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Colin Farmery
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Professional messenger; used to being shot. Scribbling with light and posting the outcome. Follow @cocofoto.bsky.social for more pictures. ⚽️ #PortsmouthFC #FCMartigues 🎶 #BassGuitar 🗣️ 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 (ein bisschen) 🇮🇹 (poco) 🍹 Singapore Sling 🚘 2CV
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Colin Farmery @colinfarmery.bsky.social · Oct 17
📸 | #FotoVorschlag-fan in action/aktion? Nr Godalming, England (2024)
‘Rote Blumen oder Blätter' #FotoVorschlag
A silhouette of a man taking a picture of a Japanese Maple shedding its autumn leaves at Winkworth Arboretum.
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📸 | Southsea, England (2025)
#WashOutWednesday an occasional series in association with #FireHydrantFriday and #SluiceValveSaturday

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A blue, with white lettering, WO sign, indicating a wash out hydrant. It’s on the wall of an old friary.
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Nice tribute to Jimmy Dickinson at his statue. #Pompey
Jimmy Dickinson statue at Fratton Park with a blue club crest flower tribute laid in front of it.
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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thx @colinfarmery.bsky.social 😆👍
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November 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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📸 | Berlin, Germany (2025)
#FireHydrantFriday
#FeuerHydrantFreitag
#BouchedIncendieVendredi

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cc @colinfarmery.bsky.social
A pair of electric scooters and some serious graffiti can’t hide the beauty of two Siamese hydrants protruding from the wall.
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📸 | Lancia Delta. Portsmouth, England (2025)
#ClassicCarMonday
#OldTimerMontag
#VoitureDeCollectionLundi

#lancia
#delta
#classiccars
A side-on view fobs red Lancia Delta
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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📸 | Gulls. Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025)
#UrbanGaze #photography #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #Amsterdam
A heterosexual couple, standing on the canal side, laugh as gulls fly around scavenging.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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📸 | Break in Play. Cologne, Germany (2025)
#UrbanGaze #photography #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #GernanyTour
A boy in a green hoodie pauses with a basketball under his arm on an urban court.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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📸 | Sunset. Nr Calais, France (2025)
#EastCoastKin
In the foreground is a roundabout and in the background a sunset enhanced by dramatic clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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📸 | Pictures of Pictures at an Exhibition. Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025)
#UrbanGaze #photography #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #Amsterdam
A young woman takes a photo of her female friend in front of Bartholomeus van der Helst’s Militiamen of the Company of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz A woman, side on, stares at an un seen painting overlooked by Rembrandt’s Man in Oriental Dress. A man scales his mobile phone camera to frame The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer. A man with his back to camera in the foreground looks at a group of students sitting on a bench in front of an unidentified painting of ships.
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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📸 | Goodbye Amsterdam! Centraal Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025)
#reflections #EastCoastKin
An abstract image from the window of the London-bound Eurostar, which has the Eye museum in the background.
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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a group of soccer players are in a locker room and one has the number 6 on his jersey
ALT: a group of soccer players are in a locker room and one has the number 6 on his jersey
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November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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📸 | Reflections on the Red Light District. Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025)
#UrbanGaze #photography #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #Amsterdam
The frontage of a brothel reflected in the adjacent canal. 1/4 The frontage of a brothel reflected in the adjacent canal. 2/4 The frontage of a bar reflected in the adjacent canal as rain starts to fall. 3/4 The frontage of a shop selling a cream and using a phallic object to sell it reflected in a puddle. 4/4
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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📸 | Untitled. Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025)
#EastCoastKin
A woman in a black coat and knee-length boots with her back to the camera waits by a canal side. On the other bank are some traditional Dutch houses with lights on as it is now evening.
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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@richardmortimer.bsky.social Your move… 😉 Say what you like, but that Adriaen van Utrecht knew a still life when he saw one.
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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📸 | Walking the Dog. Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025) #EastCoastKin
A woman on a bike with a dog in the front basket cycles beside a canal.
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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📸 | I, for one, welcome our new Overlords… Berlin-Amsterdam (2025)
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Seats (in first class…) appear like sinister soldiers. Or, is it just me?
November 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Auf Wiedersehen, Berlin! Nur zwei Tage, aber ich habe so viel gesehen und gelernt. Man spürt in dieser Stadt wirklich die Hand der Geschichte… 1/4 #GermanyTour
📸 | Ampelmännchen. Berlin, Germany (2025)
A woman holds an umbrella decorated with the famous Berlin red/green pedestrian crossing man.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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📸 | Good morning! / Moin! Berlin, Germany (2025)
#GermanyTour
A teddy bear looks out of a decrepit building.
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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📸 | Cathedral. Cologne, Germany (2025)
#StainedGlassSunday
#UnJourUnePhoto
#EastCoastKin
#GermanyTour
A wide-angle shot looking towards the altar, emphasising the height of the interior. A close-up of a section of stained glass window made up of coloured rectangles. A stained glass window taken from near the altar. A view of Cologne cathedral at nifty taken from the river bank.
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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📸 | Ozymandias: The Sequel. Berlin, Germany (2025)
#GermanyTour after Shelley
The remains of a section of the Berlin Wall, not far from Checkpoint Charlie, of which GDR leader Erich Honecker said in January 1989: "The Wall will be standing in 50, even in 100 years, if the reasons for it have not been removed by then."
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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📸 | Eastern Blocks. Berlin, Germany (2025)
#UrbanGaze #photography #streetphotography #EastCoastKin #GermanyTour
A tightly-cropped image of a block of flats on Karl-Marx Strasse. 1/4 A tightly-cropped image of a block of flats on Karl-Marx Allee. 2/4 A tightly-cropped image of a block of flats on Karl-Marx Allee. 3/4 A tightly-cropped image of a block of flats on Karl-Marx Allee. 4/4
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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📸 | Thought for the Day / Gedanke für den Tag. Berlin, Germany (2025)
#GermanyTour
A banner strung from a railway line, with a patterned brick building behind suggests we should ‘Party hard’.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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📸 | TV Tower (cloud obscured / Wolken verdeckt). Berlin, Germany (2025)
#GermanyTour
The Berlin TV Tower with its top obscured by low cloud.
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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📸 | Sausage Stand / Wurststand. Berlin, Germany (2025)
#GermanyTour
A woman in a yellow jacket waits to be served at a green stand with a sign in bright red letters saying WURST :-)
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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📸 | Balham, London (2025)
#FireHydrantFriday
#FeuerHydrantFreitag
#BouchedIncendieVendredi

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With autumn leaves supporting the scene, here is a typical leafy semi-detached house, front gate ajar, with a grey wooden fence and a yellow H sign.
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM