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tikkamatala

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Pictures of things that caught my eye. All images are mine unless it's a repost or stated otherwise. No money requests. No hitting on me. No shady offers to buy other people's images from me (!!). No flirty messages from young ladies, lol. Thank you.

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tikkamatala @tikkamatala.bsky.social · Jul 22

Dewy rose and bud.

#flowers #nature #garden #bloomscrolling #photography #outdoors #artinnature #nature #takeahike #CloseUpPhotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBreak #PhotographersofBlueSky #Canada #gardenfeed #bloom #blossom #plants #weeds #gardening

A dew-coated pink rose and red bud with dewy green leaves.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 2h

Good Afternoon🍂

Diane Parnell ~ Autumn Sun

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Nov 12

My recent kinetic poem 'As Above' is featured in Issue #8 of the Surrealist Journal, Peculiar Mormyrid #8.
The poem maps the correlation extreme phenomena has to the unreliability of perception as it plays to one's emotional state.

📷Bill Wolak

peculiarmormyrid.com/arthur-spota...

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tikkamatala @tikkamatala.bsky.social · 16h

Wild grape.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 9d

A leaf beetle, Stolas sp., in a Belizean rainforest.

Macro photo of a round, metallic blue beetle with six red spots standing alert on a backlit green leaf tip against a pure black background.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

One of the midwest's most iconic insects, a goldenrod soldier beetle sits in a mid-summer aster. Indiana Dunes National Park.

Macro photo in full on view of a large yellow flower, with an elongated orange/yellow beetle with black legs, antennae, and markings standing on the petals just above the center.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 1d

When fly designers subcontract Jackson Pollock to do the eyes. (Eristalinus sp. hover fly, Victoria, Australia).

A close-in macro photograph of the face of a robust greenish-yellow hover fly standing on a green leaf. The fly's enormous compound eyes are speckled with hundreds of blood-red spots.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jul 9

The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own.

Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.

Photograph of a metallic blue/green beetle with a very spider-like body, a huge fake "abdomen" that is swollen and dented with even pits over its bulbous surface. It is otherwise ant-like, standing on a pure white stylized background.

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Louise Fryer 🎃 @louisecfryer.bsky.social · 5d

#blackandwhitephotography #ClassicMono #café #window #iphonephotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Black and white photograph of a window taken inside a café.

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Louise Fryer 🎃 @louisecfryer.bsky.social · 4d

#blackandwhitephotography #ClassicMono #beach #miminmalistphotography #iphonephotography #HumansOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky

Black and white photo of a woman walking on an empty beach at low tide.

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ione blue @ioneblue.bsky.social · 2d

raindrops on dahlias
#photography
#macrophotography
#photographersofbluesky
#eastcoastkin
#imageandverse
#stunday
#flowers
#art
#bloomscrolling

"Rain is grace;
rain is the sky descending to the earth;
without rain, there would be no life."

- John Updike
truer words...

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macrophotograph of a dark pink dahlia in the rain. drops on the petals. some bit of light on some bits of petals. dark, dark green background. taken at the chicago botanic garden.

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ione blue @ioneblue.bsky.social · 1d

white dianthus with green
#photography
#macrophotography
#photographersofbluesky
#eastcoastkin
#imageandverse
#flowers
#art
#bloomscrolling

"A light here requires a shadow there."
— Virginia Woolf

Always.

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macrophotograph of a white dianthus with yellow-green accents and yellow stamens, filling the frame. hard to see but they are there. more dianthus behind it plus a purple mum at the furthers back on the top left. with a Virginia Woolf quote about shadow and light. so true.

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tikkamatala @tikkamatala.bsky.social · 1d

Night.

Dried flower stalks stand out against the dark and a reddish treetop in the background.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 1d

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”
― Criss Jami

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charlie @lonelyeyecharlie.bsky.social · 2d

dawn peace
august '25
📷: nikon fe
🎞️: arista edu 200

#grass #botanical #bloomscrolling #filmphotography #photography #eastcoastkin #classicmono

close black and white photo of flowering grass, bent in the wind

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 1d

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset."
-Crowfoot
💙🌟💙🌛

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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tikkamatala @tikkamatala.bsky.social · 2d

October night.

The moon is reflected in the water, framed by trees.

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gibboustime.bsky.social @gibboustime.bsky.social · Sep 3

me n gang in the voice chat

#art #artwork #artist #digital #digitalart #digitalartwork #campfire #games #videogames #ibispaint #ibispaintx #ibispaintxart #ibispaintart

A group of online friends in a circle around a campfire, all portrayed as characters with designs loosely referencing various shooter videogames (Signalis, Deep Rock Galactic, Rainbow Six Siege, Counter-Strike).

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gibboustime.bsky.social @gibboustime.bsky.social · Sep 9

accidentally awesome doodle
#art #artwork #doodle #pencil #paper #artist #drawing

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 4d

The stairs are not taking you somewhere—they are the somewhere.

PHOTO by Rido Alwarno. A moss-lined stone staircase ascends through a quiet forest, dappled with morning light filtering through young trees. The air is misty, softening the edges of leaves and casting a glow over the dewy undergrowth. Fallen leaves rest along the steps, untouched, as the path disappears gently into the luminous haze ahead.

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 17d

The digital world is a binary one; it’s either on or off. Analog is more nuanced; it’s the in-between spaces where magic often happens.

- John Maeda

PHOTO by Andrea Piacquadio. A historic astronomical clock with a vivid, multicolored face is mounted on a stone tower. Golden Roman numerals and zodiac signs encircle the dial, while intricate metal hands and an orb mark time and celestial positions. Figures of a skeleton and other characters flank the clock, part of its animated hourly performance. The structure is richly detailed with gothic carvings, contrasting with the clock’s vibrant blue, teal, and amber hues. Sunlight glints softly on the glass and gold, enhancing the clock’s timeless elegance.

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Landguy @landguyminor.bsky.social · 3d

#spooktober #spider #photography #arachnids #bugs #halloween #webs #spiderwebs #eastcoastkin #glow #blueskyartshow

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 3d

Coneflower (Echinacea) #glow courtesy of a very fast APS-C portrait lens on a FF camera for the #BlueSkyArtShow.

Part of my project photographing plants with unusual lenses.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography

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Archer Casper @archercasper.bsky.social · 3d

Great Egret🪽 #BlueSkyArtShow #glow

📷 Nikon D3400, Nikkor 200-500mm

#photography #wildlife #birdphotography #egret #artyear #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #dslr #nikkor #nikon

Image of a Great Egret against a black background, its beak and edges of its body glow in the sun, white its face is obscured by shadow.

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Kevin Schaffer @kschafferphoto.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing says autumn to me like backlit aspen leaves :)

Nikon Z9, Z 70-200mm S lens at 200mm(DX crop on), f2.8, ISO100, 1/1250 second

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