nobel commitee ... you couldn't make this stuff up ... its completely bonkers

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 2d

"Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again"
-- Mary Oliver

Welcome to Friday, work has kept me largely away from lavishing love on lenses or enchantment with exposure, so today's #Scape returns lakeside. #Photography

A color photography across Lake Redman, York County, PA. Blue sky backdrop with high wispy cloud decreasing left to right, leading down to a relatively dark tree line in the midground and the largely still lake waters reflecting both. On the left hand side foreground a small bush sits

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 3d

Busy work day, less chance for snaptastic additions, but maybe enough time for some more Witch Waffles Wistfully About Gourds.

Today's candidate? Speckled swan gourds, super funky shaped green beasties.

#31DaysOfHalloween #GourdScrolling #Photography #EastCoastKin

Color photograph of a group of speckled swan gourds. Akin to bottle gourds, but with a top portion often curving and narrowing before expanding out again. Dark green in color, with white/beige dime/quarter/tenpenny speckles

Color photograph of a group of speckled swan gourds. Akin to bottle gourds, but with a top portion often curving and narrowing before expanding out again. Dark green in color, with white/beige dime/quarter/tenpenny speckles

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 3d

As someone who tells others that I live under a bridge and am harassed by the constant noise of goats trip trip trapping, I both applaud and are scared by your efforts ;)

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 3d

Folks in Harrisburg making the most of good weather before Fall takes its hold, crossing the bridge from City Island into the city.

#Photography #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

Black and white photograph of the view from Harrisburg, PA's Riverfront Park across the footbridge to City Island, and many visitors crossing it.

Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 3d

Cousin of Tatooine's Sarlacc?

Or maybe just the heart of a wonderful pompom chrysanthemum, with a yellow outer and a brown/red center.

#Photography #YellowThu #Flowers #BloomScrolling #MacroPhotography

Color closeup photograph of the center of a chrysanthemum, with a yellow petals brown/red center showing teeth-like petals growing/unfurling