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Mark D Alexander

@mad7500.bsky.social

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#ExPostNews 'Runnin' Down a Dream🎶 ❤️ Hobbyist Photographer & Artist 💛Wildlife, Humanity, Landscape, Architecture 💚 Surviving life the best I can! 💜Very Tired Now! 🥱 🎶It’s Times Like These 🎶 All Photos are Mine unless reposts©️ #EastCoastKin #Breathe🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · May 25

Not posted in a while.. 😉 Photograph the alphabet with no typography.... Look, then look again, reflections, shadows, letters are everywhere 😎… see you all tomorrow 📷 🌳 🌾👒☀️
💃🏻🎶Louis Armstrong 🎶🕺🏻
🎶🕺🏻🌱🎶’What A Wonderful World 🎶💃🏻🌱🎶
#Nature #Photography #ECK #Breathe #BeKind #MHA #MentalHealthAwareness

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 20m

Thank you Scott, oh Woody wouldn’t fly himself, no he’d fly First Class Seat 1A … 🛫🛬… Star ⭐️🦉 that he is. Probably do a few Chat Shows, Good Morning America.. make a working holiday out of it. 😁

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 26m

I have no Mountains near me… but I have Mud, Glorious, Mud for a #MudMonday #BlueSkyMonday
I often think 😉, if I was to run out onto that! How far could I get 🤔…I reckon 2nd post….reality though, sink straight away 😁
Be Fun Trying 😎📷☀️👋
Old Felixstowe, Suffolk, U.K.
#ECK #Nature #Photography #MHA

Tides out view of mud, with a few boats on the right hand side still in water. The sky is blue with not a cloud in sight

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 47m

Thank you Scott ☺️… if that’s a real 🏆 , I’ll send Woody over to collect it 😁… I hope you are having a wonderful day…. Keep smiling 😊🦉☀️👋

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 56m

Thank you Kris, it’s not the winning it’s the taking part, we are all winners… secretly though it is about winning 😉…joking 😊 if it promotes my local owl sanctuary then all good in my mind, these beautiful raptors have to be seen, and the work the raptor hospital does for injured birds is immense..

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, back of the Palm House last June. I didn’t realise you were on BS… but Yay! Kew Gardens is one of my favourite places.. a few photographs from this year… I’ll hopefully be back at the end of October … Spooky walk last year 😱.. brilliantly done as always. 🍂🌳☀️👋

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Elan, have a great day 🦉☀️👋

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Hi P… I just saw your post 🪻… all good thank you, Have a lovely day 🦉☀️👋

Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Monday P. Beautiful photograph… Have a lovely day 🪻☀️👋

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P Pekka @prepekka98.bsky.social · 2h

Dahlias on a drippy, misty autumn morning.

#Bloomscrolling #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷 🌱

Ferncliffe Inspiration dahlias on a drippy, misty autumn morning.

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zen sation @zen-sation.bsky.social · 17h

Looking at a Pacific Sunset.
#Stunday #stunning
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin

Looking across a lake toward a Pacific sunset. An orange and yellow sun peeking from the gray clouds above is reflected on the calm lake.
A place to escape to for calm.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

😎 Photograph Liv. Have a wonderful day and week. 👋

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Liv Junqueira @junqueiraliv.bsky.social · 16h

#ClassicMono

Black and white photo of clouds during sunset.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 15h

Virginia creeper effects
#Artsy #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #EastCoastKin

An artsy rendering of a photo of fall colors in a Virginia creeper: a few palmate, almost fluorescent red leaves emerge from a confusion of fall colors, pink, red, green and yellow against a smoky brown background. The ambiance is stormy, probably because there was a thunderstorm in the park where the vine is growing and flowing down the fences.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Beautiful Photograph Denali Sam, I hope all is well with you. 🍂🌳☀️👋

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Denali Sam @denalisam.bsky.social · 16h

October, Day 12

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

Henry David Thoreau
journal 1851

Denali Sam, photographer

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ione blue @ioneblue.bsky.social · 14h

white dianthus with green
#photography
#macrophotography
#photographersofbluesky
#eastcoastkin
#imageandverse
#flowers
#art
#bloomscrolling

"A light here requires a shadow there."
— Virginia Woolf

Always.

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macrophotograph of a white dianthus with yellow-green accents and yellow stamens, filling the frame. hard to see but they are there. more dianthus behind it plus a purple mum at the furthers back on the top left. with a Virginia Woolf quote about shadow and light. so true.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Voted for you Kris, some lovely photos on there as well. Good luck. I came 3rd (joint) in my local Owl Sanctuary Photography Competition a couple of years ago with this pic, I never mention it though!! 😁😉… came nowhere last year….I might enter this year…undecided…still sulking !😂 Have a lovely day👋

Smokey and Bandit the Great Grey Owl siblings sitting on a tree.

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Kris Gates @krismgates.bsky.social · 14h

If anyone cares to cast a vote in a local contest, you can find my entry as #18, today's #Bird of the Day: Kingfisher. The winner will be the photo on the annual pass for one of my local parks. No obligation to vote for mine; there are some wonderful entries!
Voting here: csrgpdx.org/annual-pass-...

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 1h

Brilliant Montis… I wanted to shout ‘Tequila’ 😁… Hope all is well with you… 🪇🎶🐈☀️👋

a cat wearing a sombrero and holding maracas is sitting on a table .

ALT: a cat wearing a sombrero and holding maracas is sitting on a table .

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Montis Boeher @montisboeher.bsky.social · 13h

While I have the video tab open... Ziti's mariachi dance. #Cats #Caturday

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Bob @actualbob.art · 1d

📱 | Northern Minnesota (2025)
Tucking her in for the winter #stunday #silentsunday

Pre-dawn landscape photograph of a lake and sky. The sky above the horizon features a blue and copper gradient, with dark, broken clouds overhead. A dense, deep black silhouette of a coniferous trees lines the horizon above the dark water. The needles of a pine tree in the foreground partially frame the upper left and lower right edges of the image.

A panoramic photograph of a sunrise over a lake. The sky is dominated by wide bands of soft coral, rose, and orange light, with horizontal streaks of white and muted purple clouds. The silhouette of a forest lines the horizon just above the water's edge, which reflects the pinkish glow of the sky.

A close-up view of the dark, rippling surface of a lake at dawn. The water reflects the soft purple and pink hues of the hidden sun. The silhouette of a pine branch hangs into the frame on the left, contrasting with the detailed texture of the water's surface, which transitions from deep black in the foreground to a muted pink at the horizon.

A pre-dawn photograph of a small cabin. The windows of the cabin emit a strong, warm, amber-yellow light, providing a contrast to the deep blue-gray light outside. On the right, a tall, rounded chimney made of native stones dominates the foreground. The warm interior light shows a glimpse of a kitchen space inside.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you Jon, Have a wonderful day as well..🍂🦉☀️👋

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Jean Kelsey @immachocoholic.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning friends! Happy Monday! It’s storming to beat the band outside. Here’s a #SunriseMagic from my archives on the #CTShoreline with some clouds. Have a peaceful day 😊 #landscape #photography #reflections

As the sun rises the cloud cover illuminates in orange colors. I the distance the leafless trees are silhouetted by the orange colors. The water is calm reflecting the sky and landscape. In the foreground is a spruce tree a pruned hydrangea tree and a couple of poles.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning Jean, Thank you☺️, Have a beautiful day as well 🍂🦉🌳☀️👋

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning Roxie, Thank you, Woody is the happiest owl in the World... 😊... Have a wonderful day...🦉🌳☀️👋

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