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Benjamin Simpson
@hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social
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I don’t know. What was the question again? Also, I built a time machine out of rubber bands and hope. Some of the photos are taken from my rental spaceship as I travel the exoplanets. The journeys help keep me vaguely sane. Hodomania (dot) com
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · Jul 5
I take photographs of flowers with black backgrounds.
Floating in my head are ten different titles.
One of them is:
‘Darkness Behind’
Because there is so much beauty in the world, but also so much darkness.
It feels disingenuous to show beauty all the time,
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#bloomscrolling #nature #macro
A collection of white flowers taken in nature (or maybe a garden). The white almost glows. Surrounding the flowers is darkness. The flowers are perfect and wonderful and beautiful.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 18h
No words today.

#river #stream #dartmoor #photography #nature #quiet
A stream in a forest. In the foreground is a large rock covered in green moss. Next to the rock water is flowing between another rock on the other side but this rock is black and wet. There is a tiny waterfall, but the water is smoothed into artificial calm with a long exposure. Smooth and calm of a bubbling mess that is smooth and calm if you stare at it for long enough in real life.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 1d
Snails view.

#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lines #nature #photography #macro #forest
A mushroom. Close view of the underside of a mushroom. There is a white stalk and a plethora of perfect straight lines growing up from the stalk to make smooth lines. Each line is a thin strip of fungi. Half of the mushroom is in darkness.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 3d
Softly watching over the dead.

#cemetery #statue #angel #graveyard #31daysofhalloween
A statue. A statue in a cemetery. A view only of the face from the side. A cherub or an angel with curly stone hair. There is a dusting of brown lichen on the hair. The face is looking down somberly with closed eyes.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 5d
No words today.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest #macro
In a damp dark forest. At the base of a tree. The space where tree meets roots where there are waves of trunk. There is green moss on the alive wooden waves. Sitting in the hollows between the waves is a collection of mushrooms. White stems with white caps with fading into brown tops. Calm. Peaceful.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 6d
Why that subtle grin in a cemetery?
What do you know that we don’t?

#statue #cemetery #graveyard #gothic #photography
A statue in a cemetery. The statue is clean and white, maybe marble. Only the face and shoulders are in frame. Female statue with hints of being a nun. Dramatic side light with half the face in dark shadow and the lips have a subtle Mona Lisa smile.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 7d
Top and bottom.

#fungi #mushroom #photography #nature #forest
The underside of a mushroom, or is it a fungi? Anyway it looks like the full moon, white round against black. But unlike the moon it is made up of tiny ribs. White ribs close together radiating out from the stem. Or hundreds of tiny tiny canals. The top of the same mushroom. It is white and round against a black background. But the top is smooth with a light tinge of brown.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 8d
Part of my simply named -cemetery-angel-watching-over-the-dead-with-serious-mournful-thoughts- gothic grave series.

#cemetery #gothic #statue #angel #photography #31daysofhalloween
The face of a stone angel in a cemetery. Dramatic dark lighting as the angels expression is downcast and mournful.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 9d
So wonderfully beautiful and complex.

Why this shape?
Why brown top?
Why white center?
Why purple hanging down?

#fungi #nature #photography #mushroom #forest #forestfloor
A mushroom from the point of view of a bug on the forest floor. Gray white stalk with a round umbrella top. There is a chunk missing from the top so the center is visible. Thin brown top with a white foam like center and hundreds a straight lines hanging down in a reddish purple colour. Amazing and weird.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 10d
More from my succinctly named -handsome-stoic-stone-angels-hanging-out-in-cemeteries-watching-over-our-dead- series.

#cemetery #goth #statue #angel #gravestone #photography #31DaysOfHalloween
Statue in a cemetery. The face of a woman or angel made out of stone. She is looking down in sorrow with her hand on her cheek. There is green lichen/moss on her forehead and hair. There are ivy leaves framing her face.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 12d
No words today.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #macro #forest
A mushroom on a forest floor with a brown leaf next to the mushroom. The mushroom has a small white, almost fluorescent, cap. The stem is long and white and thin and looks fragile. The brown leaf is as long as the stem.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 14d
It’s October, so I can inflict you with my simply named ‘angel-and-cherub-statue-photographs-with-dramatic-lighting-because-cemeteries-are-beautiful’ series of photos.

#cemetery #statue #angel #graveyard #photography #goth
A statue in a cemetery. It is a woman or an angel. She is looking down with one hand on her chest. Side light so half of her face is in shadow. Ready for a goth album cover.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 15d
…it’s that season again…

#fungi #mushroom #nature #macro #photography
A mushroom from the point of view of a fairy standing on the forest floor. The mushroom has a white stem and a brown round cap. Could almost be a thatched cottage roof. There are fallen leaves and dirt and grass surrounding the mushroom.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 16d
Early morning sunlight.

#nature #photography #river #forest #longexposure
Standing beside a small river in a forest. The water is flowing over and around numerous rocks and boulders. The water is smoothed by long exposure. Sunlight is slanting through the trees so there is much darkness but numerous spots of bright water and green moss and leaves.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 17d
Reflection.

#nature #photography #reflection #forest #waterdrop #droplet
The same three photographs, they just get closer. A green leaf in a forest. There is a water droplet hanging off the leaf. There is the reflection of another leaf if you look closely or zoom in. The same three photographs, they just get closer. A green leaf in a forest. There is a water droplet hanging off the leaf. There is the reflection of another leaf if you look closely or zoom in. The same three photographs, they just get closer. A green leaf in a forest. There is a water droplet hanging off the leaf. There is the reflection of another leaf if you look closely or zoom in.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 20d
Future.

#acorn #seed #nature #photography #forest #macro
An acorn. An acorn on the tree. The acorn is smooth and green. It has a sheath holding it to the tree. The sheath is gnarled. There is black behind and a single stem holding it and two dark leaves in the background.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 21d
I wonder why Brad has a wicked grin?
(this plant’s name is Brad, by the way)
What’s he thinking in there?

#seeds #nature #photography #plant #macro
A seed pod. Quite large for a seed pod, golf ball sized, but more oval. It is green and just opening. The tiny crack looks like a thin mouth opening, with orange teeth. The orange teeth are the round seeds.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 22d
I’ll be there in a moment…

#bloomscrolling #nature #photography #macro #budding
A collection of buds about to flower. There are six or so clumped together. All green wrapped around white petals. The top one is just opening. The rest are coming along but not quite there yet. If you wait a moment, I’ll be blooming something beautiful, please be patient. But actually, I’m beautiful now.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 23d
:)
(That was for the cat, not the bank balance :) )
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 23d
Moo.

#cow #cownose #nose #nature #photography #farm
The nose of a cow. Just the nose. It’s pink with black dots. Wide. With white fur around. There is a wire fence. Sunny grass just visible behind. The nose looks apathetic.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 24d
Fuzzy
with invisible spider.

#nature #spiderweb #photography #fuzzy
It looks like a fried brown flower. The petals curled and brown. But the center is a brown fuzzy ball. With one spider web strand going off the photo.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 26d
The tree has antlers.

#oakmoss #lichen #nature #photography #macro #forest
It is dark in the forest, just one branch is visible. There is some lichen on the end of the branch that looks like antlers. I think it is called Oakmoss, which is a weird name for lichen which is not moss? Anyway, it’s pretty.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 27d
Willow says zzzzzzzzzzzz. (Translated as dreaming of treats, translated as good luck.)
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 29d
Climbing vine, reaching out, not finding.

#climbingvine #climbingplant #nature #macro
Climbing vine. There is one strand of a climbing vine. It normally finds something to cling to, but it is just hanging all alone against blackness. It is curled around itself like a curled hair. But thicker.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · Sep 16
No words today.

#nature #bloomscrolling #macro #photography
A flower. It must be a flower, but it might be a pod. Like from The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Two large red/yellow leaves. Then four small red leaves and a yellow ball/pod thing in the middle. Definetely not an alien invasion.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · Sep 15
‘Year’
with annual cemetery lichen.

#moss #lichen #cemetery #macro #photography #naturehumanintersection
Photo of a headstone in a cemetery. Just a close view of the word ‘year’ carved into the stone. Partly covering the word is a perfectly circular orange and white moss. (It’s a moss right? Not a lichen???) anyway there are a couple white and orange circles on the stone. Despite death, there is life.
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