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Arts. Gilder here, traditional.
Ophthalmic tech
Rocks, ancient
History buff esp the 1692 Salem witch trials.
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Through my Eyes (1970s)
Dorothea Wight (1944-2013)
Mezzotint on paper

Wight’s landscape view shows memories of the Devon countryside seen through ambiguous window frames.

Seen @rammuseum.bsky.social, Exeter, Devon

#Art #WomensArt
The Devon coastline seen maybe through two circular windows or maybe reflected in dark sunglasses.
February 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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-Buzz & Hum-
...from the Radical Trivia Series.

#mundane #street #documentary #snapshot
January 27, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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geologytime.bsky.social
Amazing azurite on contrasting dolomite from Touissit, Morocco

Video: Margraf Minerals
February 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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#FindsFriday - a stone, probably from the Lake District, perforated for use as a pendant, found in an #IronAge pit in Suffolk
February 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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🔎 Read this thoughtful essay about how the 'standard account' of the competition between Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi obscures almost as much as it reveals.

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #medievalsky #AdoorableThursday #renaissance

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Revolving doors
The oft-overlooked details of Lorenzo Ghiberti's famous reliefs of the Florentine Baptistery
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February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Whilst we are on the subject of mountains...
Stark monochrome image of low cloud over the darkly shadowed Rhyd Ddu ridge of Yr Wyddfa.
January 22, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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tony-o.bsky.social
For #TombTuesday... Brownshill Dolmen - A colour version
Browneshill Dolmen, Carlow, Ireland
Image: 2023
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #photography #Art #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Carlow
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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I'm seeing a few Welsh sites this #TombTuesday, so to join in here is lovely Carreg Samson on the Pembrokeshire coast. The huge capstone was put in place by St Samson of Dol, using only his little fingernail ...
January 20, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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#standingstonesunday #rudston
January 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Avebury stones in the snow.
#StandingStoneSunday
Avebury stones in the snow. #StandingStoneSunday
January 18, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Only few pieces of furniture from early medieval times have been preserved. Due to the water-logged condition of the area, many wooden objects such as this terrific chair made from maple and ash wood survived in a burial at Trossingen.
Dating 580 AD.

📷 @almbawue.bsky.social

🏺 #archaeology
Full shot of a wooden chair. The chair's back is a made of numerous vertical wooden slats, that are spaced evenly and have small, evenly-spaced pieces attached between each major slat.  The chair's frame is constructed of several interconnected wooden pieces forming a rectangular base.  The chair's seat frame is also made of a slatted design. The leather or fur seat has not survived.
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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A bright, crisp sunrise over Lake Winnipeg this morning. Perfect conditions for a walk.
The bright orange ball of the sun just peeks over the horizon in the mostly clear sky. A small smudge of grey/orange clouds are smeared around the top of the image. The bright orange sunbeams sweep across the enormous snow-covered frozen lake lighting up, the purple coloured snow. A few grasses poke out of the snow in the foreground on the shore.
January 14, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Heather Blanchard is a professional fine art landscape painter based in Scotland. She has been painting for over thirty years and is known for her delicate oil paintings of birds, leaves, and trees silhouetted against the light. She is noted for her keen sense of composition.

Winter Stubble Field
This painting, titled Winter Stubble Field captures a serene winter landscape. A snow-covered stubble field dominates the foreground and middle ground, with distinct curved lines of stubble emerging from the snow. A snowy track leads the viewer's eye into the distance. A dark, dense hedge line runs along the left side, topped by several tall, bare trees with intricate, dark silhouettes against a pale, clear sky.
January 9, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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Where children learn and old lords rest deep in rural England. At St James’s, Somerton, Oxfordshire, village life seems timeless. Here, I was struck by how a transient moment of modern life was left as but a shadow by the tomb chest of Sir Thomas Fermor (d.1580) and his second wife Bridget Bradshaw.
View of a church chapel lit by large windows in which a large tomb chest with effigies can be seen alongside a children’s learning area with a circle of chairs and a small blackboard.
December 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Today is publication day for Salem's Centuries! It is my department's contribution to the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the English settlement of Naumkeag/Salem. My pieces on the Native dispossession of Naumkeag and the work to confirm the execution site on Gallows Hill are included.
January 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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🦉 Relief plaque of a beautiful owl with melancholic eyes in remarkably high relief & other exquisite details, Egypt, 400–30 B.C.

🏛️ Met

🏺 #archaeology #ReliefWednesday #Egypt #owl
Relief plaque of a beautiful owl with melancholic eyes in remarkably high relief & other exquisite details. The plague is made of limestone.
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Friday’s #Scape... Nendrum Monastic Site on Mahee Island, Down, Ireland
Founded by St Machaoi in the 5th Century
#IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Photography #Infrared #Black&White #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #EarlyChristian #Down
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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We only rate dogs. This is very clearly a red panda. We've had just about enough of your tomfoolery. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: __joyjoa)
a front-facing selfie of a small creature that looks identical to a red panda (though to an untrained eye one could mistake them for a pomeranian with red panda coloring). the fluffball is backlit by sunlight, and there is a tree with yellow leaves in the background.
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Megaliths of Callanish VIII overlooking bridge to Great Berneray Island, Isle of Lewis #StandingStoneSunday
September 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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#OTD September 17, 1692 the Court of Oyer & Terminer held its last witchcraft trials in Salem & adjourned. With over a hundred people still in jails awaiting trial, the judges must have assumed another session would take place in October, but the Court of Oyer and Terminer would never meet again.
September 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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aurorabucky.bsky.social
Ozette Triangle, WA State
#Ilford Delta 100 35mm Film, #Kodak Signet 80 (1958), Ektanar 50mm f2.8 lens

#TidesOutTuesday

#filmphotography #photography #filmisnotdead #signet80 #vintagecamera #monochrome #ClassicMono #landscape #cascadia #Ilford #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky
September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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🪬🧿 Draw bridge ahead! #sketching #artwork #drawing #bridge #urban #artist #creative
A man in a black leather jacket is seen from the side, drawing in a sketchbook with a pencil. The drawing depicts a bridge with its central span raised. In the background, an actual bridge of similar design can be seen, partially obscured by trees. Next to the man, a yellow diamond-shaped road sign reads "DRAW BRIDGE AHEAD". The scene is set on a clear day with a blue sky.
September 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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emersonwbaker.bsky.social
#OTD September 15, 1692, Stephen Johnson confirmed his pact with Satan, as well as his love for French fashion: "he was to have of the Devil for his Service...a pair of French fall Shoes"
September 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM