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green day - sunlight through vertical blinds . . .

#photography #Saturday #shadows

sunlight seeps through these green vertical blinds . . .

November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM

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it's my mum's birthday today.
she was a very talented lady and is much missed.
here's one of her needlework samples . . .

#photography #needlework #blackandwhite
#embroidery #sewing #craft #BonfireNight

a needlework sample with a selection of black stitch designs . . .

November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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visiting Jim is just not the same nowadays . . .

#photography mine 2018 #TheDoors
#cemetery #musicsky #Paris

the grave of Jim Morrison (The Doors) in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France covered with colourful floral tributes. Access has been restricted in recent years and the visiting public now have to pay their respects from behind metal fencing . . .

November 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM

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yay bluesky . . !

anyone wanna buy my book? I worked really hard on it . . .

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October 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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night window . . .

#photography

a view through a window at night with pot plants, old bottles and a clock on a green wall . . .

October 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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the same place in October 1987 after the Great Storm when it was a cinema showing Beverley Hills Cop II, La Bamba, Full Metal Jacket and The Hunt for Red October . . .

#photography 📷mine #Brighton
#architecture #artdeco #cinemas
#filmsky #moviesky

the art deco Cannon Cinema in Brighton, East Sussex, UK after the Great Storm of 1987 which jumbled up the letters of the movies Beverley Hills Cop II, La Bamba, Full Metal Jacket, The Hunt for Red October . . .

October 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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my fictionalized travelogue novel is now available in the Kindle Store for anyone brave enough to take the trip . . .

#WritingCommunity #BookSky 💙📚👀
#TravelWriting #RoadTripUSA #Route66
#ScienceFiction #dystopian #photography
#literaryfiction #SpeculativeFiction #RoadTrip

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Driving to a Funeral book cover depicting a damaged diesel pump on a gas station forecourt photographed by the author in Wyoming, USA in 2016 . . .

September 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM

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today I have mainly been wearing . . .

#photography #shoes #Converse

a pair of blue denim Converse Chuck Taylor All Star High-Top trainers shoes that are getting old and fraying at the edges - like their owner . . !

September 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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September 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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September 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM

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we've come a long way but not far enough - nine years ago today at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC . . .

#photography #USA #WashingtonDC #museums
#protest #badges #RoadTrip #equality #landrights

and my last day before flying home . . .

a display of pin badges depicting various campaigns for equality on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC - photo taken nine years ago today . . .

September 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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the red peppers are coming thick and fast now that summer is over. these are for the freezer as there are more ripening in the greenhouse. grow your own food people . . .

#photography #organic #fruitandveg #harvest
#foodmiles #sustainability #plantsky #gardening
#UKgardening #gardensky

four organic red peppers on a red and white checked tea towel waiting to be prepped for the freezer . . .

September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM

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Erin and Elizabeth at the quirky Walton's Mountain Museum in Schuyler, VA - nine years ago today . . .

#photography #USA #RoadTrip #Virginia
#TheWaltons #TVshows #MemoryLane
#PortraitPainting #museum #art

a colourful painting of Erin and Elizabeth from The Waltons TV series with reflected strip lights as if emanating from their eyes . . .

September 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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162 cast pâté de verre bottles on a steel shelf by Page Hazlegrove (1956-1997) - nine years ago today in the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA . . .

#photography #USA #RoadTrip #Virginia
#artsky #sculpturesky #art #sculpture #museum

162 colourful Pate de Verre (glass paste) bottles arranged on a steel shelf in the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, nine years ago today by the American artist Page Hazlegrove . . .

September 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Dr Who's Tardis spotted in Tacoma, VA - nine years ago today . . .

#photography #USA #Virginia #RoadTrip
#DrWho #Tardis #OnTheRoad #frontporch

red-roofed house with covered porch with chairs and a blue replica Dr Who police box Tardis surrounded by gnomes and other garden ornaments and a flag celebrating Autumn Blessings with pumpkin design spotted on the outskirts of Tacoma, Virginia, USA nine years ago today . . .

covered porch with blue replica Dr Who police telephone box Tardis and garden ornaments spotted on the outskirts of Tacoma, Virginia, USA, nine years ago today . . .

September 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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The Great Woodworm Lakes . . .

#photography #timber #veneer

a sheet of wood veneer that has been eaten by woodworm leaving what resembles lakes and connecting rivers - laid on a blue cloth for added texture and colour . . .

September 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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kudzu corner - nine years ago today in deepest Kentucky . . .

#photography #USA #Kentucky #RoadTrip
#landscapephotography #plants #PlantSky
#Invasiveplant 🌱sky 🥬🌳🌲 #bluesky

the roadsides and electricity poles in this corner of rural Kentucky, USA are covered in the invasive non-native creeping kudzu plant vine . . .

September 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM

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done for the day in Winner, SD - nine years ago today . . .

#photography #USA #SouthDakota
#RoadTrip #OnTheRoad #Hopper
#Pepsi #NightPhotography #AmericanDream
#Trucks #carsky #mechanic #evening

an auto-mechanic workshop garage closed up for the night but lit with strip lighting illuminating a rack of tyres, spare parts, tools and a Chevrolet pickup truck. The sign reads Anderson Repairs and a Pepsi vending machine stands outside . . .

September 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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says it all really - nine years ago today . . .

#photography #USA #Colorado #RoadTrip
#OnTheRoad #ContinentalDivide
#LandscapePhotography #selfie
#selfportrait #TravelPhotography

man with beard and glasses wearing a blue top sitting by the sign for Independence Pass Elevation 12,095 feet Continental Divide in Colorado, USA with a small lake behind and mountains and clouds in the distance . . .

September 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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nine years ago today I found a quiet spot on a crowded planet in Sweetwater Co, WY-430 . . .

#photography #USA #Wyoming #RoadTrip
#OnTheRoad #LandscapePhotography
#MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness

fallen rocks and boulders at the foot of a cliff face next to a backroad in rural Wyoming, USA with low scrub and sandy soil . . .

September 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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drifting through Wyoming - nine years ago today . . .

#photography #landscapephotography
#USA #RoadTrip #Wyoming #OnTheRoad
#farming #ranch #backroads #wilderness

a wooden fence designed to reduce snow accumulation stretches into the distance across grassland in Wyoming, USA

September 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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never been able to fathom what danger these two idiots thought they might encounter visiting Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Terrorists? Grizzly bears? Or did they just want to be noticed? Yep, we can see them! Nine years ago today . . .
#photography #guncontrol #RoadTrip