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Tony Allen-Mills

@taminf.bsky.social

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Former foreign correspondent retired to the mountains of France, where I’ve (mostly) hung up my pen and picked up a camera. Veteran traveller, now focused on landscapes, birds, dragon- and butterflies with the odd urban scene thrown in.

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · May 15

There are lakes scattered all over our mountain region, but few prettier than the Lac de Barterand, close to the Rhone river valley.

#photography #landscape #france #ain

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 10h

Lucky you!

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 18h

Lake in autumn

#photography #landscape #scape

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 20h

Many of you, I'm sure, will have wondered what a French fire hydrant looks like with its cover off. For #FireHydrantFriday, here's your answer:

#photography #Arles

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Alan. Keep 'em coming!

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Rob.

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 1d

My pleasure - see you in another palace next week!

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 1d

For today's #BirdoftheDay, here's a #spotted Northern Flicker, its beak muddy from digging for grubs. Theme by @alan678.bsky.social

#photography #birds

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing like the Loire Valley for contributions to today's #PalacesandGardens theme. Here's the Chateau de Villandry with its vegetable gardens in full autumn bloom.

#photography #France #roadtrip

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 2d

So our recent French road trip began at Calais, under blustery skies with occasional gaps in the clouds sending shafts of evening sunlight along the coast.

#photography #landscape #France #CapGrisNez

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Rob.

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 3d

Not silly at all - beautiful!

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 3d

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #migration. Here's a flight of Black-tailed godwits winging their way across central France last Spring. Such elegant #birdsinflight. Thanks to @alan678.bsky.social as always.

#photography #birds

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 4d

Ha!

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 4d

Hope this qualifies as a #seabirds shot for today's #BirdoftheDay theme:

A menacing gang of American White Ibises gather on a Florida beach with their eyes on a squirrel's nut

#photography #birds #snacking

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 4d

It was a grey morning when we arrived at the Chateau de Serrant in the Loire Valley. But a carpet of autumn crocus helped brighten things up...

#photography #landscape #roadtrip #trees #bloomscrolling

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Rob.

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Sabine - I wish I was more enthusiastic about getting up before dawn!

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 5d

Late entry for today's #birdoftheday, alternative theme of #photobomb set by @alan678.bsky.social

Here's what happens when you're aiming at a nice white swan and a divebombing crow appears from nowhere....

#photography #birds

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 5d

Home from my photographic Tour de France at last, with 3,000+ photos to process. Here's an early sunrise over the Loire.

#photography #landscape

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the repost!

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the mention!

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 6d

With a couple of hours in between trains, I took to the oldest quarters of Nîmes for an iPhone mosaic of door knobs….

#photography #urbangaze #street

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 8d

It’s Friday, I’m in Arles and I can see a fire hydrant from my bedroom window! Life doesn’t get better than this…

#photography #FireHydrantFriday #France #Rencontres

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 8d

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No - it’s a railway station. At Lyon Saint-Exupéry, on the Paris-Mediterranean high speed train line.

#photography #architecture #France