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Harvey

@magick-man.bsky.social

Today’s frame, raw and unfiltered. Light before the spell. 📸✨

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August 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM

Harvey

@magick-man.bsky.social

Light and sky caught as it is, shadow unpolished. 📸

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August 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Harvey

@magick-man.bsky.social

Raw capture of the day. Nothing hidden, nothing refined. 📸✨

#LightAndShadowWeaver #BlueSkyPhotogs #VisualAlchemy #PhotographyCommunity #DigitalMystic #GoldenEyeShots #ArtistOnBlueSky#FlowerPower

August 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM

Harvey

@magick-man.bsky.social

This week’s chosen frame, reborn through the edit. 📸✨

"The Unbothered King"

#BlueSkyPhotogs #ThroughMyLens #ArtInFocus #VisualAlchemy #PhotographyCommunity #DigitalMystic #GoldenEyeShots

August 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM

Harvey

@magick-man.bsky.social

Raw capture of the day. Nothing hidden, nothing refined. 📸✨
#RawFrame #LightAndShadow #DailyPhoto #BlueSkyPhotogs #PhotographyCommunity

August 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Sueloganphotography

@sueloganphotos.bsky.social

Pride in chrome.
Smiles behind glass.
A surfboard on the roof and stories in the shine.
I stopped for the Beetle. I stayed for the couple inside.
#therapythroughmylens
#classiccars
#carphotography
#hubcapreflections
#streetphotographers
#vintagecars
#photographersunited
#blueskyphotogs

August 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Sueloganphotography

@sueloganphotos.bsky.social

Just light, shadow, and the rhythm of steps underfoot.
Farewell Turkey — thank you for the memories.

#therapythroughmylens #StreetPhotography #BnwPhotography #BlueskyPhotogs #Photowalk #MonochromeMood #VisualPoetry #MindfulSeeing
#photographersunited
#travelphotography
#turkey

August 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM

Sueloganphotography

@sueloganphotos.bsky.social

Markets like this aren’t just about what’s sold — they’re a feast of colour, texture, and stories waiting to be noticed.

Hashtags:
#therapythroughmylens #BlueskyPhotogs #streetphotographers #TravelPhotography #MindfulShooter #CulturalTextures #OldTownVibes #ColourInTheChaos

August 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM

PocketShotz

@pocketshots.bsky.social

Flag Alley.

iPhone 13 Pro

#shotoniphone #iphoneography #create #mobilephotography #pocketcreations #moments #photography #computationalphotography
#projectindigo #pocketshots #iphoneography #mobilemacro #neewer #handheldshot #blueskyphotogs #nofilter

July 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM

PocketShotz

@pocketshots.bsky.social

Where Petals Whisper and Pollen Speaks

iPhone 13 Pro with Neweer LS-26 105mm
Project Indigo Camera app

#shotoniphone #iphoneography #create #pocketcreations #moments #photography #computationalphotography
#projectindigo #pocketshots #neewer #handheldshot #blueskyphotogs #nofilter

July 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM

Tom Ogburn 🪔

@bardicarts.bsky.social

Photograph by @skyfullofstars4.bsky.social

#Landscapes #Photography #Nature #Iphone
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Solace #Dream
#BlueSkyPhotogs #landscape #photography
#Sea #Ocean #Blue #Scape #Landscape #Beach
#Florida #WhiteClouds

June 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM

Tom Ogburn 🪔

@bardicarts.bsky.social

#Landscapes #Photography #Nature #RESIST
#SkylineDriveParkway #BlueRidgeParkway
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Stunday #Solace
#BlueSkyPhotogs #landscape #photography

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Jan 11

"In the gloaming, a trail of Mists" a digital photo from The Parkways Projects. I've been going round & round—how to start this in here...🦋 For it's a multi-tiered sequence of art. Since it began really in 1964, as a 9 year old with a Kodak Instamatic—this shot from 2021, Mount Mitchell trailhead 🦉

A cold and thoroughly rain-soaked trailhead leading down to the Appalachian Trail from Mount Michell State Park in North Carolina. A stand of high-country alpine black spruce.

From the Parkways project, a reclamation of sorts to come. I walked down it for a ways, became very cognizant of Time winnowing away, took a number of other images, and then decided to push on up the Parkway, as it had become very real to me that the remaining 12 days were going to be very fleet.

By this time, I'd found passages which had been turned, the corners folded back so many times that the bookmarks crumbled and fell on the touch.

I was waylaid on the way back up the trail though, and burned the last remaining daylight because, in walking back one sees things that weren't there from the first perspective, or angle of view, depending on the way you see things. By the end of that relatively short and very wet hike, I offloaded over 400 images into a folder set aside for this one little episode that night, once back at my fog-enshrouded campground.

Does that make it a chapter, I wonder?

Digital photography will be the largest component of what I hope will be a photo-essay within a few years. I'll be launching a site soon which will include much older photos from 1964 through 1972. They are family shots made over five camping vacations through the headiest part of the 1960's. There's a patina of age, a soft depth to them. Then the archival National Park Service images. A sequence on the small bridges & structures now long gone. A series on the people. Two abstract sequences of works, both digital composite builds. A study on the Civilian Conservation Corps efforts to reclaim the old forests & build some of the most beautiful rustic structures in America.

June 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM

Tom Ogburn 🪔

@bardicarts.bsky.social

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#SkylineDriveParkway #BlueRidgeParkway
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Stunday #Solace
#BlueSkyPhotogs #landscape #photography

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Jan 12

The original image is blurred, the camera slipped or perhaps it was a windy day in the mountains. There's no name inscribed on back. She's unknown, but not on that day so long ago. She's my longest mystery to date.

“Oconalufty River (Missing Portal in Time) #BlueSkyArtShow #Layers #EastCoastKin

“Oconalufty River (Missing Portal in Time),” digital composite build from the ‘America: Lost & Found’ series, one of the few ‘A:L&F’ works which include a person.

They are the specters, the shades, the one gone missing, that one who must have done something wrong, or possibly just the one who remained unmarried and was eventually allowed to lie in the sun, flat on a table baked by sunlight each day until the albumin or nitrates faded, leaving their visage just an enigmatic ghostly shape.

Here is one of those images to me. She resides in the Bin of Kershaw/Lancaster counties, her life was lived between circa 1922-1928 to maybe as long as 2010-2015.

Yet I do not know who she is. I may never know, but I have an idea she is one of my maternal grandmother’s extended family. That narrows it down to abut 12-15 young women somewhere in their 20-33rd year between the years of 1946-1960. I can guess those years by the physical photograph shape and the undulating edge which in our family matches one of my Grandparents old Brownie cameras.

She remains nameless to this day.

June 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM

Tom Ogburn 🪔

@bardicarts.bsky.social

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#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Stunday #Solace
#BlueSkyPhotogs #landscape #photography

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Jan 12

"Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Ooh yeah I'm gonna fade away..."

1965 #DigitalPhotograph from #TheParkwaysProject, a labor of love & faith in something intangible, something that is viewed from the peripherals. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Layers

"Ooh, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Ooh yeah I'm gonna fade away..."

"Gimme Shelter, constructed 1955," digital photograph from "The Parkways Project,' a labor of love and faith in something intangible, something that is there if viewed from the peripherals. Image Copyright 2023 Tom Ogburn.

"Mmm, a flood is threatening
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away..."

≈ Jagger/Richards

It was in picnic shelter such as this one where I learned, meeting them first hand, Hippies were of all of all constructions, side by side with those who just as well seen them banned from the parks, parkways & small town Mom & Pop stores just off the Parkway.

Day by day, step by step, inch by inch, the mill town enclosures winnowed away, replaced by views alien, beyond the pale of even Marvl comics. Which was saying something.

June 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM

Tom Ogburn 🪔

@bardicarts.bsky.social

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#SkylineDriveParkway #BlueRidgeParkway
#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Stunday #Solace
#BlueSkyPhotogs #landscape #photography

The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Jan 19

1️⃣ Hello #Bluesky! I'm Tom Ogburn (@bardicarts artist account) I'm launching this dedicated "Parkways Projects" GSMNP-BRP-SDP & ShenandoahNP 🏕️

The theme is #Blur at the #BlueSkyArtShow & its still running—you can still post if it's still Saturday, Jan 18 where you are!

Here's a Blur from Here! 🧵⬇️

Th predominant image you see here is when we drove down to St. Augustine for a four day trip. Wee're at Fort San Marcos here. But come August, we were up at Little Switzerland and Tweetsie Railroad, which began our switch from Motels at the beaches to Camping/Motels in the Mountains.

This Projec will end up being a Photo Essay on the history of the Great Smky Mountains NP, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Skyline Drive Parkway and then Shenandoah NP. It was a grand plan by FDR, and introduced the CCC and eventually the WPA.

There'll be a lot of elements to The Parkways Projects, both happy, sad, dark and uplifting. For it is a story of the Appalachians.

June 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM

Tom Ogburn 🪔

@bardicarts.bsky.social

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#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Stunday #Solace
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The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025 @parkwaysprojects.bsky.social · Jan 25

1️⃣"Norwegian Woods,"October 2017 #shotoniphone A scrim wall of mists, undulated as if by stagehands. #EastCoastKin #scape #nature #blueskyphotogs
#landscape #treescape #BlueSkyFineArts
#BlueSkyPhotography
Norway, South Carolina. Staying at a farm on land my Huguenot forbears owned 176 years back⬇️

"You're standing on the porch of a farmhouse, just ten yards (if that) from a perceptibly approaching veil of mists while listening to Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett [see thread] which just seem too synchronous for the slow fade of these first few days of your return home from the high deserts." ≈ A swapping of places. Welcome to the story's beginning.

I was surprised on my return from Santa Fe to see the miasma fogs had returned to this region of SC. Within ten minutes the silver grays had slipped into impenetrable, barely indigo-black of nightfall. Falling faster than the mists were approaching. And then the skittering sound, the retching of an interminably long hissing. I'd started 7 panels that day inside the raw pined walls of the farmhouse & had noticed a swift fog outside the window. I'd not expected the hissing. It remained a tenant of the mists for 2 years and 2 months although I was to come and go so often from here all too often in that time.

The home was surrounded by a 40ish stand of pine, so most likely I was standing what was likely a tobacco field in 1974—the year I graduated from high school. Two years after the last vacation our family took in August of ’72; a very short one by comparison to what my mind had just dislodged. I walked back in from the side hissing porch, picked a wine glass, poured a tawny port, grabbed my pipe & walked onto the front porch. Dark but a chill was backed by more hisses.

June 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM

Tom Ogburn 🪔

@bardicarts.bsky.social

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#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Stunday #Solace
#BlueSkyPhotogs #landscape #photography

Loretta Robinson @lorettarobinson.bsky.social · Jun 29

Good Morning! It is a day for #reflection in the Faroe Islands. Sunday... #Stunday

Fun fact..there are 18 islands and did does not matter where you stand, you are never more than 2 miles from the ocean!

#EastCoastKin #Photography