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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
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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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@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
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@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #birds&berries

I'm using a generous definition of "berry"...
1 of 3 Figbirds
#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #figbird #EastCoastKin
Northern variant of the Australasian figbird Female figbird about to eat Female figbird in tulipwood SEVEN figbirds over and in a giant fig tree Maybe more...
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Good Morning
South gully, Bald Knob

#photography #landscape #scape #ForestFriday #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
Heavily timbered south gully at the Bald Knob property. At various times I saw foxes, cows and wallabies down there...
February 6, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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Good Morning for late risers!
Ibis and moon

Still over the moon...
#photography #birds #ibis #moon #nature #wildlife #gift #EastCoastKin
An ibis lit by golden-hour light, its wings curved on a downstroke, is captured as it flies over the gibbous setting moon.
February 5, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BackyardBirds

These were all taken in the Bald Knob backyard...
Partial list in the ALT
#photography #birds #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
alectura-lathami, alisterus-scapularis, black-headed-cuckooshrike, brown-cuckoo-dove, cacatua-galerita, chalcophaps-indica, columba-leucomela, coracina-melanoptera, cracticus-tibicen, currawong, dacelo-novaeguineae, dicrurus-bracteatus, eastern-yellow-robin, emerald-dove, eolophus-roseicapilla, eopsaltria-australis, forest-kingfisher-incintus, galahs, grallina-cyanoleuca, green-catbird, king-parrot, kookaburra, lewins-honeyeater, macropygia-amboinensis, magpie, magpie-lark, meliphaga-lewiniii, myiagra-inquieta, myzomela-sanguinolenta, pacific-baza, pale-headed-rosella, petroica-rosea, pigeon, platycercus-adscitus, rainbow-lorikeet, rainforest-pigeon, restless-flycatcher, rose-robin, scaly-breasted-lorikeet, scarlet-honeyeater, scrub-turkey, silvereye, spangled-drongo, strepera-graculina, sulphur-crested-cockatoo, tawny-frogmouth, todiramphus-macleayii-incinctus, trichoglossus-chlorolepidotus, trichoglossus-moluccanus, wampoo-fruit-dove, white-headed-pigeon, yellow-tailed-black-cockatoo, Zanda-funerea, zosterops-lateralis,wedge-tailed-eagle,
February 5, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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Secret denunciations, Doge's Palace
Post your denunciation in the mouth...

"Secret denunciations against anyone who will conceal favours and services or will collude to hide the true revenue from them."

#PalacesAndGardens #SecretSpaces
#photography #travel #Venice #history #politics #EastCoastKin
A letterbox in the wall of the Doge's Palace, Venice, in the form of a grimacing face with an open mouth, which is the opening. Under is written "Secret denunciations against anyone who will conceal favours and services or will collude to hide the true revenue from them." A place to anonymously denounce anyone guilty of peculation. The interior view of the secret denunciation letterbox, with two sets of doors into the box, the outer one with a lock. The opening to the outside is visible through the open doors.
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Good Morning!
Bald Knob 060430

There is always light...

#photography #landscape #sunrise #rays #ClassicMono #gift #EastCoastKin
The image is predominantly dark, with an almost black silhouetted trees in the foreground and dark, rolling plains behind, ending at dim, flat horizon. Overhead the sky is a little lighter, but again a fairly uniform dull grey, except about two thirds of the way down there is a break, and rays of sunlight are streaming through, from vertical to heavily slanted, illuminating the scene and bringing promise of light and day.
February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Peter Barnes
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Thank you for this beautiful light show. Saved my day 🧡

#photography #nature #sunset #landscape #gift #eastcoastkin
A sunset behind silhouetted pinetrees and leafless trees. The sky is dark gray higher up with strokes of brightly lit orange clouds and some dotted wispy clouds above. Would make a beautiful painting.
February 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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"Pretentious? Moi?"

#FebruArty2026 #fancy
#photography #night #urban #street #architecture #rococo #baroque #MissingPalace #gift #EastCoastKin
An extraordinarily elaborate and rococo front gate on an otherwise simply-architected suburban house. Except for scale, they wouldn't be out of place on a palace.
February 4, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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"Too much eye of newt! Now look at us..."

#WackyWednesdayArt
#photography #birds #crows #ClassicMono #HighKey #art #patterns #gift #EastCoastKin
Three Torresian crows perched in a roughly triangular formation, one horizontal, one vertical and one upside down.
February 3, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Thunder Creek Falls, South Island NZ

#WaterfallWednesday
#photography #Coolpix #landscape #portrait #nature #gift #EastCoastKin
Thunder Creek falls in Mount Aspiring National Park, Haast river.
February 3, 2026 at 11:40 PM