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Exiled ancient Brit engineer living amongst horse carts and shoofly pies; conduit for creatives' dreams, explorer of edge cases, disciple of scale, envoy of the backend

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · Apr 9
When I am not at work, I try (although this year...) to maintain my sanity by wandering around with a camera, taking bad photos at random.

For those who need help sleeping, more can be found over at www.flickr.com/photos/shynd...

Feel free to use and abuse, but an attribution wouldn't go amiss.
Plastic multipoint 3d star lamp suspended on a black background, diffuse orange light filling it Young child crouched down digging in the yard with a trowel Sunset over Prettyboy Reservoir in Northern Maryland, trees line the right hand edge, with a vivd sky reflected in the still waters Marged HDR surreal effect on a parked aircraft at York Airport, PA
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Busy day, so apologies if I have been less responsive and not posting so much; would probably the last yellow rose from me this year be an acceptable apology?

#Photography #ColorADay #YellowThu #BloomScrolling #Flowers
Color photograph of a yellow rose, center yet to fully unfurl, so looking very caulifloweresque; taken at Hershey Gardens, PA in late October 2025
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I tend to do a lot of ducks and one of my favorite, cleanest, sharpest duck I happened to post for the theme recently, so .... digging back to earlier last year, not long after I picked up a camera again ... not sharp, but cute

#Photography #DucksOutOfWater #BirdOfTheDay #Wildlife #Ducklings
Color photograph of three ducklings crossing a path at the edge of an urban lake to make their way back into the water
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Must be time for another glance at the changing leaves before they are all gone; this week's winds have tried hard to accomplish it, but sheltered valleys where this shot came from ... not so much

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay #YellowThu #FallFoliage
Color photograph from south central Pennsylvania of tall slender trees with leaves of blazing yellow and amber, and a small cluster of greenery in the center.
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Those with a need ... a need ... for speed are not just the teens and young adults; the adrenaline craving goes way beyond age boundaries as this "youngster" on Lake Charles demonstrated.

#Photography #HumansOfBlueSky #ColorADay #YellowThu #SensoryArt #Loud
Color photograph of a not particularly youthful bald man, semi-crouched in "biker" stance atop a large fast jet ski (Sea Doo) traveling at high speed across Lake Charles, PA kicking up a large spray wake behind
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Time for me to be away, for the day, but before I go, a few conventional #WindowsOnWednesday in the form of those upon the historic roller mill, grain elevator and warehouse at Muddy Creek Forks Historic District, all dating back to the beginning of the 1900s or earlier.

#Photography #Landscape
Color photograph of, from left to right, the fertiilizer warehouse, grain elevator and roller mill at Muddy Creek Forks Historic District. Beyond them on the right of the frame, the rebuilt General Store which also serves as the station for the Ma and Pa Railroad these days. Behind them all, trees wearing fall browns and oranges beneath a blue sky
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Slightly different take on #WindowsOnWednesday, not those on a building, but the cluster of 19 glazed sections of the stranded C97 "Angel of Deliverance" cockpit. Look to the wing on the right, and the space where one of its engines should be can be seen.

#Photography #ColorADay #RedWed #Aviation
Peeking through the fence, beyond the red barriers to the tall red tail of the Berlin Airlift Historic Foundation's C97G "Angel of Deliverance", the world's last airworthy example, on the pan at Reading's Mid-Atlantic Air Museum awaiting an engine replacement/repair
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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For those who've seen Winter's Bone, yeah ... its that soul sucking oppressive grey skybox in place atm, so going to reach out for a vibrant red rose shot from a month or so ago on this #RedWed.

#Photography #ColorADay #BloomScrolling #Flowers #EastCoastKin
Color close up of a red rose bloom, heavy dark vignette applied. Shot at Hershey Gardens, October 2025
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Today has been cold and grey, and guaranteed to be the first really chilly night as, of course, its the one where my furnace failed to light.

Bring back the #BlueTue of a week ago; as seen from the aptly named Blue Rock looking out at Rookery Island.

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay
Color photograph of the kayak and bird friendly lee side of Rookery Island on the Susquehanna and its fall colored trees, beneath a near cloudless sky
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Hopefully this doesn't trigger any recent pumpkin traumatic stress disorder in anyone, but diving a month back for today's art challenge and a piece for #AnimalArtTuesday in the form of this wonderful butterfly bench.

#Photography
Color photograph of a metal (copper/bronze?) bench in the shape of a butterfly, with seat at the mid wing position; metal oxidized and numerous cutouts where colors on the wings might be. Alongside it, straw bales, with pumpkins in oranges and white.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Mischief and Infamy

A summer evening peek for #PinkMon, the delicate riverside form of loosestrife, an invasive plant here. In the background, the towers of Unit 1, maybe resurrected for data center use ... and the infamous Unit 2, of Three Mile Island.

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay
Color photo along the riverbank of the Susquehanna, downstream from Middletown, with delicate purple loosestrife in the foreground with half of the rest of the image containing blurred greenery; in the background the towers of Unit 1, maybe resurrected for data center use ... and the infamous Unit 2, of Three Mile Island, against a blue sky with cloud banks on the horizon
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Cool, grey day here today; not conducive weather for these beautiful heliconius butterflies, who are used to sunnier climes and thankfully nice and warm inside Hershey's atrium.

#Photography #Wildlife #Insects #MacroMonday
Color close up photograph of a heliconius butterfly, postman perhaps; thin wide wingspan, with a black base, red central section and white eyes/stripes a third from the tips.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Bit of crossover with the #birding folks for this #BlueSkyMonday. Folks were quizzing me about the egret and night herons back in the spring, and this 'urban lake' that I said I would see them at. Well, here's a little picture of the spot; Kiwanis Lake, in suburban York City, PA.

#Photography
Color photograph of Kiwanis Lake, quiet and deserted looking now, but come spring; different matter. The island in the center tends to get a lot of night herons hanging out, and those conifers beyond it, play home to the egrets
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Your art challenge cheat sheet for Nov 10–16!

UPDATE: #HolidayRobin for daily robins

Host list + posts from them in the comments

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt
Art Challenges: November 10–16 Monday, November 10 #BlueSkyMonday (anything blue) #MacroMonday (any macro) #MountainMonday (mountains) #MinimalMonday (minimalism) #ColorADay (#PinkMon) #NightmareNov (#horrific) Tuesday, November 11 #RockinTuesday (rocks) #TidesOutTuesday #TagTuesday (graffiti/street art) #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay (#BlueTue or #CyanTue) #NightmareNov (#claws) Wednesday, November 12 #WaterfallWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #WackyWednesdayArt (odd/unusual) #WallsOnWednesday #ColorADay (#RedWed) #NightmareNov (#blue) Thursday, November 13 #HumansOfBlueSky (people) #UrbanGaze (anything urban) #PalacesAndGardens (#BotanicalWonders) #ColorADay (#YellowThu) #NightmareNov (#unnatural) Friday, November 14 #scape (any kind of scape) #FishyFriday #ForestFriday #FoodOnFriday #FlyDay (critters that fly) #ColorADay (#BWFri) #NightmareNov (#cosmic) Saturday, November 15 #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#GreenSat) #BlueSkyArtShow (#bright) #NightmareNov (#pain) Sunday, November 16 #Stunday (stunning) #ImageAndVerse (photos with poems written by you or anyone) #BNWmacro #ColorADay (#OrangeSun) #SelfPortraitSunday (#LighInTheDark) #NightmareNov (#grotesque) ALL WEEK #ArtYear (any art) #ArtOfSelfPortraiture #BirdOfTheDay (see Alan H or Rob Crank for daily prompt) #ClassicMono (monochrome) #FestiveDailyRobin (robin pics through December 31) #smArtist (purposeful art) #AlphabetChallenge (#WeekTForTelevision)* #SensoryArt (#loud) *Caption with name of TV show
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I came from the sunny valleys
And sought for the open sea,
For I thought in its gray expanses
My peace would come to me.

I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the windless valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!"
-- Sara Teasdale

#ImageAndVerse #Stunday
Color photograph of the view upstream toward Garden Island and the Veterans Memorial Bridge across the Susquehanna River from the midst of Lake Clarke, PA at the beginning of October
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Meant to add a little gaming update this weekend; yes still playing and enjoying both BF6 and ARC; but if you're looking for a chill addiction and you've managed to pull yourself away from Balatro ... could do worse than saving Ballbylon. Ball x Pit ... vey, very good
Screenshot from the game Ball x Pit
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Wow Karen ... that Charleston left me breathless; and Vicky, as ever, completely love you and Kai; never change 😊

#Strictly
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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For those less moved by natures' displays of painterly prowess, an alternative #GreenSat, but related to the last and some of this week's foliage, namely the locomotive that pulled, and the carriage I stood in to take this week's shots.

#ColorADay #Photography #SensoryArt #Patterns
Color photograph looking along the wooden bench seating and slatted wooden sides of a windowless carriage, and green locomotive #10 beyond, on the Stewartstown Railroad in south central PA. All beneath a light green painted roof.
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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While fall foliage has been something I've chased of late; today's color theme pushes back toward normalcy, so let me dig deep and find some examples not decked out in yellow, browns and red. The last hold outs of the season that's been.

#Photography #ColorADay #GreenSat #Landscape
Color photograph of some of the stalwart green holdouts; the last to turn, those stubbornly hanging onto their green leaves with all they have. Tall thin deciduous green trees, still decked in green on a hillside, while to the right and on the valley floor below, the yellows and ambers and a layer of fallen leaves
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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So last spring, were the shepherds warned, full of delight, or just rocked back on their heels like the rest of us as the #evening cast its enchantment?

#Photography #Landscape #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin
Color photograph of some stunning cloud colors over the York County hillsides brought about with the setting sun last spring. From ambers on the right, through red tinted mid-level clouds through the center, transitioning to purples and blues on the left, all set above a dim almost lightless rural landscape.
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The wonderful iridescence of an oakleaf butterfly relaxing on the stucco wall; the underside of those wings are nothing like the tops. When the wings are closed you would be hard pressed to not think it a leaf.

#NaturePhotography #FlyDay #Butterflies #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows
Color photograph of an indian/orange oakleaf butterfly perched upon a stucco wall, its wings casting shadows upon the wall.
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Just because the weather has become colder, doesn't keep me away from bankside snapping. A late afternoon view across the Susquehanna River from Wrightsville to Columbia, along the Veterans Memorial Bridge.

#Photography #Landscape #Scape #Susquehanna #EastCoastKin
Color photograph looking east across the Susquehanna River from Wrightsville to Columbia, with the Veterans Memorial Bridge running left to right across two thirds of the lower third. A few branches overhang in the upper left, river rippling in the wind in the bottom third, and the top two thirds filled with a graduated gently clouded sky
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A little surreal dream #scape this Friday perhaps?

"All that we see or seem,
Is but a dream within a dream"
-- Edgar Allan Poe

Extra points for the Boomers and GenX folks who remember the German synthwave users of the famous line

#Photography #ColorADay #BWFri #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows
Black and white render of misty morning layers across Lancaster County and the Susquehanna valley as seen from York County. Foreground elements including utility lines and a tree exist in silhouette, giving way to multiple occurrences of the tips of landscape peeking out about layers of mist and cloud, beneath a gently banded sky
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This robin made the mistake of getting a little too close to a pair of nesting bluebirds; they were relentless at protecting their territory. Shot last spring in Gifford Pinchot State Park in southern Pennsylvania. 🐦🦉

#BirdOfTheDay #Fighting #Birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Wildlife
Color photograph of an american robin and a bluebird fighting over who controls a fence post; the bluebird's mate took to dive bombing the robin shortly after this; the blueburds repeated things until the robin gave up and left.
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Sleep is proving elusive and fleeting tonight, so maybe time to break into Friday's challenges?

As a reset. I should probably acknowledge all the folks this week who appear to have woken up and are finally smelling the roses

#ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono
Black and white render in a faux vintage film style of the bronze statue in Hershey Gardens of a small girl, pigeon toed, with short curly hair wearing a hat and dress, holding and smelling a rose.
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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It’s a collage type of day. 😉 16 little snippets of details taken from a variety of my embroideries. I hope it brightens your timeline… 🪡🌿🌺✨🌱🪻🪷 #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM