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ONLY AN EYE, BUT MY GOD WHAT AN EYE!

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is the photo I'm known for *over there*- Capel Rhiw in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

"I waited 18 months to photograph this scene, after spotting it in March last year and not having the right lens with me. Blaenau Ffestiniog on Sunday."

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 7h

So pleased to donate Beacons Cymru 10% of the Valleys book money- £1325! Overseen by one of my oldest pals Simon Griffiths, Beacons Cymru is Wales’ leading music talent development organisation, working with young people to shape the future of music. Based in Treorchy!

Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 9h

Some from the lovely St Michael & All Angels', Llanfihangel Rogiet, Monmouthshire
@friendlesschurches.bsky.social

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chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 17h

Say @jonpountney1.bsky.social that’s a nice bit of work!

Jon Pountney’s photo book ‘Valleys’ - full cover view

Jon Pountney’s photo book ‘Valleys’ - centre spread view

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 17h

Ah thank you!

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 3d

Quite a few of you have asked what paintings I have for sale at the moment, after my talk a couple of weeks ago. Here are a few, all based in St Ives. Comment if interested!

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds amazing! He was born in my street

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😂😂😂

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas,
94.3 × 84.5 cm (37 1/8 × 33 1/4 in.), Art Institute of Chicago

"Morris Kantor drew inspiration from the material culture of historical New England—ladder-back chairs, colonial portraiture, marine painting, wallpaper—in this fantastical rendering of a supposedly haunted house in rural Massachusetts. A shadowy figure lurks at the composition’s darkened right edge, an unknown presence encroaching on the comforts of the sitting room. Kantor later recalled that such a setting, with “its peculiar moldy smell, the fading beauty of old plaster discolored by time and living … turned my imagination to the past, to the people who had lived there and gone.” A Russian immigrant, the artist engaged with the stories and objects of American history as catalysts for his Surrealist, dreamlike musings." -AIC

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 1d

This is Reform's only Senedd Member Laura Anne Jones.

She is very angry about the Wales' Nation of Sanctuary that mainly supports Ukrainian refugees.

However she didn't always feel this way. Here are two speeches she has given where she says opposite things.

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 2d

Georgia O'Keeffe by Arnold Newman

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 2d

thanks Dan!

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 8d

Experimental double exposures on my grandfather's Voigtländer camera for an upcoming project with Patrick Jones

Up at Eglwysilan, the best place

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 3d

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 3d

Quite a few of you have asked what paintings I have for sale at the moment, after my talk a couple of weeks ago. Here are a few, all based in St Ives. Comment if interested!

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 3d

We're looking into a second edition!

Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 3d

Almost certainly all gone- looking at some kind go second edition!

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Miss Charles V @misscharlesv.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely delighted to receive this by @jonpountney1.bsky.social beautiful 🤩 #photography #wales

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 3d

Ah fab!!

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Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · 3d

As someone whose activism (and life) was infiltrated by undercover #SpyCops I can’t think of anyone better than Common/Wealth Theatre to make theatre from the story of this scandal.
On next week - get your tickets here: commonwealththeatre.co.uk/shows/demand...

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 4d

Julian Trevelyan, Rowers, 1972
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1115050

Presented by Waddington Galleries through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 5d

Been such an honour to watch the highly skilled cast and crew of Common Wealth Theatre putting their new show together; 'Demand the Impossible'. Immersive and shocking, it deals with police corruption and the infiltration of activism. Get tickets!!

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 4d

If you like photography and aren’t already following Jon @jonpountney1.bsky.social you’re in for a treat such an eye!
His new #photobook is superb!
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs - Ansel Adams

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 4d

Ah thanks mate!

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 8d

Some more of my own favourites of my paintings

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