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Michael Larkin
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Australian landscape photographer
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#BlueSkyArtShow #happyfeet ... Adelie #penguins might be #small in size but they're big on personality

#photography #nature #naturephotography #antarctica #wildlife
An Adelie penguin stands alone on an iceberg, his flippers out and his head turned to the side as though he's been caught in the middle of a dance move. It's a crystal clear, sunny day, the sky in the background is cloudless blue and there is a hint of turquoise in the iceberg.
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #evening
Now in the west the colours change,
the blue with crimson blending;
Behind the far Dividing Range,
the sun is fast descending.
- Henry Lawson

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #sunset #bluemountains #sydney #nsw #australia
Ridges layered in dark blue silhouette as the sun has dipped below the horizon. The last of the light illuminates high, wispy clouds in pink, salmon and orange.
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #vertical ... one from the archive ... a #waterfall in a very steep sided valley in the #BlueMountains #NationalPark in #NSW. It was quite late in the day and I was using ISO25 Kodachrome, hence the long exposure ...

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #nature #australia
A waterfall cascades over several rock platforms from the upper left of the image to the bottom right. It is late in the day, so the shadows are deep and the water has blurred like angel hair due to the long exposure. The rock faces are covered in moss and the steep sided gully is filled with ferns and glistening dark emerald vegetation
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #relax ... a weddell #seal, dead to the world, despite the ruckus of passing chinstrap #penguins near Baily Head on Deception Island in the South Shetland #Islands

#photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #antarctica
A weddell seal lies on its back on the volcanic sand beach near Baily Head on Deception Island in the South Shetlands, sound asleep despite the ruckus from chinstrap penguins passing back and forth along the beach
October 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #angles ... cheating a little bit, but another one from me, this time from nature ... this makes me think of the confluence of two rivers. Image made in Hillsdale Meadows, #BanffNationalPark #Canada

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #closeup #snow
Closeup of dried grass and snow, the dried grass forming a y-shape like two rivers joining. The dried grass is a warm golden brown colour and contrasts with the austere whiteness of the snow.
September 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #angles ... the ceramic scales of the #SydneyOperaHouse reflecting some #bluesky and showing off the intricacy Jørn Utzon's amazing creation

#photography #urban #sydney #australia #architecture #patterns
A close up image of the tiles on the exterior of the Sydney Opera House's "sails", showing a series of joins, radiating from the bottom left corner, like the ribs of a fan, and the diamond patterns of the tiles. The tiles are reflective, and the tiles in the upper right half of the image reflect blue sky, while the tiles in the lower left half of the image reflect the off-white of another of the Opera House's "sails".
September 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #texture ... Mount Ishbel in the Sawback range from Hillsdale Meadow along the Bow Valley Parkway in #Banff #NationalParkin #Canada

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #mountain
View of a jagged series of ridges, lightly covered in snow, rising to a peak. In the foreground is a meadow, the grass pale and yellow. At the foot of the mountain is a forest of pines and a row of birches, skeleton like and bare of leaves. The also grow on the ridges of the mountain, but thin out as toward the peak, which is bare, sharp rock. The sky is overcast, promising bad weather, and a band of mist clings to the slopes.
May 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #green

From a visit to #Ireland many years ago (image made on a Rollei 6006!) near Kyelmore Abbey in #Connemarra

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #emeraldisle #stream
A stream flowing through a field of, with lush green grass growing on the banks of the stream. Two boulders protrude from the middle of the water, each with ferns and grass growing on them and there is a wood on far side of the stream. Dark clouds can be seen beyond the tops of the trees, and a rain spots can be seen on the gently flowing water.
May 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow ... the red #earth of central #Australia at Stanley Chasm, also known as Angkerle Atwatye, meaning the Gap of Water, in the West MacDonnell National Park

#photogrpahy #landscape #landscapephotography #northernterritory #outback
The view through the narrow walls of Stanley Chasm, the rock wall on the left is mostly in shadow, while the wall on the right is glowing orange-red. We get a glimpse though the gap of a rocky landscape beyond, with a few gum trees clinging to the rock faces.
April 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Silhouette

Slumbering Giant

#Uluru has an amazing presence in the landscape

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #australia #outback #sunrise
Uluru, in central Australia, in silhouette at dawn. With the sun yet to rise above the horizon, the sky in the background shades from red, through amber, gold and pink to deep indigo
April 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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#kandinsky in an alleyway ... #BlueSkyArtShow #Arch. Discovered wandering around #Vilnius after dinner on a work trip ...

#photography #urban #abstract #Lithuania
An abstract image of a brick wall which is rendered and painted in an off-white colour. In the upper left, the render has been cut away in a square shape, exposing the brickwork underneath, which still bears traces of plaster. The square cutaway intersects with an arch shape that spans the bottom right two thirds of the image. Within the arch is a smaller square where the render has again been cut away, exposing the bricks, this time with no plaster remaining, so they are a darker red-brown colour compared to the bricks visible in the top left. The paint is peeling in the lower right, exposing random shapes of grey cement render.
March 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #TheJourney From the archive: three Adelie #penguins on their way. They are far more agile on land than you expect, and climb icy or rocky slopes that look far beyond them. This trio no doubt have important business to attend to.

#photography #naturephotography #antarctica #wildlife
Three Adelie penguins in single file, their flippers extended for balance, follow a path made by penguin traffic in snow atop an ice field.
March 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Back to #Tasmania ... this is a small #stream near Windy Ridge on the Overland Track ...

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #australia #wilderness
A stream runs through temperate rainforest toward the viewer from the upper right of the image to the lower left. The water is blurred by long exposure as it flows around and over rocks in the stream, and the banks are a jumble of moss and lichen covered boulders and fallen tree trunks.
March 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow From the archive (so please forgive the film grain) ... early morning #sunlight flooding through Gabe's Gap in the #Kanangra Boyd #nationalpark in #NSW. One of those mornings when you could really feel the magic of the new day

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #australia
A ridge line is silhouetted against golden morning light flooding in below a low deck of clouds. The sun is just out of the left side of the image. The ridge itself steps down from the right to a saddle known as Gabe's Gap, and through the gap we can see the outline of the Blue Mountains escarpment in the distance.
March 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #windows ... not normally my thing, but I was drawn to the facade of the Harpa concert hall in #reykjavik, inspired as they are by the columnar basalt so prominent throughout #iceland

#photography #urban #geometric
Detail of the facade of the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, comprised of three dimensional multi sided hexagonal 12 foot high glass bricks stacked in columns, which are inspired by the columnar basalt found throughout Iceland. The varied angles and use of coloured glass create a range of colours from dark blue to pale cyan.
March 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned ... Memories of Migration ... Short-tailed shearwaters annually migrate over 30,000km past Japan and Kamchatka, to the Aleutian Islands, then down the North American coast, before crossing the Pacific back to #Tasmania. Amazing!
#photography #naturephotography #birds
Looking straight down at a short-tailed shearwater feather embedded in the sand of Ocean Beach at Strahan in Tasmania. The feather is a darker brown colour against the sand, and individual filaments can be seen with grains of sand interspersed along the length of the feather's shaft.
February 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #monochrome Blizzard at Hudson Bay #canada, with a few flag trees holding on in the face of the onslaught.

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #minimalism #arctic
A clump of small black spruce trees in the foreground face into a blizzard. The scene is almost a white-out, although there is a second row of trees visible in the distance, fading into the blowing ice and snow. Some of the trees - known as flag trees or krummholz - are stunted by the wind, with branches only on one size, being the one facing away from the prevailing wind.
February 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #reflections ... good morning from Melbourne ... one from the archive, smoke reflected in the calm waters of the Great Sandy Straight between Maryborough and K'gari (Fraser Island) #queensland #australia #sunset #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #minimalism
A ribbon of smoke is reflected in the waters of Great Sandy Strait, the sky above it a pale blue, while below it the gold of late afternoon sun lights up the horizon. It is low tide, and a triangular point of land juts out into the water, with a channel marker just visible where it meets the water, and a yacht can be seen on the horizon with its sails furled.
February 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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After 3 days of blizzard and rain on the Overland Track, the sun finally made an appearance once we got to Pelion Plains, lighting up the button grass and providing a wonderful contrast to the brooding Mt Oakleigh in the background.
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #Tasmania
A lichen covered boulder in the foreground is surrounded by button grass tussocks lit by the afternoon sun. The middle ground is in shadow, the ground rising gently to the dark and brooding grey dolerite columns of flat topped Mount Oakleigh at the horizon.
February 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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More #Tasmania - the Western Arthur #mountain range on the horizon, seen here from the southern end of Lake Pedder. The Western Arthurs traverse is a fabled (and incredibly demanding) multi-day hike in the middle of Tassie's southwest #wilderness.
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape
A range of mountains spans the horizon, blue in the distance. In the foreground is a lichen covered boulder, its sharp outline reminiscent of the mountains. In between are expanses of button grass, green-gold in the late afternoon sun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Solomon's Throne in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park in the #Tasmania #wilderness world heritage area.
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #wilderness
Looking across small glacial tarns fringed by cushion plants toward a stand of pencil pines with the flat topped dolerite columnar peak known as Solomon's Throne behind. Patches of blue sky can be seen through the clouds and reflected in the water.
January 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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This is Singlebend on the Styx River in #Tasmania. The Styx Valley is home to some of the largest hardwood #trees on earth. #Eucalyptus regnans, known as mountain ash or swamp gum, can grow to over 100m tall and live up to 400 years.
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #wilderness
Image of a slow flowing river, the water stained a dark tea colour by tannins, with a large fallen tree trunk projecting out into the flow across a coarse shingle shore. The far bank of the river is a wall of tree ferns and dense vegetation.
January 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Back to #Tasmania, trying for a different perspective on Cradle #Mountain, this is Weindorfer's Tower receding into the #mist as seen from from Lake Wilks
#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #texture
The image shows a rockface composed of dolerite columns at Weindorfer's Tower in the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania, the lichen, jointing and sparse vegetation creating a sense of texture, while behind the main rockface the ridge line and further craggy peaks recede into the mist.
December 29, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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Wishing everyone peaceful and restorative holiday break and may we carry beauty and calmness with us in 2025.
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #sunset #trees #serenity
A mangrove tree is silhouetted against the afterglow following sunset, the sky shading from deep blue, through mauve, lilac and salmon to a fiery orange at the horizon, with the colours reflected in the mirror still water.
December 24, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Study in #Blue. A different #lake - this time Lake Pedder from Scott's Peak Dam in Southwest National Park, #Tasmania.
#landscape #landscapephotography #photography #reflections
A blue sky with wisps of cloud, along with a series of ridges, blue in the distance, are reflected in a mostly still Lake Pedder.
December 7, 2024 at 11:40 AM