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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 1d

Crown shyness occurs when tree crowns avoid touching, creating puzzle-like gaps in the canopy. It likely reduces wind damage, limits disease spread, and optimizes light. Observed worldwide in eucalyptus, pines, and oaks. 🌳🌳

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike some pollinators, we’re not in the business of sticking our proboscis into flowers, but we do eat them, collect them, place them on coffins, give them to prom dates, throw them at weddings, decorate our homes with their odor and shape.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Woman Who Perfected Flower Painting

The 17th-century painter Rachel Ruysch was once more famous than Vermeer.

www.theatlantic.com

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 2d

Petty “ignored all comment, fought off all publicity and went her own headstrong way, drawing never to please critics or get ahead, but solely from the love of her subject matter.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Mary Petty, the Mysterious Cover Artist Who Captured the Decline of the Rich

Petty was reclusive, uncompromising, but she peered into a fading world with unmatched warmth and brilliance.

www.newyorker.com

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Filipp @filipparts.bsky.social · 2d

In Hiva Oa, children were forced to go to Catholic boarding schools that snuffed out native tradition, language, and beliefs. Outraged, Gauguin located an obscure French law that proved only children within a four-kilometre radius of a school were bound to attend.

www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

What Was Paul Gauguin Looking For?

The artist has lately been derided as a colonizer and a pedophile, the creep of the Post-Impressionists. A new book reëxamines his vision.

www.newyorker.com

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 3d

Sunken punkin. #art

A pumpkin diving helmet sits at the bottom of the sea. Close by there is strange sea life, including a squidish acorn and a leaf-tailed fish. Painted with coffee.

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Cris @pigei.bsky.social · 6d

Questa luna nuda e ipnotica sembra invitare a esprimere un desiderio, e io mi chiedo se ci si possa fidare di una che cambia sempre volto e brilla di luce rubata al sole.

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 4d

Max Ernst, La Mer Aux Oiseaux (1925)

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 8d

Goth band album cover.

Groove-billed Anis are fabulous birds. A type of cuckoo, this species lives in social groups of up to 10 birds and they collectively guard their territory and even share a nest together!

These birds were taking a break today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social to groom each other.

Five black birds perch closely together on a branch, their glossy feathers and long tails standing out against a blurred green forest background.

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ND John @johnwmich.bsky.social · 7d

With the rising moon to the east, here's the view to the west. 10/6/25. #photography

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Yuming Li @yumingart.bsky.social · Feb 7

Car

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𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 @pierpaolo.bsky.social · 5d

Il sole, tramontando dietro una collina ricoperta di alberi, illumina e fa brillare le spighe di pabbio comune (setaria viridis) che crescono spontanee ai margini di un prato.

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H☮PE @a-r-tforpeace.bsky.social · 9d

🧡💚💜

#ducks
#birdphotography
#NaturePhotography
#WildlifePhotography

A couple of mandarin ducks, facing each other on a piece of water, in which they are reflected.
📸: Praswin Prakashan.

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H☮PE @a-r-tforpeace.bsky.social · 5d

💚💜💛

#butterfly
#InsectThursday
#NaturePhotography

a white butterfly with black spots resting on a purple flower that has not yet opened.
📸: mrngochuy.

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Esa Holopainen @esaholle.bsky.social · 7d

Lokakuun luonnokset No: 7
Äitienpäiväruusu tiputti viimeiset kukat

Tussipiirros, ruusu ruukussa ilman kukkia

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Mao and the Sparrows @maoandthesparrows.bsky.social · 2d

An October scene. A road lined with orange and red leafed maple trees passes through their canopy to a distant clearing.

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korraiko | waitlist open @korraiko.bsky.social · 21d

🍂 It's officially Autumn! 🍂
Quote repost with your Autumn themed art #autumnart #illustration

The digital portrait shows a woman with pale skin and dark long hair, she looks like a doll, her face cracked and bleeding. She is wearing a black veil and has a crown of thorns on her head. Near the woman's face and on her right shoulder sit several moths

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Andrew 📷 @vixcomplex.bsky.social · 10d

Twilight Moon
10-02-2025

Waxing gibbous with 78% illumination
@mel789.bsky.social

📷Pixel 9 Pro, Handheld
#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax
#waxing #moon #twilight #minimalist #Scape #lunar #contemplative #photography #bluehour #Art #ArtYear #写真 #風景 #Foto #Fotografia #dusk #Cloud #photography

Waxing gibbous moon glowing warmly against a deep blue twilight sky, with layered misty clouds creating a dreamy horizon below

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Andrew 📷 @vixcomplex.bsky.social · 7d

The Hunter's Moon
East Bay, N. California
6:50pm, October 6, 2025

#BlueSkyMonday #full #moon #twilight #Scape #lunar #contemplative #photography #bluehour #Art #ArtYear #写真 #風景 #Foto #Fotografia #dusk #nightphotography #landscapephotography #SonyAlpha