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Peter Barnes
@infinite8horizon.com
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Eclectic curmudgeon, bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d

On Turrbal land, he/him/ally.
Photos etc. here.
Politics at @infinite8horizon2.bsky.social
∃ @infinite8horizon alter-egos on mastodon & others.
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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · Mar 27
Hi, and welcome!
I have two BlueSky accounts.
This one is for my photos (and others') and other nice things.

The other account, @infinite8horizon2.bsky.social, is for politics and not-so-nice things. Choose wisely, and check the auto-complete.

Bio is the same (it's me!), link in profile.
Enjoy.
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#ThickTrunkTuesday

Darwin, see Fig 1...

#photography #nature #trees #gift #EastCoastKin
Enormously twisted strangler fig trunk
January 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Solitude

Darter, kite, lorikeet (sorry), just one egret
You may have to click in for the last two...

#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
Australasian darter silhouetted against sunset A kite not stuck in a tree Larry the lonesome lorikeet I have but one egret...
January 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsInFlight

Greater crested tern, white-bellied sea eagle, rainbow bee-eater, rainbow bee-eater
#photography #birds #flying #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
A greater crested tern flying almost head on towards the photographer, wings on the downbeat A white-bellied sea-eagle flying very low over a billabong A rainbow bee-eater with wings and tail outspread, sun shining through the feathers Rainbow bee-eater descending a staircase (apologies to Duchamp) a time-series of the bird taking off and flying
January 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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Good Morning!
Bald Knob 063152
The sun shines even when it's raining...

#ClassicMono
#photography #landscape #cloudscape #mono #rain #gift #EastCoastKin
The morning sun illuminates but can't shine through a dense band of rain sweeping towards our vantage point high on the escarpment. The distant sea is just visible through the shining rain, while nearer on the plain it's still clear but dark, and the silver sky is reflected in a dam. The scene is viewed through the canopies of multiple eucalypts. The sun shines even when it's raining.
January 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
mlknippenberg.bsky.social
Thought I'd mention the book I wrote for this weeks #alphabetchallenge #weekbforbooks

In the book you'll find out who I met while hitchhiking to work for more than two years and what they disclosed to me in that very intimate setting ♥️

1/4

www.amazon.de/dp/B0G497XPZ5

#blueskymonday #eastcoastkin
Waiting Six Minutes For Happiness: 100 extraodinary encounters with strangers (English Edition)
Waiting Six Minutes For Happiness: 100 extraodinary encounters with strangers (English Edition) eBook : Knippenberg, Marjan: Amazon.de: Kindle Store
www.amazon.de
January 12, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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Good Morning
Bald Knob 055037
The neurodivergent cloud...

#MinimalMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #ArtYear #smArtist
#photography #landscape #cloudscape #ND #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A lone cloud floats higher above a dense lower bank of layered cumulus. The bank is grey, the lone cloud lit rosy pink by the approaching sunrise.
January 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #natural

Crimson finch, double-barred finch, Great eastern egret, and a golden mangrove whistler in a LOT of mangroves. And not a lorikeet or kingfisher to be seen.

#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
Crimson finch in pandanus (where else) Double-barred finches, OCC Eastern great egret, Kakadu National Park Mangrove golden whistler... ...mangroves
January 11, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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Good Morning!
Have a splendid weekend!
Bald Knob 055102

#Stunday
#photography #sunrise #landscape #cloudscape #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A heavily clouded, dramatic sunrise over the ocean, the sun obscured by banks of low cumulus but filling the sky with deep apricot and orange hues, backlighting the clouds.
January 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MoodyFaces
I've anthropomorphically chosen 3 moods: judgmental, confrontational, and hangry/despondent. I'll let you guess...

King parrots in the rain, outraged galahs, two sad king parrots

#photography #birds #moods #EastCoastKin
A bedraggled female king parrot expressing her displeasure at the rain Two galahs outraged at the presumption of a lorikeet A galah refusing to share the feeder A king parrot waiting for a lorikeet to leave
January 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MoodyFaces
I've anthropomorphically chosen 3 moods: judgmental, confrontational, and hangry/despondent. I'll let you guess...

wagtail v kingfisher, curlew v magpie lark, blue-winged kookaburra v little friarbird, king parrots

#photography #birds #moods #EastCoastKin
wagtail v kingfisher curlew v magpie lark blue-winged kookaburra v little friarbird King parrot v King parrot
January 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MoodyFaces
I've anthropomorphically chosen 3 moods: judgmental, confrontational, and hangry/despondent. I'll let you guess...

Australian boobook, tawny frogmouth

Some of these are reposts
#photography #birds #moods #EastCoastKin
Two boobooks judging me A tawny frogmouth pronouncing sentence
January 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
marjanknippenberg.bsky.social
One photo per day from my archive. Completely random in subject, time, location. Photos that make me happy. And hopefully you too 😊

Marjans photo #389

#photography #nature #landscape #blueskyartshow #vibrant #eastcoastkin
A sunset behind a lake with bright orange and soft yellows and blues. Sky and leafless trees reflected in the still water.
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Four abstracts

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbstract
Chilis, roses, dandelion, croton

#photography #art #abstract #GIMP #GMIC #gift #EastCoastKin
A digitally manipulated picture of red chilis using GIMP and GMIC A digitally manipulated picture of violet roses using GIMP and GMIC A digitally manipulated picture of a dandelion using GIMP and GMIC A digitally manipulated picture of a croton flower using GIMP and GMIC
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Four abstracts

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbstract
Ripple 1, ripple 2, sky in water, bark

#photography #art #abstract #GIMP #GMIC #gift #EastCoastKin
A digitally manipulated picture of water ripples, using GIMP and GMIC, retinex A digitally manipulated picture of water ripples, using GIMP and GMIC, retinex High-contrast high f-stop picture of sun sparkles on water A digitally manipulated picture of eucalypt bark, using GIMP and GMIC,
January 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #Feathers&Form

Red-tailed black cockatoo, sulphur crested cockatoo, australasian darter, (inevitably) rainbow lorikeet
Profile portrait of a male red-tailed black cockatoo Profile portrait of a suphur-crested cockatoo with its crest raised Detail of the beautiful white streaked black feathers of the australasian darter Breast feathers of a rainbow lorikeet
January 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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After Klimt...
(A long way after)

#BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant #ColorADay #GreenSat
#photography #birds #lorikeets #kissing #gift #EastCoastKin
A pair of rainbow lorikeets "kissing" - allopreening or mutual preening, part of courtship and couple behaviour.
January 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Good Morning!
Mooloolah valley mist 68

#photography #landscape #mist #Mooloolah #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
High view down over the crowns of close trees out over a series of ridges and valleys all shrouded in seas of early-morning mist. An ocean horizon is just visible through branches at the top of the picture.
January 9, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
mlknippenberg.bsky.social
Love the details when the trees have lost all their leaves 🪾🍃

#photography #photographersofbluesky #nature #landscape #scape #eastcoastkin
All sorts of leafless trees reflected in a still pond. A house on the right is being lit up by the setting sun. The sky is hazy.
January 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
mlknippenberg.bsky.social
Have a wonderful weekend 💗

#photography #nature #landscape #scape #eastcoastkin #fens
Panoramic view of a still fen with golden grasses in front and leafless and pintrees at the back. The sky is clouded ecxept for a stroke of soft pink near the horzion.
January 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
pierpaolo.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Rose-crowned fruit dove
(Ptilinopus regina)

Happily it's both #FlyDay and the theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #ShortBeaks, so both qualify. In the canopy at Fogg Dam.

#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #EastCoastKin
A beautifully multicoloured but muted dove, with pink cap, white head and shoulders, orange belly and green wings. Seen here in rainforest shade against a backdrop of sunlit green leaves.
January 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Good Morning!
Teneriffe river sunrise

#photography #scape #landscape #river #sunrise #gift #EastCoastKin
The sun has yet to clear the horizon, there is just the beginnings of a pink and orange glow visible low in the sky between two low banks of cloud. Above, the sky rapidly shades to a dark blue, with some gently backlit cloud. The scene is reflected in the very still waters of the Brisbane river.
January 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Good evening!
Bald Knob 175027

#photography #landscape #scape #ColorADay #BWFri #FullMoon #gift #EastCoastKin
The risen full moon shines in a dark sky through a silhouetted arch of overhanging leaves. Below, its light reflects from the distant ocean, creating more light than the pinpoints on the coast and a scattering in the valley below.
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #FoodFinds

I've posted a quartet already, but I thought this find deserved its own picture... Kookaburra and breakfast

#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
Kookaburra and captured snake. Another kookaburra is looking on, and you can almost hear it saying "You're not going to eat *all* of that are you?"
January 8, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from @alan678.bsky.social is #FoodFinds

Figbird (returning after recent appearance), lorikeets (inevitably), rainbow bee-eaters, black-necked stork
#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
A fig-bird displaying nominative determinism A lorikeet and anti-lorikeet A rainbow bee-eater returning with what turns out *not* to bee a gift Black-necked stork with very slim pickings
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM