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Shadow Parallax
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I ❤️ this cosmos: its diversity, danger, beauty, & wonder.🌜🌎🙆🌿🐝🌞
Curious, open-critical-creative 🧠&🫀
Photography dabbler 📷 poet? new- cellist pontificator tinkerer lover naive realist ♐️

Photos 👁 & writings 🪶are mine or are credited
Be Kind to One Another ☯️
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From #Roma #Italia and #Rome #Italy ☺️ for the #BlueskyArtShow #Glow theme.

#photography #goldenhour #photograph #Photo #art
#bird #architechture
Golden hour sunset in Rome, Italy halos a domed building and glows warmly through the windows as a bird in flight is silhouetted above the shadowy umbrella pines along the horizon.
October 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow

#Abandoned are we
There is no surrender here
Wild, abandoned life

And a #haiku #poem to boot!

Rise up, and find your tribe
They are out there
We are here
shadow-parallax.bsky.social Shadow Parallax @shadow-parallax.bsky.social · Dec 10
I am curious. What feelings or thoughts does this image evoke in you?

#photography #art #fineart #photo #photographer #psychology
The top half of a mannequin lies on the floor in a cool dark room in the light cast from a large round window on the wall to above it.
February 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow

Feeling #Abandoned ?
You are not alone and just being you is enough.
shadow-parallax.bsky.social Shadow Parallax @shadow-parallax.bsky.social · Dec 17
This sign caught my eye as a sad but perhaps poetic or ironic state of health; mental health on the forefront of my mind as I saw this.

988: US suicide & crisis lifeline

#photography #streetphotography
#photo #mentalhealth
#urbex #urbexphotography
#photographer
“Clinic” sign that is dilapidated and on the ground, worn from the environment, with overgrown grass. Muted color tone style.
February 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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‘The Pensive Man’

without thought
inward aimed
are we naught
beasts unnamed
seek ye thy mind
find thee thy soul
shy from the same
consequence wrought

#photography #photo #art
#selfportrait #blackandwhite #monochrome
#artisticnude
#nudephotography
#nude #malenude #naturist
#poem #poetry #poet
Black and white photo of a man, bare, in a chai, head turned and resting on his hand a soft look upon his face, facing curtain covered window, white with light as shadows and light from the folds of the curtain are cast upon his body.
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Danger umbrella
Weathering the storms of life
Lest blown inside out

#haiku #poetry
#philosophy

#BlueSkyArtShow
#photography #art

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekDforDanger

Kandahar, Afghanistan
16:9 ish frame of a worn, weathered concrete barrier, rebar loops at the top for placing it. On it, from left to right are spray-painted: in black stencil “SECTOR”, just below, staggered-right in blue stencil style different from the first “RAGG”, free-hand in black and taking about the same size as the previous two stencils combined is a numeral four “4” and finally a green stenciled icon for a man, that is, a circle head, rectangle body, blocky appendages with one arm raised holding an umbrella. Directly above the umbrella, in the same stencil-style, is a bomb pointed downward and plume trailing behind, above it indicating it’s falling motion.
January 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Woke to winter wonders
And the snow capped birdbath helps me slip into the #alphabetchallenge #WeekBforBB ☺️

The birds were busy at the feeder and the chirps and flutter of their wings made this quiet morning so alive! 🐦🪶

#photography #photo #art
#mobilephotography
January 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Morning reflections

A golden opportunity
Reflecting inward
Prospecting outward
at the time, the space, the people ahead
& the moments behind
In so doing,
live in every moment

#photography #photo #art
#nudephotography #artisticnude #nude #malenude #naturist
#portrait #selfportrait
#poem #philosophy
January 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The last pic I took in 2024 is quite #poetic, #philosophy, #photography.

Don’t forget to turn around and look behind, you never know how you’ll see things once you’re past them.

I happened to look back and nature served up the warm colors and dark background in #ColonialWilliamsburg. No edits
The Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA courthouse warmly lit from a setting sun with dark storm clouds filling the sky in contrast.
January 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Reminiscent of optical illusions of false walls, I just loved how this view in #Rome #Roma #Italy #Italia snuck up on me with the warmth of colors and peek of greenery, with the correct angle.

#WeekAforAngles #AlphabetChallenge
#photography #streetphotography
#urbanphotography
#architecture
December 30, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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A beautiful morning in #Rome, #Italy - #Roma #Italia. Walking back from Trevi, the #Colosseum #Colosseo crests the hill of #ViadeiForiImperiali lined with the #StonePine
, #PinusPinea.

A very peaceful memory.

#photography #Streetphotography #photo
#history #Architecture #trees #birds #sunrise
December 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Many decades ago with a #pointandshoot jpeg format, maybe my first digital camera.

I ran out of room for tags after a long winded #poem add-on below, so here it is again for the
#alphabetchallenge #WeekZforZoom
#photography #selfportrait #photo #phtographer #candlelight #eye #art?
…,(Closeup), a frame filled, in the top 2/3 of the frame and set to the right half, The photographer’s eye, blue, a single point of light on the bottom edge of the pupil from a wide, uneven-edged cylinder of a candle, aglow from the sunken flame. The remaining portion of the frame, 1/4 in the top left is dark, and its shadows wrap around the side of a man’s face, (Closeup),…
December 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Alight, alight
to the world
with delight
Anew, anew
see the world
with a view
which is Free
no more binding
it is truth
we’re now finding
Light your way
with a courage
No dismay
Not discouraged
A path blazed
that will build you
Walls now razed
Shall reveal…

…You…
I see
December 23, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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I resolve to post work that I have made but wish were better. heavy handed editing by a novice, shot in jpeg and not raw… it is ok, I have seen and I want to share.. and I also want to grow.
I can be vulnerable. Art is my soul and that’s difficult to offer others. I am resolved.
December 23, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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This sign caught my eye as a sad but perhaps poetic or ironic state of health; mental health on the forefront of my mind as I saw this.

988: US suicide & crisis lifeline

#photography #streetphotography
#photo #mentalhealth
#urbex #urbexphotography
#photographer
“Clinic” sign that is dilapidated and on the ground, worn from the environment, with overgrown grass. Muted color tone style.
December 17, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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This was so easy to make & yummy makes way for delectable ..

Make with a partner, savor together, and this may be foreplay!

#alphabetchallenge
#WeekYforYummy
#photography #foodphotography #photo
#chef #cook
#food #foodie #grilledcheese
#blackberries #honey #brie #sourdough
#recipe in comments
December 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Vacationing in Rome, I was up early and headed to see Trevi Fountain without the crowds.

Along the way, I found reflections of Fibonacci and a lone traveler braving the early hour.

#photography #streetphotography #photo
#blackandwhite #bnwphotography
#Fibonacci
#italy #italia #rome #roma
December 12, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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We are not all light
Nor all darkness are we, too
Embrace your shadows
——————

Taken in the morning light, as it crept through the front door window. The various patterns caught me eye.

#photography #selfportrait #photo
#shadow #light #dark
#fineartnude #artisticnudephoto
#nsfw (ish) #nude #naked
December 11, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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I am curious. What feelings or thoughts does this image evoke in you?

#photography #art #fineart #photo #photographer #psychology
The top half of a mannequin lies on the floor in a cool dark room in the light cast from a large round window on the wall to above it.
December 10, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Wake up.
Be curious.
Feed your mind.
Free your body.
Fill your soul.

#nudephotography
#nudeart
#nude
#nudemodel
#artnude
#fineartnude
#art
#photography
#sensual
#nudeartphotography
#fineart
#portrait
#selfportrait
#naked
#artisticnude
#nudephoto
#fineartphotography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
Silver monochrome tone picture of a kitchen, a man, bare, holds open a refrigerator door, head hidden behind it as he peers inside.
December 3, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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the sky is far from silent
it's the only conversation
my soul needs
December 3, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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Once upon a time
Were modest steeds of steel
Riders no more astride
Dust gathers on their wheel

-gravel dust settled on bicycles in Kandahar province, a time not well remembered, but for the people there; and not-

#alphabetchallenge
#WeekWforWhite
#photography
#streetphotography
#bicycles
Bicycles at a bike rack on gravel. The bikes are covered completely in white gravel dust, unridden for quite some time.
December 3, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Lucid lake at the #ChihulyGardenandGlass
#Seattle #Washington

#alphabetchallenge
#WeekVforVibrant

#photography
#photo
#chihuly #glass
#color
Boat filled with vibrantly colored shapes of glass by Chihuly on a mirrored black surface resembling still waters at night.
November 25, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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Often, wandering through life, the orientation of things, colors, light, just catch your attention.
Visiting Rome, one is immersed in history around every turn, with every step.
This moment just caught my eye.

#photography #streetphotography #statues
#italia #roma #italy #rome #travel
November 22, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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TW: dark poem skip to pic

——————-

This metal shroom
Viewed from below
an eerie bloom,
unnatural glow.
Mycelium
feed to the top.
Spores, we see them
start to drop
At first a few, slow,
faster, more…or..
as it dawns, oh
no, the horror

#alphabetchallenge
#WeekUforUnder
#photography #poetry
Seattle needle viewed from below, alight and white against a stark black sky. Underside of the platform on top has fins, and resembles a capped mushroom.
November 20, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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#alphabetchallenge
#weekUforUnder
#photography
#italoa #italy #roma #rome

Under his eye
His gaze,
his fi…at will be free
Come out
Climb up
From under
Thee
Break through
That
which binds
And see
Look not
upon a myth
Accept the chaos
Truth
one finds
Cosmos revealed
Through haze
Under the sky
November 19, 2024 at 3:58 AM