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Wanderer, ne’re-do-well, US expat. Jack of all trades, MSc. Plant Ecol. Humble creative meanderer: writer/musician/photographer/visual artist. Crazy old 🐈‍⬛ person. All my own work except reposts. AI-free zone! Author site: https://www.nordicnoirpress.com/
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Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · Jun 3
The Salt of Ancient Tears
A high concept modern/historical time-slip thriller based on medieval Europe’s most fascinating historical mystery, staged in a tragic, but ultimately uplifting epic saga of love, loss, and redemption.
Amazon: a.co/d/hiYk4X0

#thriller #romantic #timeslip #Norse #medieval
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 3d
Languor
Pen & Ink on paper
- Sakura Pigma Micron
[2011]

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Ink #Illustration #HandDrawn #Art #TraditionalArt #OriginalArt #B&WArt #Stippling #Pointillism #DotWork #October
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 3d
Entangled
Gjersjøen, Akershus
Norway

#Spooktober #Spiders #Spiderweb #Trees #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #HDR #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitephotography #ClassicMono #Monochrome #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Saturday #Norway
A HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo of multiple spiderwebs spun in a tree backlit by the sun.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 6d
It flies, time irretrievable
Stensrud, Oslo

Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus!
~ Vergil

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #Decay #UrbanDecay #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces #DecayingBeauty #ForgottonPlaces #Bryophytes #Mosses #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Norway
A colorful moss-covered, corroded window frame from a decaying abandoned cabin in the Norwegian woods.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 6d
Gemütlichkeit is the order of the day :)
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 9d
Diesel (aka Blacky)

#Spooktober #BlackCat #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky #CatSky #MacroMonday #Photography #MacroPhotography #EastCoastKin
A close up of the face of a handsome black cat with very colorful eyes.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 9d
Very cool! I'll try to tune in. That would be 14:00 - 15:00 CET, yes? 🙂
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 9d
I definitely feel and share your pain. As an author, musician, and photographer, I feel the creative world has been dealt a crushing loss. Fighting against the AI tsunami is the hill that I’m willing to die on.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 9d
My thoughts exactly.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 11d
Frost Beard
Gjersjøen, Akershus

Frost Beard (aka Hair Ice) is a rare form of ice consisting of delicate threads of ice exuding from dead wood under certain weather conditions.

#ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #B&W #Photography #Monochrome #Nature #Forest #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Norway
A black & white photo of a phenomenon called Frost Beard (aka Hair Ice). Frost Beard is a somewhat rare form of ice consisting of delicate threads exuding from dead wood under certain weather conditions.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 11d
😂
retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 12d
It was Nagy Hüte, Thaliastraße 36. It’s apparently gone now, but not forgotten. 🥰
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 12d
Yes, it was just by the farmers market😊
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 12d
My bad, of course the U6. All I remember was that it looked like it hadn’t changed much in the last hundred years. The proprietors were pretty ancient, too, but of course, being Viennese, were sehr gemütlich. I love all the old shops in Vienna, but also the new ones, like those on Neubaugasse.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 12d
Years ago, I bought one of my fedoras in a lovely old hat shop on Thaliastraße, located close to the U3 U-Bahn station (I can’t remember the name), but I think the shop is gone now. I still have the hat 😊
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 12d
Forgotten
Svartskog, Akershus

And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
~ W.H. Auden

#UrbanGaze #BlackAndWhite #B&W #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Cars #Forgotten #Landscape #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Norway
A black and white photograph of a sad, abandoned car covered in leaves.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 14d
Delphinidae
Colored pencil on paper

#AnimalArtTuesday #Dolphin #Cetaceans #Pencil #ColorPencil #Illustration #Handdrawn #OriginalArt #Art #ColorfulArt #EastCoastKin #Tuesday
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 19d
a man in a green shirt sits with his hands on his head in a bowling alley
ALT: a man in a green shirt sits with his hands on his head in a bowling alley
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 19d
Thanks for the update. I don’t figure on ever seeing anything. However, very strange to see my book pop up on the list. It’s not like it’s a bestseller 😅
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 19d
I checked via the Atlantic search engine and my novel, The Salt of Ancient Tears was listed as downloaded. However, I read somewhere that to receive compensation your book had to be patented in the US.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 21d
Lovely observation, thanks 😊
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 22d
Envy Drowning In Tears
Acrylic on prepared paper

‘As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.’
~ Antisthenes Pinto

#ColorADay #BlueTue #CyanTue #Acrylic #Painting #HandPainted #OriginalArt #ContemporaryArt #AbstractArt #ArtistsOnBlueSky #Artsky #Tuesday
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Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 22d
I lived in Ouray, CO. for a year or so back in the day. I’ve traveled all over the world but the San Juan Mountains and Colorado in general captured my heart like few places ever did. Enjoy the beautiful autumn gold! 💛
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Reposted by Talgø
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Merisi Vienna @merisi-vienna.bsky.social · 23d
VIENNA IN SEPTEMBER
In a Viennese Kitchen
Caressed by the Morning Sun
Pumpkins in a Blue Bowl
Image © Merisi Vienna

The sun now reaches corners of my kitchen
it has not touched all summer.

#EastCoastKin #Photography
#BlueSkyMonday #Blue #StillLife
Four 'white' pumpkins in a blue bowl, illuminated by the morning sun.
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 23d
Beautiful—it resembles a classical still-life 😊
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retractus.bsky.social
Talgø @retractus.bsky.social · 23d
😅