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scratchedelement.bsky.social
Scratched Element
@scratchedelement.bsky.social
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🏚️So, you've come back.
🫂I'm so glad you could join me,
🚦That little voice in your head.
👁️Replace your eyes with mine and
🏭I'll show you how things really are.

Original photography daily 📍 Grand Rapids, MI
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Scratched Element @scratchedelement.bsky.social · May 23
Now I'm not just in your walls, I'm on them too. You can now buy prints of my work.
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High quality museum grade 100% cotton paper, as well as high contrast metal and framed shots, shipped straight to you. 🫵
Prices are low now, but act fast because nothing lasts forever. 👁️
A selection of varied and beautiful art for your loyal consumption
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Let's go treasure hunting, what do you say? Everyone knows that they keep the good stuff behind the gate. #photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #rustbelt #michigan #midwest
A misty street at night under the warm glow of artificial light. It's very quiet. An empty road bordered by trees and single level structures. A sign indicates that a stop sign is ahead. Two orange flags are affixed to it in an attempt to steal your attention. An industrial building with a large brick smoke stack. It's after hours so there's no one here.
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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quitestudios.com
Schuylkill Mall planter from my visit in August of 2017 with a great sense of impending doom lurking just beyond the concourse. This Crown American legend was demolished shortly after my visit. Full video and Epilogue amidst the demolition here:
youtube.com/sal

#deadmall #abandoned #liminalspace
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 It took too many years for you to find me. Someone should be ashamed but I'm not sure who. Maybe you can help me figure that out. This blame is burning a hole in my pocket and it deserves to be kicked over to someone else. #photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
An empty semi-rural two lane road at night. A light mist hangs in the air.
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 I used to make fun of all the people who got lost in here. Now I'm lost too. Jokes on me, I guess. No one would ever get lost again if they just cut all of this down, blended it to bits and burned it. Well, if you want a job done right... #photography #art #abstract #longexposure
A flash photo of leaves. The background twists until it's not recognizable anymore. A flash photo of the underside of a tree canopy. It's impossible to know your bearings. A flash photo of a branch. No one will find us here. A photo of two trees. Reality spins.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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my-liquid-head.bsky.social
Expect more power lines and barbed wire shots from me as we head into winter.

#BlueSkyMonday #infrared #photography #cloud
Power lines and a pole standing above the trees. The sky is deep blue with some white clouds.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 The well on their side has run dry
Envious eyes peer over the divide
A hand reaches out, asking for charity
But we both know what will happen if we extend our generosity
Kiss your arm goodbye
#photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace
A young tree peers over a set of fences. It's dark except for the light illuminating their side.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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emperorwilson.bsky.social
Tower at Elitch Gardens, Denver. Multiple-exposure negative scan.
#filmphotography #abstract #surreal #film #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #analog #photography
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 When we locked eyes while we were out
I averted my gaze but you did not
My attention drawn to losing your attention
But you made a bee line for me
I had fallen for the oldest trick in the book
Here comes the shark's fin
#photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #rustbelt #michigan
A three way intersection at night. The faint glow of a distant city. A locked gate. There's no reason to go beyond it anyway.
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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huefey.bsky.social
Blue #photo
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 When heaven sent you everything changed
A fixation formed, inescapable
You replaced my core, my every thought
Every room upstairs taken up by your clutter
It's too bad that only now I realize
After all of the destruction
Where you were really sent from
#photography #art #nightphotography #poetry
A hazy suburban back alley at night. There's no reason to be here right now.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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aliceferox.bsky.social
I Don't Feel Well

#photography #glitchart #glitchcore #glitchaesthetic #digitalart #digitalcollage #photomanipulation #cerebral
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Never forget who birthed you
A little show of gratitude would be nice
From time to time
Are you even thinking about me?
All of that work, for this?
Could you be the only thing
That I was wrong about?
#photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #rainynight
A flash photo of the side of a suburbsn street in the rain at night. A stop sign is illuminated so brightly that it can barely be seen.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Something precious is floating away on the wind
All you can do is watch it
As it drifts
And hope that it'll come home again some day
It won't
#photography #art #streetphotography #liminalspace #nightphotography #urbanphotography #nikon
An empty street at night bordered by a dark park and abandoned businesses stretches into the distance. Lights all along the way.
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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mixolumia.com
someday they're gonna bury all these wires and the whole country's aesthetic is gonna shift
Photo of utility pole in japan with a web of wires branching in all directions
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Shelter?
A precious gift is being given to you for free
And you want to shield yourself from it?
No.
Turn your head up and let it soak into you
Until you're saturated and heavy
Some day you'll understand
How important it is
To bear the weight
#photography #art #nightphotography #rainynight
Rain pours on a utility pole with three transformers. It provides very poor shelter from the shower.
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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image3studio.bsky.social
A night walk in the mist. #Photo #B&W #art
A black and white night photo of low lying mist caused by rain at the peak Mount Tabor, Portland, OR against illuminated by 3 pole lights back lighting surrounding trees.
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 The mouse fears the cat
The cat fears the wolf
The wolf fears Man
Man fears the world he's created
#photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace
A bright light glows behind a railroad crossing signal, its rays illuminating dense fog that surrounds everything. Perfectly straight cables branch off of a utility pole which also provides the backlight. Do not cross.
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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matthphotography.bsky.social
Recycled sunrise photos because my camera is messed up
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 Look up. Open wide. Feel it on your tongue. The acid rains, a generous gift from them. Let its tang take you over. Such intense flavors remind us that we're still alive. #photography #art #nightphotography #liminalspace #rustbelt #michigan #midwest #lightroom
A twin light in a parking lot in the rain at night. One of many, most of them unseen.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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atlasboscrispa.bsky.social
Doom City (b.1930)
Port Huron, St Clair County Michigan.

#photography #architecture #craftsman #oldbuildings #houses #neighborhood #urban #trees #snow #nightphotography #porthuron #stclair #michigan
An icy green craftsman-style house at night with a tall tree in front of it. The image is tinted purple with a white vignette.
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 There are more of us than you could possibly imagine
In the air, in your lungs, under your feet
And when the time comes
We will be there to defend you
However poorly we were treated
Because we love you, you monster
#photography #art #nightphotography
A light illuminating wires going to who knows where
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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gorl.gay
f r a m k e
frankie, my tabby, sitting up against the wall next to a lime green and yellow light. the light is casting a cool looking shadow of her on the wall.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 When the terror strikes
You can run
But as long as their occultor stands
The shadow will be waiting for you
And when it ensnares you
True darkness will reveal itself
Darker than dark
#photography #art #moody #liminalspace #nightphotography #horror #midwest
The shadow of a diamond shaped street sign imposed on a sidewalk and bordering backyard fence at night. A driveway basketball hoop and its shadow which is projected on to a garage door by a nearby streetlight. Across the street a shadow grows from a utility pole on the other side of the road. Another, parallel to it, comes from an unknown source. A particularly tall utility pole in a suburban American neighborhood at night.
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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bardicroots.me
Some photos I took that I like
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
scratchedelement.bsky.social
📷📸 I am thankful every day
That you don't remember what happened here
Why don't we go home now?
Better times are waiting for us there
#photography #art #liminalspace #nightphotography
A suburban house with an American flag on a pole in the front yard. It's dark. There are no lights but your own.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM