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Benjamin Simpson
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I don’t know.

What was the question again?

Also, I built a time machine out of rubber bands and hope.
Some of the photos are taken from my rental spaceship as I travel the exoplanets. The journeys help keep me vaguely sane.

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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · Oct 2
It’s October, so I can inflict you with my simply named ‘angel-and-cherub-statue-photographs-with-dramatic-lighting-because-cemeteries-are-beautiful’ series of photos.

#cemetery #statue #angel #graveyard #photography #goth
A statue in a cemetery. It is a woman or an angel. She is looking down with one hand on her chest. Side light so half of her face is in shadow. Ready for a goth album cover.
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No words today.

#mushrooms #fungi #nature #photography #forest
Photo of mushrooms. Two mushrooms on the forest floor from the point of view of an imaginary ant in the earth of the forest floor. The mushrooms have mostly white, with a little brown, stems. Under the cap is white and there is some sort of sheath surrounding the underside of the cap. The top of the cap is brown.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Slightly different today:
me at work, photographing 200-year-old documents.
with,
um,
helper.

#cat #blackcat #photography #feline
Photo looking down at a white sheet on a brown carpet. The legs of a camera tripod are just visible. As well as the feet of a light stand. My feet in black socks are also just visible. Laying, licking herself, is a black, nonchalantly helping me with the shoot.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Blooming again soon.

#flower #autumn #nature #photography #bloomscrolling
A photo of a flower. Green stalk with green fringe. The center is brown and filled with stuff like a wheat field. The petals are yellow. This flower is dying. Half the petals have fallen off and the ones that are left are dropping sadly, withered and starting to brown. Everything dies, but it will come back.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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No words today.

#stream #nature #photography #autumn #calm
A photo of a river in a forest. There are green leaves on a tree in the foreground. There is a stone in the river covered in moss and that is covered with fallen brown leaves. The water is smoothed and softened by long exposure. Peaceful calm.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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busy busy busy
quiet little moment

#moss #stream #nature #photography #forest #peaceful #dartmoor
A photo of a stream in a forest. A small stream, almost able to jump across. But all the stones are covered in green moss and slippery fallen brown leaves. A fallen tree sits across the water covered in moss. Long exposure so the water is smoothed. Calm and relaxing.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Let them eat cake!

(Don’t think too much about any of that [!angry!angry!angry!!] look at pretty forest lichen instead)

#lichen #photography #nature #forest #moss #tree
A photo of a small tree branch. The branch is brown with specks of green moss. There is lichen on top that look like miniature leaves of lettuce. Hanging from the bottom is white lichen that looks like a tiny skeletal bush. White and dry and dead but still there.
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Stop and smell the flo….
What are those little things in the middle?
Why are they there?
How many millions of years to transform, evolve?
Too many questions.
Or not enough questions.

#flower #nature #photography #macro
Detail photo of a flower. Just the round center bit with the bright yellow orange petals around the side cut off by the edge of the photo. The center is filled by 40? 50? Tiny tiny little bid like things. It looks like really really coarse sandpaper. So wonderfully complex.
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Flowers are so wonderfully weird and stupidly complex and simply beautiful and just a flower and an alien life and to tiny to notice and so big they dominate our sight.

#flower #nature #photography #macro #peaceful
A photo of a flower against a black background. It’s amazingly complex. The are eight thin green leaves at the back. There are eight purple petals surrounding the center like a cupped hand. In the center are many many many little stalks sticking right to the edge of the petals. Almost looks like it is looking at the sun. Which is what it is doing.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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So smooth and simple.
But so craggy and complex.

#nature #photography #flower #field #macro
How to describe this? It’s a photo of something that looks like a long thick stem of wheat. Single long stem with green shoots and purple edges. The end is bumpy but smooth like a torpedo. I’ve got to get better at this.
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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No words today.

#photography #nature #flower #macro #petal #stamen
A purple flower. But not the traditional flower, more like an elongated clam shell. One top and one bottom petal. Out of the top shell hangs the stamen, w willowy thin line forking at the end. Almost alien.
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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…with a bow in her hair.

or

My emotional support arachnid travels everywhere with me.

#spider #arachnid #statue #cemetery #grave #photography #31daysofhalloween
A statue in a cemetery. A white marble statue of a young girl with curly hair a bow at her neck and her hands held in prayer. She is looking down in sorrow. There is a tiny spider with extraordinary long legs on top of her hair where a bow would be. The spider on the statue on her head. Tiny body with extra extra long legs. Detail view of just the body of the spider. Brown and gray. Two antennae or claws. It looks like the spider is looking at you with huge eyes. Alien and creepy and beautiful.
October 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Quietly purple.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest #moss #quiet
A mushroom. A tiny mushroom. On the side of a tree there is a solid wall of green moss. The tiny mushroom is growing out of this. The mushroom is tall and slender with a perfectly formed cap. It is a soft subtle purple with soft hairs around the base.
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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No words today.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest #macro
Three mushrooms from the point of view of a beetle on the forest floor. Three mottled gray stems and three light brown umbrella like tops with white ribs underneath.
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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No words today.

#cemetery #graveyard #sorrow #statue #photography #goth
A statue in a cemetery. The face of maybe an angel. She is looking down in sorrow with her hand on the side of her face. The stone is lightly mottled with green and yellow lichen.
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Quietly softly gently.

#statue #cemetery #angel #goth #31daysofhalloween #photography
A statue in a cemetery. A statue of a cherub angel. The gray stone face is looking down. There is one stone wing visible. The photo is dark and moody. There is flecks of green and white lichen on the stone.
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Breathe

#river #stream #nature #photography #forest #moss
A stream in a forest. In the foreground is a large rock covered in green moss and a fern. Next to the rock water is flowing between another rock on the other side but this rock is black and wet and also covered in moss. There is a tiny waterfall, but the water is smoothed into artificial calm with a long exposure. Smooth and calm of a bubbling mess that becomes smooth and calm if you stare at it for long enough in real life.
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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No words today.

#mushroom #fungi #nature #photography #forest
Two mushrooms on the forest floor. They are set against a backdrop of green moss. The mushrooms are light brown thin stems with the umbrella cap light brown and the just visible underneath is filled with many white ribs.
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Weirdly strange and beautiful random nature art. Water and pine needles hanging from a tree in the forest.

#pine #forest #water #nature #photography #naturalart
Hanging in a dark forest. It looks like a large dangling earring. At the end of a drooping pine branch there are three small clumps of brown needles with rain water infused so that each clump is almost solid and glistening. Did that make sense?
October 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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No words today.

#mushroom #fungi #nature #photography #forest #peaceful
Mushrooms in a dark dank forest. There are two mushrooms dominant in the foreground and more in the background. They are growing on a fallen log. They are wrapping around the log to find the sun. Mushrooms use the sun? Right? No wait, stupid question, they must. Two gently curved stems with brown and white button tops.
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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In the cemetery:
Modern angel?
Non-cemetery art?
Ancient Greek style grave marker?
Venus?
Thinking too much?
Thinking not enough?

#cemetery #gravestone #statue #photography
A statue in a cemetery. A gray stone statue of a woman with shoulders bare and a sleeveless dress. The dress is tied in a knot at the shoulder and hangs like a classical Greek or Roman dress. The dress is off one shoulder and hugs the chest. The woman is looking up in an expression of wistful yearning.
October 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Still life.
With very little still, and lots of life.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest
A mushroom on a forest floor. There is a piece of a fallen log in dark greens and browns. On top of this log is a white mushroom. In the traditional thin stalk with umbrella top. The ribs of the umbrella are visible because the shot is vaguely straight on/upward. It is dark and dank and peaceful and quiet, but so much life in the mushroom that only lives a few days.
October 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Quietly watching over a gravestone.

#graveyard #cemetery #photography #statue #cherub #31daysofhalloween
In a cemetery there is a statue of probably a cherub. Childlike face with curly stone hair. The statue is gray with hints of white lichen. The lighting is dark and moody. Detail only of the face looking down.
October 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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No words today.

#river #stream #dartmoor #photography #nature #quiet
A stream in a forest. In the foreground is a large rock covered in green moss. Next to the rock water is flowing between another rock on the other side but this rock is black and wet. There is a tiny waterfall, but the water is smoothed into artificial calm with a long exposure. Smooth and calm of a bubbling mess that is smooth and calm if you stare at it for long enough in real life.
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Snails view.

#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lines #nature #photography #macro #forest
A mushroom. Close view of the underside of a mushroom. There is a white stalk and a plethora of perfect straight lines growing up from the stalk to make smooth lines. Each line is a thin strip of fungi. Half of the mushroom is in darkness.
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Softly watching over the dead.

#cemetery #statue #angel #graveyard #31daysofhalloween
A statue. A statue in a cemetery. A view only of the face from the side. A cherub or an angel with curly stone hair. There is a dusting of brown lichen on the hair. The face is looking down somberly with closed eyes.
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM