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@tamarphotography.bsky.social

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#Landscape and #Portrait Photographer south-west of UK. Still thinking of ditching Adobe (it's like a habit-forming drug) and currently experimenting with Darktable. Website Link: tamarphotography.co.uk Substack: https://tamarphotography.substack.com/

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Mar 29

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My first proper post on Substack. It's not so much about photography - more about the city of Plymouth on one day this March. Included plenty of shots that have not reached Bluesky.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Photography #StreetPhotography #Plymouth #Devon

One Day in the Life of Plymouth

Part 1: People Groups, March 22nd, 2025

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 5

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For #BlueSkyArtShow #Sideways

My attempt at 1950s Hollywood Film Noir

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Photography #Portrait #Portraiture #PhotographersofBluesky #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #bnw #noir #filmnoir

Monochrome photo of a young woman peering through Venetian blinds - presumably at the street. She is holding an automatic pistol in her right hand.

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 5

Beautiful shot with great tones

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 5

For #SatARTDay #BlueskyArtShow

'Onions'

Rosemoor Gardens, #Devon

#Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #RHS #Rosemoor #Vegetable #Onions

A string of onions, both brown and red, hangs on a stone wall beside a wall light.

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

#EastCoastKin #Photography #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #Documentary #UK #PicturePost
#HumansofBluesky

Some superb photos here from Picture Post, 1938-1957.

Please repost!!

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Immigrants, flying sheep and Brigitte Bardot: Britain through the lens of Picture Post

From 1938 to 1957, the celebrated photo magazine captured tattooists, transgender women and topless men sinking pints – and changed the way the country saw itself

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

Beautiful shot.

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

Such energy and movement yet peaceful at the same time.

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

Beautiful shot.

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

Outstanding!!

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

In which order? ;-)

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

Nice image & appreciate the commentary ("the balance between light and dark is way the fuck off right now"). On the nail, I'd say :-)

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thankyou kindly. You're dead right - this is an image not really suited for social (still less anti-social) media on a smartphone. It's a print image that needs to be say 20 x 16 & on a wall.

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

For #scape day.

"Holmbush Mine Engine House"

A long closed copper mine.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Photography #landscape #LandscapePhotography #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #bnw #Derelict #Abandoned #Cornwall #Kernow #PhotographersofBluesky

A monochrome photo of a long closed copper mine in Cornwall. In the centre can be seen the chimney for the boiler & to the right the old engine house. This would have housed the beam engine with a mine shaft just outside the building.

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

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For #ShopfrontFriday

"Armed Forces Day, Exmouth"

Perhaps one of the most eccentric shop fronts in England? Anybody got any others to post?

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #Urban #Exmouth #Devon

A colourful shopfront decorated with flags celebrating VE Day & various branches of the UK military.

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

For #FireHydrantFriday

"FireHydrant & Bluebells"

Spring is now sadly over & the Bluebells are gone.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky

A yellow fire hydrant nestles in a hedgerow with Bluebells in the foreground.

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 4

It's #EastCoastKin #scape day!

From a recent walk on #Dartmoor. Hard to believe that in the 18th & 19th Centuries this was an industrial landscape with a tin mine in the fore & middle ground.

#LandscapePhotography #Landscape #ClassicMono #BlackandWhite #bnw #Photography #Nature #Moorland #Devon

A monochrome image of a moorland landscape on Dartmoor, Devon, UK. In the foreground can be seen a traditional dry stone wall, looking over undulating ground (shaped by a long-closed tin mine).

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Ulf Brockmann @ulf-brockmann.bsky.social · Jul 3

Marie by Pixelhunter
Mind changing photography

The window sessions

#woman #portraiture #humansofbluesky #thursday #portraitphotography #monochrome #beauty #pixelhunter #photography #female #blackandwhite #model #fotografie #noiretblanc #beyou #eastcoastkin

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 3

Wonderful capture. The last person you'd expect to see on a Chopper!

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 3

Wonderful to see such a photo.

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 3

Simple yet very effective :-) love it.

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Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thankyou Ergast for your kind comment. It is much appreciated :-)

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thankyou kindly for your comment, Brent. Truth is - I hate doing sunsets - & others do them so much better!

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 3

Many years ago I lived for a short while in Bavaria. I remember the Englischer Garten in Munich where office workers would remove their clothes at lunchtime break - the small lakes in the Allgau similarly. Being British I found this strange at first - but got used to it.

Bob @tamarphotography.bsky.social · Jul 3

All beautiful photos :-)