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Rob Ralley

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Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.

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Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 9h

No! Well, perhaps occasionally when I'm trying to find things to take pictures of 😁

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 10h

Wow! Beautifully done.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 10h

That's a very kind thing to say. Thank you! 😊

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you! This is as near as our city gets to city lights

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 15h

Lights in the windows.
#BlueskyArtShow #glow 📷 #photography

View along a back street lined with brick buildings, looking towards the end of a couple of shops in another old red brick building. It is dark. A car is parked to one side. One window on each floor has a light, the ground floor window a bright blue travel agent window, the middle floor yellow light and the top floor window an orange glow.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 16h

😆 It wouldn't merit climbing gear! It's the highest point of the old island - traditionally taken to be where Ely Castle stood

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 1d

My guess is not! I don't know the song, but NJ seems to be mentioned in accounts of it. This one is a rather small patch of green land behind (and I think belonging to) Ely Cathedral (UK).

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 1d

I can imagine. (I'll look out for you on Grand Designs... 😀)

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up not far away, used to these sorts of houses, so it still takes me an effort to realise how attractive they are.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely! 😁

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! And the Board(room)

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 1d

Viewpoint. Cherry Hill Park, Ely.
#scape 📷 #photography

The west tower of Ely Cathedral glimpsed through trees from the park to its south. In the foreground is a wooden fence, a footpath, and a park bench arranged for looking across to the cathedral, with a litter bin next to it.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't it! They have them where I grew up, but not round here. Weirdly I miss them. (Also hedgerows.)

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 2d

Abbey Gate, Carlisle.
#Thursgate #UrbanGaze 📷 #photography

View through a gatehouse, from one archway to another (both in dark shadow), out onto a street. The buildings outside are old red brick and red sandstone, and the street is paved with setts.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3d

😆 Or an ibex. I hadn't spotted that!

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! I'm still quietly getting through photos from Arran...

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 3d

Sun on the top of a dry stone wall for #WallsOnWednesday
📷 #photography

A row of substantial rounded lichen-covered stones at the top of a wall with golden light falling across their tops; there is gorse (not in flower) in the background and a grey-blue sky.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful! I think you're right, though it isn't universal - I grew up in one of a pair of (attached) houses that each had a central chimney. I'd guess it's to do with standard layout of rooms in the house.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 4d

I must confess I don't know! In this case I think they're probably decorative not real, so this will be for aesthetic reasons only (to make new houses look older).

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 4d

Canopy.
📷 #photography

View upwards along the trunks of a couple of trees by a small clearing in a patch of woodland, showing their canopy and the sky (blue with a veil of white cloud) beyond. They are sunlit from the side.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 4d

😆

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 5d

No, this was not long after the last new year. It's still too early for us to get snow or frost here.

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social · 5d

Houses, evening.
#BlueSkyMonday 📷 #photography

A pair of semi-detached houses in a cream-coloured render, caught from the side by golden light late on an autumn afternoon. The sky is blue with a drift of faintly purplish cloud across it.