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Peter Barnes
@infinite8horizon.com
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Eclectic curmudgeon, bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d

On Turrbal land, he/him/ally.
Photos etc. here.
Politics at @infinite8horizon2.bsky.social
∃ @infinite8horizon alter-egos on mastodon & others.
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Peter Barnes @infinite8horizon.com · Mar 27
Hi, and welcome!
I have two BlueSky accounts.
This one is for my photos (and others') and other nice things.

The other account, @infinite8horizon2.bsky.social, is for politics and not-so-nice things. Choose wisely, and check the auto-complete.

Bio is the same (it's me!), link in profile.
Enjoy.
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Oh woe... Jon Kudelka, superb political cartoonist and all-around lovely human being, has died aged 53 from glioblastoma. We are all the poorer.
Condolences to his family 🙏
Jon's tea-towel design satirising the irrational arguments advanced by rusted-on supporters of the ALP (mildly left-wing party) against the Greens party.
February 9, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
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The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
australia.theguardian.com
Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53
Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53
Award-winning Tasmanian artist’s work was published by The Australian, The Saturday Paper and The Hobart Mercury Jon Kudelka, the Australian political cartoonist, has died at the age of 53. His wife Margaret Kudelka announced the news in a statement on Tuesday: “We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
rachelwithers.bsky.social
Utterly devastating. Jon Kudelka was so good and so compassionate and so funny.

*Nobody* skewered the Albanese government better.

Rest easy, Jon 💔
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
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Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad.

Goddamn I will miss him
Photo of the windows next to my desk of the a framed Kudelka rusted on bingo tea towel and print of his Tassie devil.
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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@alan678.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #posted a bird on a post or fence, alt is #red

Red-backed fairy-wren on the fence
#photography #birds #wren #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
Red-backed fairy wren on barbed-wire fence
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #posted a bird on a post or fence

A gallery for galerita (Cacatua galerita to you)
#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #gidt #EastCoastKin
Sulphur-crested cockatoo with an opinion Pair of sulphur-crested cockatoos in an onshore wind Sulphur-crested cockatoo asking "what does askance mean"? Interior with sulphur-crested cockatoo (also a lorikeet, but you have to look) and a non-avian bird-of-paradise
February 8, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #posted a bird on a post or fence, alt is #red

These work both ways...
King parrot x m & f, rainbow lorikeet, scaly-breasted lorikeet
#photography #birds #parrots #lorikeets #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
King parrot in the mist Female king parrot on the fence Rainbow lorikeet attempting the difficult three-point dismount Awwwwww. Scaly breasted lorikeets allopreening.
February 8, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Pigeon post

@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #posted a bird on a post or fence

#photography #humour #EastCoastKin
The silhouette of a pigeon perched on a post, seen through dense out-of-focus vegetation.
February 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Good Morning!
Lorikeet breakfast... (sound on but low)

I don't normally post video and audio, as I'm not a videographer (as will soon become apparent), however I thought this might amuse or appeal.

#photography #videography #RainbowLorikeet #feeding #noisy #gift #EastCoastKin
February 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #blurred, and I have *way* too much material. *Not* artistic blur. A modest sample...

A lorikeet (of course), a currawong and bat locked in battle, a kingfisher (or course) and a king parrot
#photography #CrapWildlifePhotography #rejects #EastCoastKin
A rainbow lorikeet changing its mind about landing A currawong having a territorial argument with a bat A forest kingfisher. Trust me. A king parrot, panned but not with enough shutter speed.
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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Tensegrity pedestrian bridge, Brisbane

#SensoryArt #Bridges
#photography #landscape #architecture #gift #EastCoastKin
A tensegrity construction pedestrian bridge over the Brisbane river, seen from the Gallery of Modern Art Detail of the tensegrity structure
February 8, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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Land bridges, Malbork Castle

The castle is surrounded by a dry moat, which has a number of bridges
#SensoryArt #bridges
#photography #landscape #architecture #EastCoastKin
A covered timber bridge into Malbork Castle An open timber bridge into the castle A fortified brick bridge into the castle
February 8, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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Venice, bridges

Various bridges in Venice;
#SensoryArt #bridges
#photography #landscape #venice #EastCoastKin
Accademia bridge taken through a window in the museum A gondola passing under one of the innumerable bridges in Venice Timber bridge in Venice Ponte della Paglia and lagoon seen from the Bridge of Sighs
February 8, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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River Arno bridges

Seen from the Ponte Vecchio
#SensoryArt #bridges
#photography #landscape #Arno #Florence #EastCoastKin
View of several of the bridges over the Arno in Florence, seen through a window of a shop on the Ponte Vecchio
February 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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London Bridge

This natural arch collapsed some years ago now; this is a colour transparency from a motorcycle tour I did from Adelaide around Tasmania long ago. One of my companions rode over and is pictured.
#SensoryArt #bridges
#photography #landscape #nature #GreatOceanRoad #gift #EastCoastKin
The natural arch nicknamed "London Bridge", part of the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria.
February 8, 2026 at 5:34 AM
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Story Bridge, Brisbane

#SensoryArt #bridges
#photography #landscape #urban #architecture #gift #EastCoastKin
The Story Bridge, Brisbane, seen from Howard's Wharves The Story Bridge used as the launching point for Riverfire fireworks
February 8, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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Good Morning
#Stunday #ClassicMono #ImageAndVerse

No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
—John Donne

...It is Margaret you grieve for
—Gerard Manley Hopkins

(whole of both in ALT)

#photography #BaldKnob #landscape #gift #EastCoastKin
An apparently wooded island, floating in the mist (Jade Warrior fans) in the Mooloolah Valley. However it's not really an island... No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. MEDITATION XVII Devotions upon Emergent Occasions John Donne Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #sunshine

"You're sitting right there, I'm standing right here. You're sitting right there, and I miss you, babe". Acceptance, David Gray

#photography #SelfPortrait #selfie #gift #EastCoastKin
A single ray of just-risen sunshine illuminates the trunk of a large fig tree, while everything around is in shadow. The shadow of the photographer, alone, is thrown very clearly on the trunk.
February 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #sunshine #ColorADay #GreenSat
#smArtist #abstract #patterns

A repost, but one of my personal favourite subjects, sunlight through leaves

#photography #gift #EastCoastKin
Sunlight transmitted and filtering through green leaves.
February 7, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #sunshine
An interesting subject, since every daytime photo includes it...
So you think, hmm, presence, absence, reflected, refracted, transmitted
#photography #landscape #urban #art #light #shadow #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin
Morning mist in the wooded Mooloolah Valley. The sunlight casts long, long shadows from trees on the ridges into the white mist below, which glows in the almost horizontal dawn light. Sunlight reflections on water, a constellation under us not over us. Part of a particularly intense rainbow. Blue light transmitted through the windows of Casa Batló in Barcelona. This was taken with a P910i phone camera, 640x480 resolution, leading edge in its day :-)
February 7, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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Good Morning!
Caloundra from Bald Knob

#photography #landscape #sunrise #art #abstract #gift #EastCoastKin
An almost abstract sunrise, orange on black, the sky grading from deep burnt orange to light yellow, the sea a black horizon, and the loom of the land given some form by pinpoints of houselights and streetlights, still in darkness.
February 6, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #backlitbeauty

Australasian darter, White-bellied sea-eagle, Ibis, crow
#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #darter #eagle #ibis #crow #gift #EastCoastKin
Australasian darter silhouetted against sunset, Kakadu White bellied sea eagle soaring over the sea at sunset Ibis flying home to roost, silhouetted at sunset, Kakadu Torresian crow leaving a tree
February 6, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social
theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #birds&berries

I'm using a generous definition of "berry"...
3 of 3 Cockatoos
#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #cockatoo #EastCoastKin
Red-tailed black cockatoo taking off with a fruit in its beak A large flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos stripping a tree of fruit A red-tailed black cockatoo eating gumnuts Red-tailed black cockatoo leaving after eating gumnuts - one gum nut flying through the air above it...
February 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social
theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #birds&berries

I'm using a generous definition of "berry"...
2 of 3 Lorikeets, of course
#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #lorikeet #EastCoastKin
Lorikeet feeding on umbrella tree fruit Lorikeet taking off after feeding on umbrella tree fruit Lorikeets arguing, despite a superabundance of umbrella tree fruit A pair of lorikeets feeding on palm fruit with total disregard for gravity
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM