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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 10h

High in the Dolomites
Hiking through the Dolomites in northern Italy. Scenes like this reminded me of some of Ansel Adams' great photographs of Yosemite valley.
#photography #Dolomites #Italy #travel #mountains

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Great video!

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Fungus!
I love taking photographs of fungus of various types. This one was in Moses Cone Memorial Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.
#photography #fungus #NorthCarolina #BlueRidge

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Kings College Chapel, Cambridge
A combination panorama/HDR shot made from about 6 separate photos. (If you go to Kings College Chapel, you'll find the best interior light comes on cloudy days.)
#photography #Cambridge #KingsCollegeChapel #NotCathedrals

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Chapel Royal Pillar
This is the Chapel Royal (obviously) in Dublin. Great architecture in lovely light.
#photography #travel #Dublin #ChapelRoyal #Ireland

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 4d

Well, the original "no kings" day did take place in London in 1649...

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 7d

I don't need to show you my favorite map, you'll be able to see it in your head as soon as I tell you: it's the London Underground map.

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 8d

BTW: This is a two-image "panorama" (joined vertically, rather than horizontally). The panorama software generates the distortion noticeable in the image, but I decided I quite like the effect.

Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 8d

Loch Lomond and the West Highland Way
The marker in the foreground is a memorial to Dario Melaragni, one of the organizers of the West Highland Way ultramarathon (which covers all 96 miles of the trail!)
#photography #landscape #Scotland #WestHighlandWay #LochLomond #DarioMelaragni

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Bath Abbey in Fog
Old-school film photo of Bath's famous abbey on a foggy day in January. Bath is still one of my favourite British cities to visit, though I haven't been there in a while. Might be time for a revisit...
#photography #Bath #architecture #abbey

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Ceiling, Great Malvern Priory
I love getting ceilings in places like this (and marvel at how they were constructed at a time when there was no modern technology).
#photography #Malvern #priory #ceiling #architecture

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 11d

Well you have to admit, if nothing else People magazine does know its audience.

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 11d

Dale Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 12d

Sunset on Grandfather Mountain
Today's phone wallpaper. Taken on Attic Window peak when camping one night, hoping for sunrise photos the next morning. Morning turned out to be a thunderstorm so this was all I got!
#photography #sunset #BlueRidge #GrandfatherMountain

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 14d

King's College, Cambridge
The next best thing to clear, blue skies? Dark, brooding skies. (The latter being more common than the former in this part of England, I'm afraid.)
#photography #travel #Cambridge #KingsCollege

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 15d

Dale Castle, Wales
Taken while hiking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path a couple of months ago. Dale is a lovely seaside town which we very much enjoyed. The castle is private property on the outskirts of town.
#photography #travel #Wales #Dale #castle

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 15d

Oh my god, no! Not the... washing line incident! (Dramatic chord)

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 16d

Wisteria in Oxford
This is Balliol College, Oxford. Taken with a Pentax MX and 50mm f/1.4 lens on good old-fashioned film.
#photography #film #Oxford #Balliol #wisteria

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 17d

Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow isn't considered much of a tourist destination (suggested slogan: "Not as bad as Frankie Boyle says it is") but the cathedral is definitely worth a visit.
#photography #Glasgow #cathedral #Scotland

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 21d

Great Western
Celebrating the 200th anniversary(!) of the world's first railway, the Stockton & Darlington Railway, last Saturday. This is a shot of a locomotive on the Dartmouth Steam Railway in the station in Paignton, Devon.
#photography #railway #locomotive #steam #Dartmouth #Paignton

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 22d

Red Umbrella at the Boston Marathon
The 2018 Boston Marathon saw some of the worst weather in its history: rain, fierce headwinds and temperature just a few degrees above freezing. I took this multiple-exposure HDR shot from a trolley car on the Green Line.
#photography #Boston #Marathon #HDR

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 24d

The Pace Line
Bicycles at the Mayor's Cup Criterion in Boston.
#photography #bicycle #criterion #Boston

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 27d

Pinkham Notch
Early spring in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Just a little bit of fog and around a half-second exposure get the mood just right.
#photography #NewHampshire #WhiteMountains #PinkhamNotch #river

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 28d

View from the Burgess Shale
This is Yoho National Park in British Columbia, Canada. We took a (supervised) hike up to the famous Burgess Shale site, where thousands of Cambrian (~580 million years old) fossils have been discovered.
#photography #landscape #travel #Yoho #Canada #BurgessShale

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Mark Roberts @gromitroberts.bsky.social · 29d

Fotoshop
A camera shop in Pittsburgh where I worked while in grad school. Ironically, this shot uses little Photoshop: I just shot the reflection in a shop window across the street and flipped it in Photoshop so you can read the sign.
#photography #Fotoshop #Photoshop #Pittsburgh #SquirrelHill

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